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Avalon on track to surpass goals for biometric time clock sales

Thursday, October 2, 2008

Under a new agreement Avalon Technology Group, a developer of biometric technology, will become the sole provider of biometric devices an IT distributors that supplies many international companies with hardware and software. Avalon did not release the name of the supplier.

This new agreement set Avalon ahead of schedule for their goal of $50 million in sales for their biometric time clocks. The agreement was the third for Avalon this fiscal quarter. [end] 

Following issues with fraudulent employee time sheets at the Municipal Golf Course, Henderson, Kentucky’s city auditor, Mac Neel, has recommended the implementation of biometric-based time and attendance systems as part of his presentation of the city’s annual financial report, according to a Courier Press article.

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The Huntsville, Ala. school district is conducting a pilot program that will track when and where students get on and off the bus. Currently, three schools–an elementary, middle and high school–are involved in the pilot.

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2012 is predicted to become a “tipping point” for RFID technology in the retail sector, according to a new study from the VICS Item-Level RFID Initiative (VILRI).

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Retail operations are finding biometric point-of-sale systems that are used for both tracking employee actions as well as for time and attendance are a great tool in fighting inventory shrink and labor fraud, according to a Point of Sale News article.

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M2SYS Technologies announced its RightPunch line of biometric time and attendance tracking solution, which had already been deployed to Cal Poly Pomona Foundation, has been deployed to the California State University, Fresno Association.

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Acumen Data Systems, a developer of workforce management and business automation solutions, has announced the development of a new biometric time and attendance system with a variety of capabilities and uses.

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