| Developers: | BioLink Solutions |
| Last Release Date: | 2019/10/18 |
| Technology: | Cybersecurity - Biometric identification, Time recording |
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2019: Biotime 8
On October 18, 2019 the BioLink Solutions company announced release of upgraded version of a biometric system of accounting of working time and access control of Biotime 8.
According to the company, a system is characterized by the updated interface, working via the browser, available from any platform. Biotime 8 differs in fast work. In it is mute fast transfer on the computer of the user of marks about arrival for work or leaving from it from remote biometric terminals is implemented. Also there is a possibility of viewing photos of an event from surveillance cameras.
Essentially system architecture changed. Only the central server application is installed or updated. Then the user gets access to a system from any device at which the browser – the computer, the tablet, phone works.
Modules, usual for users of the previous version of BioTime 6, were a part of Biotime 8: employees and working schedules, reports and informing, settings and planning. And also a full, double-sided integration with 1C, and open WEB API for integration into any client solutions. At exchange with 1C there is a synchronization of data on structure of the company, the employees, employee transfers, working schedules. In 1C ready sheets are unloaded. Thus time necessary for start of a system and its input in operation is considerably reduced.
In the updated BioTime 8 work of hundreds of biometrics devices installed in different time zones is supported, the interactive map of premises with visualization of arrangement of devices which allows to control a situation from the workplace is implemented.
Work with proprietary mobile application which is intended, both for obtaining operational reports, and for use as a full-fledged mobile checkpoint with determination of provision of the employee through a geolocation is possible.
2017
Integrated biometric Morpho terminals into BioTime
The BioLink Solutions company announced on July 18 integration of biometric terminals of production Morpho into the BioTime system. Now the module of registration BioTime interacts with a set of the MorphoSmart scanners for determination of fingerprints of employees and their conversion to digital model.
Using technological capabilities of Morpho sensors the BioTime system can be connected through IP network to the Sigma system. Biometric Sigma terminals provide fast identification for access control to any premises both inside, and outside. Employees can come or leave to premises, having just touched by a finger of the built-in optical pickup of fingerprints. Data are in real time transferred to a centralized system of BioTime, and then export of data from a biometric system in 1C in the automatic mode is performed.
Antawn Grenye, the CEO and the vice president for access control, OEM & Gaming in OT-Morpho, said: "We highly appreciate our partnership with BioLink. This cooperation is perspective and gives us the chance to expand sales market in Russia and other CIS countries".
BioTime 6.5
On March 14, 2017 the BioLink Solutions company announced release of the version of BioTime 6.5. The number of reports is increased, possibilities of mobile application are expanded, communications with the BioTime servers are conducted under the HTTPS protocol.
In version 6.5:
- the number of reports, including on-line is expanded;
- further development was gained by mobile application of a time recording;
- communications between mobile application on the smartphone, the Web server and a primary server of a system of a biometric time recording are performed under the safe HTTPS protocol.
Three reports for increase in accuracy of a time recording are added:
- "The magazine of open intervals" automatically reveals mark situations the employee of arrival for work without leaving registration (and vice versa).
- "The report on changes" fixes derogations from the preset replaceable working schedule,
- "Registration of events" acquaints with all recorded events — including that which are not taken into account at a time recording (for example when during change the employee moves between the premises equipped with biometric terminals of access control).
Mobile application of a time recording gained development. Now employees can register intersection of a wireless checkpoint which coordinates are marked on the virtual map in the application. Registration by one of options: on the smartphone the PIN code is entered, the fingerprint is scanned or a selfie is taken. The location of the employee automatically is established by means of a geolocation; the events registered out of checkpoints (from the house, shop, etc.), are ignored by a system of accounting of working time.
Owners of businesses, top managers, heads of services of personnel and security, managers of an operational link (managing directors of shops, etc.) on screens of smartphones in real time can see which of employees was not, was late, came to work and is present. The relevant data are sorted by the Full Name, positions. Consolidation of employees with identical positions in groups is possible.
In version 6.5:
- there was a mechanism of group installation of absence reasons. If, for example, at once several people went to a business trip, then the corresponding absence reason can be specified for all of them at once, but not for everyone separately;
- in the module BioTime CheckPoint the Wiegand protocol is applied now.
- the opportunity of registration of data on prints of all 10 fingers of hands in the BioTime FingerPass V8 terminal is given; further two of these identifiers, data on which are brought in a biometric system of accounting of working time and access control, are selected;
- prohibition on removal of the administrator of BioTime is added;
- powers on formation of working schedules and management of politicians of accounting who set rules of application of diagrams — duration of a lunch break, an allowed time of a delay at the beginning of the working day (for example, delay are reckoned when exceeding a 15-minute timeout), etc. are separated.
 | The biometric system of accounting of working time and access control of BioTime is operated by many companies. With a release of version 6.5 customers will be added to them, and available will be provided with a management tool personnel and its working time. Konstantin Sorokin, CEO of BioLink Solutions company |  |
2016
There was a release of mobile application
On December 22, 2016 the BioLink Solutions company announced release of release of the version of the flagship product of BioTime.
On the virtual card it is possible to create unlimited number of wireless checkpoints where the employees sent on an example, in a business trip or on training will note the arrival / leaving.
Main additions:
- it is possible register arrival time for work and leaving from it, taking a selfie or scanning a fingerprint on the smartphone, the equipped corresponding sensor;
- setup of instant push-notifications on these or those events — for example, arrival/leaving is provided. If someone from employees constantly is late or leaves a workplace before the put time, on the smartphone of his head the push-notification on the misconduct fact will at once arrive;
- it is possible to create unlimited number of wireless checkpoints where employees will note arrival/leaving on the smartphone. For example, if the employee goes to training or to a business trip, on the virtual card the checkpoint at the destination forms in advance; there after arrival/departure the employee is also marked out; the correctness of a mark is checked using a geolocation.
| | BioTime became the first biometric system of accounting of working time in Russia with the mobile application. Already now many companies use it, and, undoubtedly, their number will increase with a release of the new application version, received many useful and important functions. Konstantin Sorokin, CEO of BioLink Solutions company | |
Unified register of the Russian programs
The company BioLink Solutions announced in December that biometric the system of accounting of working time and access control of BioTime developed and delivered by it is included Unified register of the Russian programs for electronic computers and databases according to the order Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications Russia of the head Nikolai Nikiforov of December No. 253 14. According to the resolution Governments of the Russian Federation of November 16, 2015 No. 1236 the domestic software products entered in the mentioned register have a priority in comparison with other developments when purchasing for the state and municipal needs.
Integration with 1C: Payroll and the personnel
On October 13, 2016 the BioLink Solutions company announced integration of software of a biometric time recording into the "1C: Payroll and personnel of public institution 8" program.
According to developers, integration provides to the enterprises and the organizations of the budget sphere a number of opportunities:
- reliability of a time recording. The employee registers the beginning/termination of the working day, a lunch break, a local business trip, other event, scanning a fingerprint which cannot be forgotten or transferred to other person.
- variety of diagrams and reports. In BioTime delivery five ready diagrams and 17 ready reports;
- integration of a time recording and access control. Biometric terminals consider working time and after biometric identification of the employee give a command for opening/closing of an electrical lock, a tourniquet, the gateway;
- mobile application for a time recording. In the order of heads the product submits operational reports with detailing on days and employees; employees can register on the smartphone the beginning/termination of the working day and this mark by means of a geolocation automatically becomes attached to a specific point on the map;
- automatic interaction of 1C and BioTime. From 1C in BioTime the information about employees (a full name, a position, an employee ID, etc.) is unloaded, and BioTime transfers to 1C data on duration of working time for payroll.
| | The biometric system of accounting of working time of BioTime already has the certificate "1C: Compatible!". Integration into the "1C: Payroll and personnel of public institution 8" program continues the strategic line on consolidation of advantages of two products — 1C and BioTime, each of which is in the lead in the segment of the market. The exact and reliable time recording is extremely important for the public institutions financed from the budget of the organizations and the enterprises, and new integration provides to customers from this sphere the convenient and functional tool for the solution of this task. | |
Mobile application of BioLink BioTime
On September 27, 2016 the BioLink Solutions company announced creation of mobile application of the BioLink BioTime system.
As the press service of vendor stated, mobile application increases efficiency of a time recording and accelerates acceptance of management decisions, it provides detailing of data on each employee in a day and month.
The application is focused owners of business, top managers, chiefs of services of personnel and security, middle managers (managing directors of shops, etc.).
Mobile application provides operational information about different abuses of regulations of an internal labor daily routine. At any time the smartphone will show which of employees came to work who did not come who was late and who is present in specific timepoint.
Detailing on each employee in a month and day is provided. Days without violations are celebrated in the calendar by green color. About delay, early goings, absence from work without reasonable excuse red color signals. Having selected the employee and day, it is possible to output detailed data how working time was used and to suggest the violator to explain the actions.
| | Mobile application increases efficiency of a time recording and significantly accelerates acceptance of management decisions. These decisions are made without delay, but not after reporting period what the sense and value of management consists in, especially at the average level — in specific shop, cafe, car service, and not just in scales of their network. In other words, mobile application releases time of heads and provides them with exact, reliable and up-to-date information. | |
There was a release of BioLink BioTime 6.3 with opportunities of a biometric time recording
On April 27, 2016 the BioLink Solutions company released the version of a biometric system of accounting of working time and access control — BioTime 6.3.
In version 6.3:
- the efficiency of identification on fingerprints is increased. These biometric identifiers unlike the card or the PIN code cannot be transferred to other person;
- development of function of a time recording and access control. Their adaptation to real management practice by personnel, including work on non-standard diagrams, in the multiple-shift mode, night time, holidays and days off is continued;
- possibilities of uniform centralized operation biometric terminals of a time recording and access control in the large companies are expanded.
Features in version 6.3:
- the module is BioTime CheckPoint;
- providers of service;
- the single graphical interface for centralized operation by terminals of a time recording and access control;
- optimization of the main component of any system of accounting of working time — working schedules and reports on their observance;
- increase in accuracy of payroll calculations and management of wage rates;
- the general growth of efficiency of use of BioTime at all stages of lifecycle of this system of accounting of working time and access control.
| | The biometric system of accounting of working time and access control of BioTime dynamically develops in several directions at once, and the release of version 6.3 confirms this steady trend. Konstantin Sorokin, CEO of BioLink Solutions company
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2015
There was BioTime Professional
On April 16, 2015 the BioLink Solutions company announced an exit at the beginning of April, 2015 to the market of the biometric BioTime Professional system[1].
Sets for sale are expected 50 and 200 users (employees).
Interest in a biometric system of accounting of working time and access control is shown by the companies operating in restaurant business, retail, construction, health care and medicine, the service industry.
For the large companies where hundreds, thousands and tens of thousands of people, work with branched territorial structure, edition BioTime Enterprise is offered.
"Staff expenses make a considerable part of costs in any business, and BioTime from the first day of operation provides fast return of investments into a human factor, providing economy of wage fund for 30 and more percent. Therefore this biometric system is in special demand in the industries where, on the one hand, the competition is high, and with another — the role of personnel in formation of added value is considerable. The first results of sales of new sets of BioTime Professional completely prove demand of a biometric time recording and access control in present difficult economic conditions" — Konstantin Sorokin, the CEO of BioLink Solutions company noted.
There was a release of BioLink BioTime 6.2 with support of Windows 10
On July 2, 2015 the BioLink Solutions company announced an exit of release of BioLink BioTime of version 6.2.
The changed properties:
- support of Windows 10,
- web module of an on-line checkpoint,
- replenishment of number of reports,
- high speed and efficiency of biometric identification,
- optimization of work of BioTime in the companies with a branched territorial and difficult organization structure.
In this version:
- support of Microsoft is provided and it is possible to take a maximum of advantages from integration of the latest versions of two products — BioTime 6.2 and Windows 10;
- there was a new web module — on-line WebClock through passage. This module does not require installation of special software and is loaded from the browser, about opinion of developers, it will be demanded on objects, remote from the central office of the company, where it is necessary to organize point of time management of arrival/departure of employees quickly;
- the number of the reports included in the package was replenished;
- processes of entering into BioTime of data on biometric identifiers — fingerprints and their further scanning at registration of time of arrival/leaving are accelerated;
- the efficiency of scanning is increased, both now BioTime even quicker and more precisely identifies employees;
- functioning of BioTime in the companies with a branched territorial and difficult organization structure — for example, in retail chain stores, networks of the enterprises of a power supply, medical institutions, car services, etc. is optimized. Data exchange between BioTime and an external environment — the 1C Platform, Axapta, other managerial and personnel systems became as a result even more effective;
- possibilities of automatic mailing of reports on e-mail are expanded (when, say, the head of department obtains every morning information on delay). For mailing of reports it is not required to start own mail server, it is possible to use and external services, the SMS about delay it is possible to send to the mobile device of the employee and/or his chief also.
Concerning the optical fingerprint scanner, employees using the web module of an online and checkpoint note arrival time for work and leaving from it (and also the beginnings/ends of other events — a lunch, a local business trip, etc.). Results of scanning will be transformed to digital model, it is impossible to recover from it the image of the biometric identifier.
The new, 17th report provides information on registration of the employee on different checkpoints and allows to automatically determine time spent by it in these or those premises — for example, at office, in a warehouse, in the dining room, the restroom. The report is included in the package at insistance of a number of the networks mentioned above operating in retail and other industries. Users of BioTime can still create own and/or change the existing reports using the designer and the designer of report forms.
Konstantin Sorokin, the CEO of BioLink Solutions company, reported: "For 10 years BioTime develops as the corporate system of a time recording and access control focused on specifics of business processes in Russia and the CIS countries. Unity of management, a combination of the centralized management to any extent of detailing of reporting data, fast and effective integration with an external environment — here that profitable distinguishes BioTime from other solutions. Now the number of these differences was filled up by support of Windows 10, the web module of an on-line checkpoint, possibility of the accelerated and even more effective biometric identification and also complex providing with information heads, middle managers, IT services, the personnel and other divisions involved in personnel management".
BioLink BioTime is compatible about "1C: Enterprise"
On December 7, 2015 the BioLink Solutions company announced obtaining the certificate "Compatibly! The system of programs 1C: Enterprise" for BioLink BioTime technology. Certificate validity period — two years.
Konstantin Sorokin, the CEO of BioLink Solutions company, noted:
- The 1C: Enterprise system is extremely popular; also the biometric system of accounting of working time and access control of BioTime was widely adopted — she is exploited by more than 6350 customers, and integration of these two products is extremely important and valuable to many of them. Their compatibility which now is again confirmed with the official certificate will provide to our customers further increase in investment soundness in IT infrastructure and in personnel. It is enough to tell that BioTime pays off for several months after implementation, and economy of wage fund makes up to 20%.
2014
As of December, 2014 the biometric system of accounting of working time and access control of BioTime was implemented by 6,350 companies, the organizations and organizations; daily more than 330 thousand chelochek register the arrival for work and leaving from it using this innovative solution.
BioTime 6.0
The BioLink BioTime system in version 6.0 opens possibilities of a time recording and access control — the functions demanded in any company (organization) irrespective of their size and a field of activity. Version 6.0 increases effective management of personnel, raises the security level at access isolation to buildings and premises, provides a comfort maximum in administration of these business processes and by that — provides fast return of investments into labor power and IT infrastructure.
In version 6.0 BioLink BioTime achievements of the innovative biometric technologies are implemented. They guarantee the perfect accuracy, absolute reliability of management information and its reliability: identification of employees is performed by unique parameters for each person — fingerprints which cannot be "forgotten" or "lent".
Key advantages of BioLink BioTime 6.0 — effective integration of biometrics into activity of the company (organization), flexibility in a time recording and access control, convenience in management of these business processes.
Effective integration of biometric technologies:
- Interaction of BioTime with the system biometric authentications of users of corporate networks BioLink IDenium. If jobs are equipped with the software of IDenium and fingerprint scanners, to keep a time recording it is possible to keep upon the user's input and output in the operating system Microsoft Windows, a blocking/unblocking of the personal computer;
- Automatic mailing to employees of SMS notifications about delay, and to heads and managers — reports on use by personnel of working time and respect for discipline (by e-mail).
Flexibility in a time recording:
- There was a designer of reports. He helps to configure quickly their appearance, is available only to edition Enterprise;
- Support of the new equipment — the USB fingerprint scanner BioLink U-Match 7.5 and the terminal of a time recording and access control of BioLink FingerPass V8.
- Function of auto-goings is optimized (automatic end of the working day or change if the employee himself did not record this event). Now auto-leaving can be fixed not only according to the standard diagram, but also depending on arrival time — we will tell, in 8 or 10 hours including within the next day;
- Fingerprint recognition of users is accelerated and is performed according to in advance configured rules of pass. If the employee has no right of pass to these premises, time for recognition of its biometric identifier is not spent.
- the flexibility of payroll is increased. Salary is calculated proceeding from an hour, day, monthly rate;
- work in overtime and night time, on holidays, during week-end is separately considered; payment for the corresponding processing can be set both in rubles, and percentage of the main rate;
- additional types of events are considered — not only arrival for work and leaving from it, but also the beginning/termination of a lunch and other breaks is fixed;
- the designer of reports allows to supplement 14 reports which are included in the standard delivery, new reports according to needs of the customer
2011
Compatibility with products 1C of versions 7.7 and 8.2
In March, 2011 1C: Payroll and the personnel 7.7" also "1C: Payroll and HR Management 8.2" was announced integration of a biometric system of accounting of working time of BioTime into the software ". Integration of the BioTime system into the most popular versions of products of 1C allows the companies to make process of accounting of a worked time even more effective, convenient and fast. The module of integration allows to import data on employees to the BioTime system and to export the most exact information on a worked time to 1C for formation of the unified T-13 Form and automatic payroll.
2010
BioTime 5.0
The BioLink Solutions company submitted the new version of a biometric system of accounting of working time and access control of BioTime 5.0 in September, 2010.
The new module of scheduling allowing to solve most flexibly and effectively problems of drawing up summary schedules of work of division, appointment to changes of employees taking into account their employment and qualification, to planning of substitution and combination of positions and also – on execution control in real time is added to BioTime 5.0. The summary schedule is developed especially for work planning of group of several employees within one or related departments.
Advantages of the module:
- drawing up summary schedules of work of division in one window
- to planning of substitution and combination of positions by workers
- execution control in real time
- visual display planned (sick-list, business trip, etc.) and unplanned (delay, absence, etc.) otsutstviye
- fast correction of changes
- possibility of employees engagement from other departments or branches
Users of BioTime Manager are given an opportunity of flexible configuration of access rights to a system that gives additional protection against unauthorized change or removal of data:
- right to training of fingerprints.
- the right to purpose of the access level to the BioTime system.
- right to registration of absence manually.
- right to manual entry of events of arrival or leaving.
The differentiated system of the rights to editing cards of the employee is implemented:
- Right to change of information
- Right to input of fingerprints
- Right to providing access to a system
Support of an advanced algorithm of recognition of prints of Enterprise + ensures effective system operation in the companies with a large number of employees.
Thanks to system implementation of diagnostics of operation of terminals and components, work with BioTime 5.0 became even more convenient and reliable.
In real time the diagnostic system monitors connection of terminals and servers, their current status and also operability of components of the program and diagnostics of Enterprise +
The employee with right of access can log into this application and find necessary information on terminals (including working in a standalone mode).
Data on operation of all terminals accumulate on the BioTime-server and are available using the new tool "Monitor of Devices".
BioTime 5.0 is the reliable and qualitative solution for the most accurate accounting of working time, safe access control to premises for the companies of any scale: from small office to retail chain stores of federal level.
The biometric system of accounting of working time and access control of BioTime 5.0 is available to the order and updating of users of the previous versions since October 1, 2010.
BioTime 5.1
In November, 2010 the BioTime 5.1 system which is completely compatible to the last 64-bit operating systems, such as Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 that provides much faster and reliable work of all system was submitted.
In the latest version the compatibility of BioTime with biometric terminals BioLink FingerPass TM, BioLink FingerPass NEO and also the card readers EM-Marine is improved. Work of the BioTime Server and Gate Server components is improved.
Thanks to comprehensive process optimization of synchronization between databases of a primary server of BioTime are also additional servers in remote branches, traffic at data transmission decreased by 400% * that provides to you not only faster synchronization, but also considerable reduction of costs for payment of traffic.
BioTime 5.2
According to developers, this version of a biometric system differs in the increased high-speed performance, reliability and convenience and also includes a number of new features.
In particular, in version 5.2 the new policy for a fixed schedule which allows to keep a time recording only on the first and last event for calendar day is implemented, ignoring all intermediate events. Thus, the company management can obtain reliable information about an exact number of hours of stay of the employee in a workplace.
The new feature of prohibition of editing data on events manually is added. This function excludes a possibility of unauthorized changes in a system about arrival/departure of workers that allows to avoid mismatch of data in BioLink BioTime and data in the reports exported to 1C or other external systems emphasized in BioLink.
At the same time, thanks to the optimized synchronization with terminals load of the server is reduced, the lock-up time of data is reduced and also loss and repeated record of events is excluded.
Thanks to new functionality it is possible to connect any webcam to BioTime 5.2 now. Capture of the photo from the camera became more convenient, at the same time there was a possibility of setup of image quality, reported in the company.
At last, the new version of BioTime offers function of access control according to the schedule for biometric BioLink FingerPass NEO and BioLink FingerPass EX terminals and also for the card reader SC-Net. Thanks to this function the employee of the company will be able to get to the premises only in the certain time set by the head.
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