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Assisted Living Meal Check-In | Know Who Eats When

In today’s assisted living communities, assisted living meal check-in plays a vital role in combining hospitality, resident wellness, and smart operations. Meals are a cornerstone of daily life — supporting nutrition, social connection, and routine — yet it can be challenging for staff to reliably know who attended each meal and who may need a timely wellness check. Cloud-in-Hand® Stratus-io Meal Check-In gives assisted living facilities an easy, resident-friendly way to track meal attendance using the same RFID key fobs or badges residents already carry for building access. Implementing RFID-based

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Building Geofence Attendance | Even Without A Building

Building Geofence Attendance – Automatic Check-in / Check-out Setup building geofence attendance easily. Employees enter and leave buildings you’ve setup  and check-in and check-out automatic. You have a job-site without a building, no problem, make a geofence around your job-site. Check-in and check-out are automatic as people enter and leave the job-site. In this post you’ll see setup up a geofence for building geofence attendance. This solution uses the Cloud-In-Hand® Stratus-io Time & Attendance solution with Remote Check-in app for iOS and Android. Why Use Building Geofence Attendance? Automated check-ins/outs

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Time Clock Uses Employee ID – Badge Has RFID – Easy Solution

Time Clock Uses Employee ID – Badge Has RFID Your Time Clock Uses Employee ID but Your RFID badge has a different number. Many modern time and attendance systems—like Workday, Workforce.com, Buddy Punch, QuickBooks Time (formerly TSheets) and other enterprise time clocks—use Employee ID as the required input for clock-in and clock-out. However, physical access credentials/badges use a different value for the RFID number, not the employee ID itself. This mismatch creates a common and frustrating problem: The time clock uses Employee ID, but the badge only presents an RFID

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Badge Reader for Mobile Credential Check-In & Physical Badges

RFID-NFC Badge Reader for Mobile Credential Check-In Mobile credential check-in projects often don’t fail because of technology — they fail because real environments aren’t uniform. Employees arrive with phones, watches, plastic badges, and edge cases that don’t fit cleanly into “mobile-only” solutions. If your check-in or access system can’t handle mobile wallet credentials and physical badges from the same reader, it creates friction, delays, and unnecessary support overhead. The Problem: Credential Fragmentation at the Door Most organizations operate in a mixed state: Some employees use Apple Wallet or Google Wallet

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On-Site Emergency Headcount: Accounting for Staff, Visitors & Contractors in Real Time

On-Site Emergency Headcount for Staff, Visitors & Contractors When an emergency happens, time is the most critical factor for on-site emergency headcount. Safety leaders need to know exactly who is onsite, whether they have reached safety, and who may still need assistance. Yet many organizations still depend on outdated emergency headcount processes built only around employees — leaving visitors and contractors unaccounted for when it matters most. Modern facilities are dynamic workplaces, often with multiple buildings over a large area. On any given day, your site may host: Full-time and

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Best Ridership RFID Reader – Thousands Used Daily

Best Ridership RFID Reader – idChamp® NF4x Using the best Ridership RFID reader keeps transit moving fast and efficient. That’s why you see many ridership agencies using the idChamp® NF4x smart card/NFC badge reader. You’ll also find the NF4x reads mobile credentials in Apple and Google wallet, so riders use iPhone & Android for ridership. Ridership teams like many benefits of the idChamp® NF4x RFID-NFC reader, here are a few: Reliability – Units run for years without maintenance Security – ‘Direct mode’ insures badge readers read only specified badge types

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Best iPad RFID Reader | Hardware and Apps

Best iPad RFID Reader | Scanfob® and idChamp® Brands You found the best iPad RFID reader, that also works on iPhone. First, RFID (Radio Frequency IDentification) comes in two common forms UHF (Ultra-High Frequency) and NFC (Near Field Communications). You’ll see NFC built-in to iPhone and Android devices. Typically UHF is long range, and NFC is short range, yet there are near-field UHF solutions. See this example near-field UHF solution using the Scanfob® Ultra-RE40e reader with UHF Viewfinder Antenna. iPad Wireless RFID Reader | Scanfob® Ultra-RE40e You’ll often see a common

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Track Trainings with RFID Check-in | Improve Productivity and Compliance

Track Trainings with RFID How Important is it to Track Trainings with RFID for Compliance, Productivity, and a Skilled Workforce In today’s rapidly evolving business environment, employee training is more than just a professional development tool—it’s a strategic necessity. Whether you’re in healthcare, manufacturing, finance, or tech, tracking employee training is essential not only for regulatory compliance but also for boosting productivity and ensuring your workforce skills to drive innovation and growth. Track Trainings with RFID to achieve these goals. Compliance: Protecting the Company from Legal and Financial Risks Many

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Emergency Headcount Via Access Control

Emergency Headcount Via Access Control | Hartmann-Odyssey Do emergency headcount via access control systems with Cloud-In-Hand Emergency Headcount integration to the ACS. Here you see Hartmann-Odyssey Access Control System (ACS), other ACSs are similar. Contact Serialio.com to see how this works with your Access Control System. Set Access Control System In Cloud-In-Hand Stratus-io Emergency Headcount First open your Cloud-In-Hand® Stratus-io Emergency Headcount account and open ACCOUNT > ACCOUNT SETTINGS. Next verify your access control system (ACS) is selected in the Emergency Event Data drop-down, this is enabled for you by

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Visitor Contractor Safety Agreement on Check-in

Visitor Contractor Safety | Agreement and ID capture You ensure the safety of all individuals visiting on-site with your visitor & contractor safety program. Validating rules and guidelines on-site insures compliance requirements, and is a non-negotiable. Using good visitor & contractor check-in software, you meet these needs without adding burdensome workloads to staff. Visitor’s check-in seeing the safety form, and agreement signature is stored securely on the cloud for your review and compliance. Finally the visitor & contractor safety kiosk prompts for their ID badge and stores this securely on

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