Where's My Staff-Real Time

It is an attendance app that can replace the traditional attendance machines. It uses the NFC technology founded in smart phones, to convert these phones into an identity cards. Also you can use this attendance app as GPS locator, so you can locate and track your employees, colleagues who work outside the company. Who is Where’s My Staff for? For every organization, planning to implement a low cost alternative attendance management system, that is capable of internal/external employees tracking and scheduling. A brief explanation of Where’s My Staff Where’s My Staff is actually three-in-one attendance app. NFC attendance machine, GPS locator and Real-Time Tracker. Attendance recording system part of the App: To get advantage of all the features of this app, the account admin needs an NFC tag which is a small chip about 4cm in size and of thickness less than 1 mm, this NFC tag doesn’t need any source of power as it is passive and has its own unique code and costs around $5. You can order your NFC tag from app website. This NFC tag should be attached in a specific place in the company and all the employees you wish to track their attendance must tap or pass their mobile phones onto this NFC tag from a distance up to 3cm upon arriving, which will be automatically recorded. The activation and running of this attendance app is quite easy, all the account admin has to do is create an account on the app’s website, and introduce the basic information of the organization and its geographical location, then insert the NFC tag’s code. Moreover, employees’ accounts should be created in order to track them, and then choose the way of tracking whether through NFC, GPS, both or Real-Time. Afterwards, all the employees must download the attendance app to their mobile phones and activate the app through entering their private code (issued by the admin himself) and as soon as the activation is verified the attendance app is ready to be used. “Locating the Positions” or "Tracking the trajectory" part of the app: As previously mentioned, but with the ability to actually discard the NFC tag. Features of “Where’s My Staff” attendance app: • It's an NFC based tech, In case the NFC feature is not supported by the mobile phone, the app automatically switches to QR technique. • It works through GPS, where employees can be tracked only upon their consent. • Ease of use, as the app consists of only one button. • Slight consumption of the mobile’s energy. • Ability to use the app offline, in which the information will be stored until it’s connected to the Internet • The employee will not be able to manipulate the mobile phone’s time settings, where the app uses the time of the company provided by the attendance app and not the mobile phone’s itself. • Privacy Policy, in which any employee can be tracked through GPS only upon his consent. Based on that, no one, even the admin and the producing company, can track or violate the privacy of any of the employees. (All information is confidential and secured by the privacy security systems of iOS) • All information is securely stored on cloud so that the admin may log in and perform adjustments and see attendance detail from anywhere all over the world. • Offers 9 comprehensive reports, with several layouts, including a Real-Time Path report. • Export Reports to Excel • There will be continuous usage of GPS while user is checked in:Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life. Benefits of “Where’s My Staff” app: • Cheaper than other systems. • No need for tools or equipment except the NFC tag • No need for permanent internet connection