<div>MapMyIndia has been working with the Ambala Municipal Corporation for mapping services projects since the last four years. During this period, the corporation would often raise concerns about their inability to track their 1,200 safaai karmchaaris who work across different locations in Ambala. This also led to the inability to hold anyone accountable in case work was not duly performed, which usually involves cleaning the roads and clearing the garbage dumps every day. </div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></div><div>That got the team at MapMyIndia thinking and in four months they developed a GPS Guided Biometric System to help them track their employees who work on the field. The main innovation in this product is that for the first time in India there is a biometric attendance system that can also track the location, claims Rishin Kalra, Associate VP at MapMyIndia. </div><div> </div><div>This product is a mix of hardware and software comprising of handheld GPS-enabled biometric machines, fixed biometric machines, attendance software and MapmyIndia maps. Some of the technologies integrated in the system are fingerprint identification, bio-metrics, digital mapping and navigation software. </div><div> </div><div>All the information of the employee – his fingerprints, name, contact, department and even the place of work is pre-fed into the system. The employee can then mark the attendance when he reaches the designated area and then swipe again at the time of leaving. Every time the attendance is marked, the GPS location from the device is captured and sent to the server. In the backend, this attendance is checked if the right person has marked his attendance from the area allotted to him. If all the details are correct, the attendance is marked as valid. This helps in making the attendance system transparent and also in calculating the time spend on the job. </div><div> </div><div><img src="/image/image_gallery?uuid=354d873e-a6e0-465a-930b-89111dea1e99&groupId=36166&t=1429782227648" width="640" height="160" vspace="1" hspace="1" align="middle" alt="" /><br /><br />This move is well timed with Modi government’s new initiative to track the attendance of employees in government organisations using their Biometric Attendance System (BAS) system. Due to the success of this association, MapMyIndia is in talks with the Municipal Corporation of Gurgaon and also with the government of Himachal and Punjab for deployment of GPS Guided Biometric System in the organisations there. <br /><br />Rakesh Verma, Managing Director, MapmyIndia comments, “Once the benefits of GPS Guided Biometric System start showing, I am confident that other municipalities across the country will be encouraged to adopt this ground breaking solution and that will help them take forward the promise of Prime Minister’s Swacch Bharat Abhiyaan.”</div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div>
