Construction site time recording - time management in harsh environments
Requirements
Fast on-site booking, robust devices and flexible software tailored to construction, controlling and personnel. Construction site time recording that meets your requirements - precise, simple, customizable. But what exactly does a modern solution need to be able to do?
Hardware
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Working times on a construction site are recorded at particularly robust terminals or directly mobile on a smartphone, tablet or computer. You can find out more about these time recording options here.
Time is money - this statement is probably truer in the construction industry than in any other. Alongside materials, the working time of skilled workers is the most valuable resource. This makes it all the more important to record this as accurately as possible with a construction site time recording system. At the same time, it should only take a few moments for workers on the construction site to book their times and save the HR department or controlling department a lot of work thanks to individually adaptable processes. The ideal solution for construction site time recording is therefore one whose very robust and mobile recording devices can be operated quickly and intuitively and whose software can be flexibly adapted to the needs of the company.
Recording on the site (hardware)
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| ⇒ Simple and robust |
Evaluation in the office (software)
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| ⇒ Flexibel und individualisierbar |
As a result, the company is looking for a device that is as robust as possible so that employees can identify themselves quickly and easily in order to send their come and go bookings.
As there is usually no internet and electricity is not always available on construction sites, it must also have a long-lasting, self-sufficient power supply and be able to be put into operation without cabling or other effort. It must also send the booking data to the construction site time recording software.
Advantages at a glance
- Robust working time recording (IP65) with RFID reader and long-term battery (approx. three years)
- Secure transmission of all bookings via mobile radio
- Easy to use without installation and maintenance work
- Evaluation via central software
With the Chronos G2, we offer you an exclusive device that fully meets these requirements and has been specially developed for mobile time recording in harsh environments. Touching the come/go symbol wakes the device from energy-saving mode and activates the RFID reader for the corresponding booking. The employee then identifies themselves with an RFID transponder on the device.
The Chronos collects the recorded bookings and transmits them to the central time recording software via mobile radio at individually definable times. With one transmission per day, the G2's replaceable battery lasts for around three years.
As an alternative to a separate terminal, construction site time recording can also be used mobile via telephone, tablet or computer.
Employees can log in via a website and submit their clock-in, clock-out and off-site bookings there. Such a web portal also allows employees to apply for leave and view their balances (e.g. overtime, vacation days, etc.).
Advantages at a glance
- Use of existing cell phones
- Intuitive operation
- Display of overtime and vacation requests
- Evaluation via central software
The IDICS Desktop Web from the INCA® brand is one such software solution that runs on iOS, Android and Windows. After logging in to the portal, employees only need to select and submit their desired booking. The booking is forwarded to the central software for construction site time recording and processed in real time.
The advantage of this solution is that the company telephones, which are often available anyway, can be used for construction site time recording.
While the operation of construction site time recording should be quick and easy for the workers on site, the software in the background has completely different requirements. Simply collecting time balances is only sufficient in very few cases.
In addition to statutory and other breaks, it must above all be possible to map shift and overtime regulations. It must also be possible to take into account shift and public holiday bonuses for work in other regions in the software for construction site time recording.
Advantages at a glance
- Automated processing of time bookings
- Automatic calculation of breaks and bonuses
- All common working time models can be mapped
- Integrated vacation and absence planning
The recorded time pairs should be automatically calculated and evaluated according to the stored rules and reports should also be able to be automatically sent to the employee if desired. It would also be desirable to be able to plan vacations in this software.
Last but not least, the system must of course be audit-proof and work in compliance with customs regulations. In addition, it should be possible to expand the system quickly and easily in terms of both the number of people and technology managed and its functions.
The IDICS time recording software from the INCA® brand is a powerful tool for these purposes, which also supports the mobile terminals described above and mobile construction site time recording via the web. Stationary terminals for the office can also be connected to the system andaccess control can also be carried out using this software. Employees from the HR department, controlling or management log on to the construction site time recording system via software on their PC and have immediate access to all relevant information.
Further information on our IDICS time recording and access control software can be found here
The system for construction site time recording can be operated either with mobile devices via the web, with the mobile Chronos terminals or a mixture of the two. With Chronos, the time bookings are recorded at a terminal and transmitted via mobile radio to a portal that forwards the information to the time recording software. When recording on a cell phone, the times are forwarded to the construction site time recording software via a web server.
In both cases, the construction site time recording software processes the bookings according to the stored models and exports the desired evaluations by email or via interfaces.
Such a system for construction site time recording can be operated both as a cloud solution in our ibes AG data center and as an on-premise solution directly at the customer's premises. While a cloud solution offers the advantage that the customer never has to worry about maintaining the hardware or updating the software and can always access the latest software version, a solution hosted at the customer's premises is less dependent on a network connection and may be somewhat cheaper.
You have the choice between two different price models that can be perfectly adapted to your requirements. We offer you the choice between full-service rental and purchasing the system.
With full-service rental, you have no initial costs, just a monthly fee for renting the software and hardware. You use a hosted time recording system that we operate for you in our data center. As part of a training course, we work with you to set up all the working time models for your construction site time recording system, which you can then operate via a web login.
If you have a large number of employees in your company, if you already have employees working on payroll accounting or if you would like to retain full control over construction site time recording yourself, it makes sense to purchase the system. We will be happy to provide you with a personalized offer.
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At the heart of our systems is always our comprehensive, modular access control and time recording software, to which we connect only the most modern hardware components. As a great deal of know-how and experience is required to manufacture our hardware, we produce a large part of the technology ourselves. Our in-house developments include, for example, our terminals, controllers and tracking devices, including the portal. We source the remaining components from leading manufacturers with whom we have long-standing partnerships.
Our customers include many medium-sized companies and educational institutions, as well as corporations such as Verbundnetz Gas AG and RWC.
We would be delighted to welcome your company among our customers in the future.
