Contact Name: Jana Lasch, Ingersoll Rand Security Technologies: 317-810-3791
Contact Name: Tom Brigham, Brigham Scully: 207-941-1100
Data Management Inc. Introduces Customers to
New Schlage Biometric HandPunch GT-400
Provides New, Enhanced, Cutting-Edge Biometrics / 20% Smaller
CARMEL, IND. – December 1, 2009 – Ingersoll Rand Security Technologies today announced
that Data Management Inc., the manufacturer of TimeClock Plus employee time keeping
software, has taken employee tracking to the next level by adding the Schlage biometric
HandPunch GT-400 terminals to its integrated time and attendance solutions. The new
terminals are 20 percent smaller than previous hand geometry units yet include a large ATMstyle display. Eight programmable soft function keys provide increased ease of use. The new
unit comes standard with an Ethernet connection to greatly reduce installation and
communication costs by taking advantage of a company’s existing data network.
The HandPunch GT-400 is extremely user-friendly, providing increased user
acceptance. The platen features a printed hand outline to ensure accurate hand placement
while punching. The platen, keypad and function keys of the HandPunch GT-400 are all infused
with an antimicrobial agent to ensure protection through the punching process.
The terminal’s ATM-style interface and large bright 3.8-inch display generate efficient,
accurate, flexible and dynamic data collection. With it, employees can easily follow prompts.
Using keys in association with the display, the HandPunch GT-400 provides information like an
ATM. As the user enters one piece of information, the terminal asks for the next input.
Using these eight programmable soft function keys surrounding the display,
administrators can create the validation tables, multi-level promptings, decision menus, and
punch reviews that meet their specific requirements. Function keys can be changed
dynamically. There is also a built-in relay for ringing a bell or locking a door.
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The HandPunch GT-400 biometric terminal can be configured to meet virtually any
networking need or online operation with its standard 10/100 Ethernet connectivity, eliminating
the expense of installing new cabling and accelerating data processing time.
Using biometrics to automate the collection of time and attendance data can reduce
buddy punching (one employee clocking in or out for another), manual data review and
correction time, and payroll error. HandPunch terminals, which use hand geometry to increase
reliability and reduce privacy concerns over fingerprint and other biometric technologies, are
used in more biometric time and attendance systems than any other biometric technology. Over
6 million people throughout the world clock in and out of work with a hand geometry reader.
Deployed properly, the Schlage hand reader can deliver a payback in fewer than nine months.
For more information on time and attendance using the HandPunch terminal, interested
parties can go to www.biometrics.schlage.com.
About Data Management Inc.
Data Management, Inc. develops time and attendance solutions for employee labor tracking, providing
solutions that range from Enterprise class organizations with tens of thousands of employees to growing
businesses with fewer than 10 employees. The company was founded in 1988 with the mission of
designing, developing, and marketing high quality time and attendance applications to help employers
manage, control and report employee labor in real-time, rather than allowing the capture of flawed
employee data to be delivered later as with less sophisticated polling-type time clocks. Since 1994, DMI
has deployed hand geometry in multiple applications, including time and attendance, while pioneering the
use of true “real-time” hand scanner operations.
About Ingersoll Rand Security Technologies
Ingersoll Rand’s Security Technologies is a leading global provider of products and services that make
environments safe, secure and productive. The sector’s market-leading products include electronic and
biometric access control systems; time-and-attendance and personnel scheduling systems; mechanical
locks; portable security; door closers, exit devices, architectural hardware, and steel doors and frames;
and other technologies and services for global security markets. Website is
www.securitytechnologies.ingersollrand.com.
Ingersoll Rand Security Technologies is a sector of Ingersoll-Rand Company plc, a global provider of
products, services and solutions to industries as diverse as transportation, manufacturing, food retailing,
construction and agriculture. For more information, visit ingersollrand.com.
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available at www.brighamscully.com. Click Photo Downloads/Ingersoll Rand Security
Technologies – Locking Systems and Software.
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