All companies and employees understand the requirement for time and attendance monitoring. Employers want to know that their employees are actually showing up for work. If a company work a flexible time policy then employees want it accurately recorded when they are actually in the building so that the can get the maximum benefits.
But there are other uses for this type of technology other than the obvious ones related to actual time worked. A big focus in the modern world is the problem of global warming and we are all being urged to reduce green house gas emissions and our personal carbon footprints. But just how do we achieve this?
The focus of modern office construction is all related to reduction of CO₂ emissions. Building regulations are becoming constantly stricter to make buildings more efficient. New technologies are employed to make heating and cooling systems more fuel efficient. Despite all these efforts to make the building lean and green there is however one factor that cannot be controlled: the building occupants. If people insist in turning heating thermostats up of turning air conditioning down further no amount of cleaver engineering will make a building work at its best. So what can be done to overcome this problem?
The simplest solution is to let people know what the impact is of their actions. From the building management system it is possible to know what the fuel consumption and plant performance is in real-time. The time and attendance system can identify how many people are actually in the building. With this simple data collection it is a simple matter to work out the carbon emissions per occupant. If this information is then given back to the building users in a real-time display they can clearly see the consequence of their actions.
At P&Q we can provide all sorts of access control ant attendance monitoring systems and perhaps help save the planet.