Nohmad iButton Terminal

Nohmad iButton Terminal

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Economic to install and easy to use, the Nohmad provides employers
with an instant snapshot of where their workers are at any given moment.
The worker either swipes their finger or places their token – about the
size of a pound coin, and just as robust – against the base station.

The information confirming the identity of the employee and the date
and time of their arrival or departure, is then sent to a designated server
where the data is recorded and can be analysed as required.

Traditional attendance terminals operating in real time generally need
to be connected to a physical communications network, often the user’s
LAN. The Nohmad does not.

These advantages, along with its modest costs, make it an ideal device
for industry sectors supplying low margin services across multiple sites
that also require both accurate and immediate attendance records.

How it works

The Nohmad Terminal brings together a variety of modern technologies.
Employee identification is provided either by the use of an iButton™
or a Fingerprint Swipe reader, linked to GPRS wireless network used
by mobile phone users worldwide.

GPRS is a data service available to users of GSM (Global System for
Mobile Communications). Unlike a normal phone call, GPRS connections
are 'always on' and are charged by the amount of data transferred
instead of the length of time the call is made for.

This is ideal for a real-time device like the Nohmad, where data has
to be sent to the host immediately but occurs at irregular intervals.
Each iButton™ or fingerprint credential has a unique and unalterable
identity which is used by the Nohmad to identify individuals using the
system. A user simply touches their iButton™ or swipes their finger onto
the Nohmad and the credential is read instantaneously. Visual and audio
indicators provide user feedback.

The Nohmad adds the current date and time to the user's ID and sends
this data as a TCP/IP message to a host server, anywhere in the world.
The information is usually available for processing within moments.

If the GPRS network is temporarily unavailable, Nohmad stores the data
in internal memory and then sends the stored data as soon as a network
connection is re-established.

• Options

  External Aerial, 2Mb SIM card