Complejo Agroindustrial Beta Plants Ingersoll Rand
Peruvian Company Eliminates Problems with Cards; Improves Record-Keeping
April 12, 2007
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
CAMPBELL, CALIF. – April 12, 2007 – – Ingersoll Rand Security Technologies today announced that Complejo Agroindustrial Beta, a Peruvian grower of fruits and vegetables for export to the USA and Europe, is using 29 Ingersoll Rand Recognition Systems HandPunch 3000 terminals in a 2000 acre field to record time and attendance, job functions and other data from its 3,000 workers. HandPunch readers automatically take a three-dimensional reading of the size and shape of a hand and verify the user’s identity in less than one second.
“Complejo Agroindustrial Beta was losing money on this project, in which land is being reclaimed from the desert, due to inaccurate payroll entries,” reports Juan Carlos Merino-Reyna Pazos, general manager of Identitronics SAC (www.identitronics.com) a member of the Ban-Koe Companies, the integrator of the project. “They couldn’t control hours posted in the field and were concerned about buddy-punching, in which one employee clocks in or out for another.
“To rectify this, the company didn’t want to use cards for identification because they would get lost or forgotten. With cards, it was estimated that approximately five percent, or 150 workers, a day couldn’t or wouldn’t punch in for one or another reason, resulting in a need for a department of typists to simply input their data. We selected hand geometry because people don’t forget their hands and fingerprint readers can’t read adequately in an agricultural environment.”
The HandPunch terminals were installed in the fields, within 1x1x2 meter enclosures, in November of 2006. The 3000 people who work the land live around the 2000-acre property and approach it from a number of entrances. Once on the field, the workers go to the crop assigned to them for the day – one of up to 30 different crops, from asparagus to oranges – and clock in with their hands, using the HandPunch terminal. They then use one of the special function keys to punch in a code that identifies what they will be doing – seeding, harvesting, applying fertilizer, etc. – as each job carries a different pay rate.
As a result, management now knows which crop they are working on by the number of the HandPunch terminal and the specific job they are doing, based on the code input. When the workers are done or go on break, they use the hand readers to punch out. In this way, management knows the time they have worked.
Since there is no electricity in the field, the HandPunch terminals work off of 12V car batteries. Information is gathered with a laptop and downloaded to the main computer in Lima.
“We have had no problems,” adds Merino-Reyna. “The data the company gets is now real. In fact, Complejo Agroindustrial Beta has just bought an even larger 7000 acre field being reclaimed from the desert and plans to install Ingersoll Rand Recognition Systems HandPunch terminals throughout it also.”
Ingersoll Rand Recognition Systems was named a recent recipient of the Application Market Penetration Leadership Award for access control and time and attendance applications in Frost & Sullivan’s study, World Biometrics Market. Website is www.recognitionsystems.ingersollrand.com.
About Ingersoll Rand Security Technologies
Ingersoll Rand’s Security Technologies Sector 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.securitytechologies.ingersollrand.com.
Ingersoll Rand is a leading diversified industrial company providing products, services and integrated solutions to industries ranging from transportation and manufacturing to food retailing, construction, and agriculture. With a 135 year-old heritage of technological innovation, we help companies worldwide to be more productive, efficient and innovative. In every line of our business, Ingersoll Rand enables companies and their customers to create progress.
NOTE TO EDITORS: For a downloadable, high-resolution photograph of a HandPunch in the Peruvian field, go to www.brighamscully.com. Click Photographs/Schlage Recognition Systems.
For more information…
Jon Mooney
INGERSOLL RAND RECOGNITION SYSTEMS
408-341-4100
jon_mooney@irco.com
Tom Brigham
BRIGHAM SCULLY
818-716-9021
tbrigham@brighamscully.com
SRS281-041107
CAMPBELL, CALIF. – April 12, 2007 – – Ingersoll Rand Security Technologies today announced that Complejo Agroindustrial Beta, a Peruvian grower of fruits and vegetables for export to the USA and Europe, is using 29 Ingersoll Rand Recognition Systems HandPunch 3000 terminals in a 2000 acre field to record time and attendance, job functions and other data from its 3,000 workers. HandPunch readers automatically take a three-dimensional reading of the size and shape of a hand and verify the user’s identity in less than one second.
“Complejo Agroindustrial Beta was losing money on this project, in which land is being reclaimed from the desert, due to inaccurate payroll entries,” reports Juan Carlos Merino-Reyna Pazos, general manager of Identitronics SAC (www.identitronics.com) a member of the Ban-Koe Companies, the integrator of the project. “They couldn’t control hours posted in the field and were concerned about buddy-punching, in which one employee clocks in or out for another.
“To rectify this, the company didn’t want to use cards for identification because they would get lost or forgotten. With cards, it was estimated that approximately five percent, or 150 workers, a day couldn’t or wouldn’t punch in for one or another reason, resulting in a need for a department of typists to simply input their data. We selected hand geometry because people don’t forget their hands and fingerprint readers can’t read adequately in an agricultural environment.”
The HandPunch terminals were installed in the fields, within 1x1x2 meter enclosures, in November of 2006. The 3000 people who work the land live around the 2000-acre property and approach it from a number of entrances. Once on the field, the workers go to the crop assigned to them for the day – one of up to 30 different crops, from asparagus to oranges – and clock in with their hands, using the HandPunch terminal. They then use one of the special function keys to punch in a code that identifies what they will be doing – seeding, harvesting, applying fertilizer, etc. – as each job carries a different pay rate.
As a result, management now knows which crop they are working on by the number of the HandPunch terminal and the specific job they are doing, based on the code input. When the workers are done or go on break, they use the hand readers to punch out. In this way, management knows the time they have worked.
Since there is no electricity in the field, the HandPunch terminals work off of 12V car batteries. Information is gathered with a laptop and downloaded to the main computer in Lima.
“We have had no problems,” adds Merino-Reyna. “The data the company gets is now real. In fact, Complejo Agroindustrial Beta has just bought an even larger 7000 acre field being reclaimed from the desert and plans to install Ingersoll Rand Recognition Systems HandPunch terminals throughout it also.”
Ingersoll Rand Recognition Systems was named a recent recipient of the Application Market Penetration Leadership Award for access control and time and attendance applications in Frost & Sullivan’s study, World Biometrics Market. Website is www.recognitionsystems.ingersollrand.com.
About Ingersoll Rand Security Technologies
Ingersoll Rand’s Security Technologies Sector 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.securitytechologies.ingersollrand.com.
Ingersoll Rand is a leading diversified industrial company providing products, services and integrated solutions to industries ranging from transportation and manufacturing to food retailing, construction, and agriculture. With a 135 year-old heritage of technological innovation, we help companies worldwide to be more productive, efficient and innovative. In every line of our business, Ingersoll Rand enables companies and their customers to create progress.
NOTE TO EDITORS: For a downloadable, high-resolution photograph of a HandPunch in the Peruvian field, go to www.brighamscully.com. Click Photographs/Schlage Recognition Systems.
For more information…
Jon Mooney
INGERSOLL RAND RECOGNITION SYSTEMS
408-341-4100
jon_mooney@irco.com
Tom Brigham
BRIGHAM SCULLY
818-716-9021
tbrigham@brighamscully.com
SRS281-041107
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