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vipin93's avatar
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Is it possible to integrate biomatric attedence system in laravel?

Now in my app a auth user fill day, entry time, leave time mannully, but i want to make automatic with biomatric. so it is possible?

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vipin93's avatar
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can you give some idea are any blog post

hbmaddog's avatar

What kind of answer is that? What, vipin93 has never thought of that?

Those answers just absolutely suck!

"Try Google" LMFAO

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Snapey's avatar

Not really a Laravel issue is it? Unless you are going to push your finger up against the server, this is a client issue.

So, its about what type of biometric device you can obtain or use and how this data it spits out might be sent to the server.

First step would be to decide what the physical interface is likely to be

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hbmaddog's avatar

The trackingjs library does facial recognition....so you could use the camera in mobile/tablets to get biometric data...

I currently use stand-alone facial recognition at my factory...they work great, but they have no open API, if they did, we could use their hardware...it only runs about $250/unit....but you have to use their web app which, again, has no open API...bummer.

I'll play around with this library and report back.

Snapey's avatar

That unit is linked to a cloud based time and attendance service. What you want is that hardware plus a guide to the API it uses so that you can point at your server instead of their service.

Maybe you can find the hardware sold on its own somewhere (or equivalent)

jlrdw's avatar

@vipin93 are you kidding, with the enhancements Taylor has done to Laravel, I had it mowing my grass the other day. Just kidding.

Yazhini's avatar

I hope everyone here is looking for the Web based API supported biometric machines which will work as a client to your server application. CAMS API ( http://camsunit.com/application/biometric-web-api.html ) works as a client, whenever an attendance gets registered in the machine, your URL will be notified instantly.

jcmargentina's avatar

give a look at github,... there are plentty libraries to handle biometric hardware directly using PHP ... for example ... for ZK hardware.

It is very easy to integrate them with laravel ... as they are written in PHP

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Yazhini's avatar

Zklib available in github, will help you to connect the biometric machine to the machine where PHP server application is running. Whereas CAMS provides the facilities to install the biometric machines at any location, where your server is running remotely.

divpros's avatar

@hbmaddog - Unfortunately this seems to be a trending theme whenever @topvillas provides an "answer". His "answers" are rarely ever even remotely helpful.

gideon's avatar

@topvillas

You must not even believe it yourself if you deleted your comment. Yes, your answers are usually terrible. Every once in a while you do provide something useful, but not very often. I cringe every time I see you attempt to answer a question. Most of those 199, or 201 now don't know any better when they select your answer as the best answer. I've seen plenty questions where the original poster chose something completely wrong for the answer, sometimes because they just wouldn't know good code even if it came and smacked them in the face.

siangboon's avatar

most attendance system/time clock either biometric or non-biometric have they own way (own set of commands) to communicate and they do have API, i believed so, but most only have TAPI (Terminal API) which is in command line where you can telnet to communicate to the device. so you can write your own API to make use of their TAPI. Try ask the vendor.

sidikgagah's avatar

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