Key Fob Time and Attendance

Contactless key fobs are used to operate your time and attendance system. They operate using well-proven and reliable RF technology, which gives a constant read range and is unaffected by most external conditions. It also means that there is no onboard battery, so theoretically, each key fob has an infinite life and can be read an infinite number of times.

When placed within range of your time and attendance clock, the key fob will be read in under ¼ second, even if that fob is covered in oil and grease. This ensures quick clocking times and allows for fast throughput of employees, especially useful at peak clocking periods.

Your key fob time and attendance system can also be operated by proximity smart cards, which work in exactly the same way as key fobs and can be used on the same clocks and scanners.

Key Fobs

An inbuilt aerial made from copper and iron is embedded into your key fob, allowing it to be scanned by your time and attendance system. Being smaller in design, key fobs have a smaller read range than that of a smart card, but can still be successfully scanned from a distance.

Having installed numerous time and attendance systems across Scotland, we have found that most of our customers opt for the T1313 key fob. This fob has a grey plastic shell made from implant quality glass, similar to those used in the identification of pets.

All key fobs supplied by Time and Attendance Scotland have a keyring slot allowing them to be attached to a set of keys.

Key Fob Integrity

Each key fob has a microchip embedded within it that holds a unique factory encoded ID number. With up to 34 billion different combinations of ID number, there is no chance that your key fobs can be duplicated. In addition, each ID number has built-in security and integrity checks ensuring that it cannot be misread. A cross-reference list correlating the external printed fob number and the programmed ID number is also provided for easy system integration.

The combination of robustness, accuracy and speed have placed our key fob time and attendance systems at the forefront of secure, reliable attendance monitoring systems.