Advancement in technologies and innovations deliver the new solutions. This new wave of technological solutions propels Authentication to more extremes. Authentication in earlier days is one of the laborious process and inefficient to implement and maintain. Few of the earlier technologies helped to bring us Authentication systems that helped to restrict the people to access systems and allowing people who know a specific code or own a card. However, these systems are not highly secure and prone to attacks, falsify accessibility, and vulnerable to external resources.
To implement highly secure authentication requires highly complex systems that are expensive to implant and requires more hardware and software resources. Also, while implanting an authentication system involves a lot of factors like price, simplicity, user-friendly, efficiency and social accessibility. To challenge these limitations biometric systems are offering better solutions, and it is also the most effective and safe method for identifying authenticated users. It is also quite reliable because biometrics holds the unique information of each and every individual that will help in identifying accurate authenticated users by matching with the data stored in database. Due to the proficiency, effectiveness, and usefulness of Biometrics, plenty of biometric innovations such as fingerprint attendance systems, Iris scanner, face recognition systems, etc., are tiling its way towards offering better solutions.
One of those solutions is the biometric attendance system that enthralled many users. A lot of firms, schools, and institutes are replacing registers with the biometric attendance system because of its abundant benefits.
Let us look at the following part that takes us to a snapshot of advantages and disadvantages of biometric attendance systems.
Advantages of biometric attendance systems
Elimination of “Buddy Punching”: The system will restrict the users to clock-in for other users.
An Accurate Option: There is an accurate identifying of users
Growth in productivity: Biometric attendance systems will save users time, reduces staffing overhead, and provides accurate labor data for effective management of the overall organization.
Easy and Safe to Use: Biometric systems are very user-friendly that is very simple and safe to operate
It’s very convenient: The biometric solution is very convenient security solutions so there is no need for carrying cards and remembering passwords
Disadvantages of biometric attendance systems
Require integration and other hardware resources: The biometric attendance system require additional resources to implant
Environment affect measurements: In some situations the external environment or factors might affects the system
