UITM Universiti Teknologi Mara Johor

UITM is another installation we did this month with our Malaysia partner IBS. The location is Universiti Teknologi Mara Johor near Segamat and it is for staff attendance.

They have installed 5 units of FS20 Fin'Lock starting at the General Office and will be installing another 7 units per the Registrar for all the departments in the coming months. We were there to resolve an installation glitch and system is up running in no time.

Singapore Airshow 2010

Hi, got some trade visitor tickets to the airshow thanks to Eric and visited the NEW and IMPRESSIVE Changi Exhibition centre which is way out on the reclaimed land alongside the Changi Airport runway.

ST Kinetics, the weapon division of ST Engg exhibited the new and improved SAR21A. It is lighed and also allows more add-ons. Significant dfferences from the earlier SAR21.

Another interesting weapon ST Kinetics produce is the Personal Compact Weapon which is between a pistol and sub-machine gun. Light weight with a short range of 40-50m and a plastic transparent magazine. Check it out.

Well watch out for China's aviation industry! Here are two examples, first a commerical jet by COMAC model is C919 and the fighter jet model FC-1. So soon we besides buying China-made car, we will be flying in China-made jets and protected by China-made fighter planes...........

Ministry of Manpower MOM - Employment Pass Centre

This is the new MOM office for Employment Pass Centre in The Riverwalk at Upper Circular Road. If you don't know the location, it is between Boat Quay and Clarke Quay.

At this MOM centre, we installed 5 units of the FS20 for door access in their backend offices and the server room. This project is through NEC Asia completed in June 2009.

Tanjong Katong Secondary School - Fingerprint Time Attendance

Well, this installation at Tanjong Katong Secondary have a nostalgic effect on me since it is my secondary school from 1974 to 1978 when the school was in Tanjong Katong Road. During that time, there is a technical program from Sec 3 to Sec 4 and was Tanjong Katong Technical Secondary School. The old campus is now a student hostel while the tuckshop (which we used to call) is now a public food court.

Six Fingerprint units were installed in this school for whole school students' time attendance. For this installation, the server program was hosted on a separate PC from the server managed by HP allowing quick and hassle-fee installation and implementation.

These six FS20 Fin'Lock units were installed in different locations such as in the canteen, parade-square, side-gate, main block and library. Guess these TKS students will have fun and experience to use their fingers to clock in their daily attendance.

Irish Pubs using fingerprint technology

Gaelic Inns managed several Irish Pubs in Singapore including Penny Black and Murphy Pubs and has started to use fingerprint technology for their staff Time Attendance. Project is developed with inhouse IT guy.

This reference is a good example  that shows Futronic Fingerprint scanner can work well in a wet environment whereby the staff are handling drinks and chilled glasses all the time. As compared to an early deployment, Pay-By-Touch from Citibank in Zouk and other outlets, there were teething problems with wet fingers. Of course, in a pub customers fingers will be wet after getting the drinks thus other fingerprint scanners were unable to scan the wet fingers. So much on this Pay-By-Touch, as the parent company in US no longer exist.