PresenceBox-SIGFOX: Badge reader SIGFOX for RFID badges

Innovation Award at Europropre 2017

PresenceBox-Sigfox is a badge reader connected to the Internet via the SIGFOX network. It is capable of reading employees’ RFID badges, and sending real-time presence time stamps (start, end of intervention) to the server hosting your schedules.

The PresenceBox-Sigfox badge reader doesn’t require a SIM card or an electrical connection (if you fit it with a battery), and can be used for up to 1,600 clockings, which means up to several years of autonomy, depending on the number of workers and the frequency of interventions.

PresenceBox-Sigfox has been awarded SIGFOX « CLASS 0 » certification (best rating), which means that the terminal works perfectly well in all areas covered by the network, both indoors and outdoors. Visit SoftySoft on the SIGFOX partner site.

Since 2006, we’ve equipped a dozen of our service agents with SoftyShot time clocks. Despite the very average network coverage in our region (Oisans), our time clocks are automatically uploaded to the SoftyShot software.

MR RICHARD
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🛰 WHAT DOES SIGFOX MEAN, AND WHAT DOES IT HAVE TO DO WITH POINTING SYSTEMS?

SIGFOX is a data transport network using free frequency bands (868 Mhz in France). SIGFOX specializes in transporting very small amounts of information (12 bytes at most per message). For these reasons, it has the advantage over the GSM network (GPRS, 3G, 4G) of consuming very little energy and being very inexpensive. This makes it ideal for small data flows (machine-to-machine communications, sensor readings). This makes SIGFOX one of the world leaders in IOT (Internet Of Things). Since a badge reader carries very little information, SIGFOX is a wise choice for real-time attendance recording at remote sites.

🔋 IF A SIGFOX BADGE READER HAS LOW POWER CONSUMPTION, WHAT IS ITS AUTONOMY?

The PresenceBox-Sigfox badge reader can be operated with either a battery or USB power supply. With a battery, it can clock in and out 2,200 times, equivalent to clocking in and out every working day for 4 years, twice a day (at the start and end of a shift). This autonomy allows great freedom in positioning the badge reader.

⚡ARECLOCK-INS AND CLOCK-OUTS REPORTED IN REAL TIME?

Yes, the clockings are sent in real time to the Back-Office software. Of course, the badge reader must be positioned so as to pick up the SIGFOX network: to this end, SoftySoft provides a mobile application (LinkTester) that lets you check the quality of the network at the chosen position.

🏠 CAN A STAFF MEMBER CLOCK IN AND OUT AT SEVERAL SITES WITH THE SAME BADGE?

Yes, an employee can clock in at several sites with the same badge. In the Back-Office software, you create your sites. At each site where you install a badge, you record the badge’s serial number on the corresponding card. You also create your staff, and assign each of them a badge. Enter the badge identifier in the personnel file. The badge sends the following data: badge number, badge number, time stamp. In this way, the Back-Office software is informed that the personnel arrived on site (or left the site) at the time of clocking-in.

⌛ HOW LONG DOES IT TAKE TO SET UP THE SOLUTION?

The badge is available from stock. It is delivered within 48 hours. The SoftyPlanning back-office software is available immediately, as it can be downloaded from the SoftySoft website. All you have to do is place the badge reader on site.

💰 HOW MUCH DOES THE SOLUTION COST?

The price is degressive according to the number of badges: for one badge: 195 €HT; for 100 badges: 126 €HT. The cost of hosting and SIGFOX subscription is: 3.20 €HT/month for one badge, 2.30 €HT/month for 100 badges. The cost of the software depends on the number of employees clocking in and out on the various badges: in the basic version for 100 employees, the cost is 1.05 €HT per employee per month.

FEATURES

Allocating badges to employees

Assigning badge readers to sites

Real-time collection of interventions carried out

Search for archived interventions on server

Analysis of archived interventions on server

INSTALLATION ON ANDROID

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