BIOMETRIC ATTENDANCE VERIFICATION

摘要

A biometric attendance system comprises a portable device (11) (such as a personal digital assistant (PDA), laptop computer or a mobile phone) comprises a database (19), a GPS receiver (16) and a biometric sensor (17) arranged to monitor a person's voice, fingerprint, face, iris or other unique personal characteristic. The device (11) is arranged to biometrically verify the identify of a user from user records on the database (19) and to generate an event record containing the identity of a verified user, the time at which the verification occurred and the global position where the verification occurred. The event records can be downloaded onto a remote database (13) for analysis and storage. User records can also be downloaded onto the remote database (13) or uploaded.