Facial recognition
If facial recognition is enabled, the clock screen shows the camera feed instead of the badge entry screen. When an enrolled employee shows their face to the camera, the clock verifies the employee and shows clock options such as clocking in, clocking out, or changing jobs.
Employees can also press the ESC key to show the badge entry screen and use a badge number for validation instead, or press their finger on the sensor to use fingerprint validation.
If facial recognition is enabled with Swipe and Go, employees can clock in and out with no contact.
You must also set the biometric mode for your readers to Identification.
See Configuring biometric validation.
Reader configurations
If you are using reader configurations, use these configuration properties to configure facial recognition.
See Using reader configurations.
- feature.face
- Specify Y to enable facial recognition.
- feature.face.mode
- Specify NONE or IDENTIFICATION.
- feature.face.threshold
- Specify the value for the facial recognition threshold. Specify one of these
values:
- READ_BACK
- LOW
- MEDIUM
- HIGH
- feature.face.threshold.enroll
- Optionally,specify a different facial recognition threshold for enrolling new employees.
- ui.use_badge_entry_for_not_enrolled_face
- If Y, then the clock automatically switches to the badge entry screen if an employee's face is not enrolled.
Settings.conf
If you are not using reader configurations, use these properties in settings.conf to configure facial recognition.
- biometric.face_recognition
- Set to true to enable facial recognition.
- biometric.face_recognition.switch_to_badge_entry_when_not_enrolled
- If true, then the clock automatically switches to the badge entry screen if an employee's face is not enrolled.
- biometric.face_recognition.message.timeout
- This property specifies the amount of time the error message is shown if an employee's face is not recognized.