BioDesk – Desktop Fingerprint Software

Introduction

BioDesk is Fingerprint Recognition based software for Registration & Verification of employees, visitors, members etc.It can be used by offices & organizations to verify people at entrance desk to establish their secure identity.In order to use BioDesk “USB fingkey hamster” is required.For more information on Fingkey  Hamster please visit FingkeyHamster

Biodesk is the latest technology used in the market for fingerprint based recognition software systems. This system gives user hundred percent satisfaction about fingerprint based security. The main purpose of this system is to protect the organization from the theft and other malicious activities. Even this system is more secured than the other systems. Biodesk is the next generation model which is popular and versatile fingerprint reader product line. Packaged in a comfortable, ergonomic design, biodesk features the industry’s most rugged and advanced optical sensor using patented.

Use Biodesk with your choice of compatible biometric software for authentication, identification and verification functions that let your fingerprints act like digital passwords that cannot be lost, forgotten or stolen.

Applications

• Employee attendance logging
• Visitor verification
• Security Desk in Banks, Security installations
• Member verification in Clubs, member organizations

Technical  Specifications

Resolution – 500dpi
Sensing area – 13.6×16.2mm
Dimensions – 21(w)x31(l)x59(h) in mm
Encrypted data size – 400bytes
Verification time  – < 1 sec
Weight – 28g
Ambient temperature  – -40 to 60oC
Scanner type – Optical
PC interface -  USB

For User Guide please visit :  Biodesk  User Guide

Installation

Download BioDesk from http://www.bioenabletech.com/downloads/Biodesk_FP_Registration_Software/ or obtain BioDesk CD (contact sales@bioenabletech.com)
Install BioDesk from the installation CD or download by clicking on setup.exe & follow installation instructions.

After this software get installed it creates below  icon on the desktop.Double click on the exe to start the software.

Requirements for the software are:

Operating System: Windows 98 SE, Windows 2000 professional, Windows XP.
RAM: 128 MB
C.P.U: 1GHz or more
Hard disk space required: 50MB

Satrtup Screen

Password verification is required for Registering new users or changing software settings. Default password is “admin”

In this user registration module following things needs to be entered:

Userid: this is unique id for each user

Name: Enter name of the user

Groups: Create groups for the registration.

Sex: select gender of the person

Address: Enter address of the person

Emergency contact: Enter emergency contact for the user

Expires: Admin can set expiry date for the finger if he wants to enroll user as temporary user

Message: After verification of finger this message will be displayed on the screen.

Disabled: If later on after registration admin wants to disable employee verification in software then he can click on disable button

Admin: If the user wants to assign admin rights then checkbox for the same needs to be clicked.

Authentication: Here users can be enrolled in two ways. With fingerprint or with pin (password).

On the scanner user needs to place finger two times for the correct finger registration.

After successful registration for particular finger it shows the respective circle against that finger in pink icon.

After successful verification border of fingerprint image photo will get displayed in green color and it takes first record as IN and second as OUT.

For false verification fingerprint image border will be displayed in red color.

Setup Menu

Following things need to be entered for changing settings in the BioDesk software:

Organization name: Here enter name of the organization for which scanner is installed.

Machine id: give unique machine id for scanner

Identification: for 1:N matching set identification level.

Verification: for 1:1 matching set verification level for the same

Model: select model as BioScanner

Auto IN/OUT: By default this checkbox is selected. Through this setting first punch will be taken as IN and second will be taken as OUT.

Scan for every seconds: Here user will be required to set timing for auto scan mode. Suppose office starts at 9 in morning. So admin wants that between 9 – 9:05 AM scanner will get start blinking automatically, so here admin can set timing for the same

Show snaps after verification: Here user can set time in settings for showing snap of finger after verification

Optimize sorting: This setting will sort database. Ie last punch made comes in first row of database

Maintain monthly log: If this setting is clicked then in the root directory path it creates log file for the particular month after end of the month

1)Create text log file: If this setting is clicked then it creates log.txt file at root directory of installation

2)Password button: If admin wants to change his password then he can click on password button and enter new password for the same

3)View log: When admin click on this button he can see logs for the employees. Through this screen he can delete, modify logs

4)DSN: Through this screen admin can set the (DSN) Data Source Name location path for the database.

Through this screen user can set various options
Verification and identification: By default this option is ON. If these options are deselected then finger will not get verified.

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