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

October 27, 2025

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 Yet many organizations still depend on outdated emergency headcount processes built only around employees — leaving visitors and contractors unaccounted for when it matters most.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

Emergency Headcount Via Access Control

July 19, 2025

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

Attendance Roster Groups Reuse Common Rosters

April 21, 2025

Attendance Roster Groups – Easy Roster Management Simplify your roster management needs for classes, events, departments, buildings, emergency SMS-TEXT messages, and the like with Attendance Roster Groups. First setup Rosters according to your needs, then use rosters on Cloud-In-Hand® Stratus-io Time & Attendance Events. Next Rosters save time since roster groups are easily managed when making Events & Classes. Finally Rosters save time when used on Reoccurring Events. Changes to Rosters affect the upcoming Reoccurring Events (Classes, Meetings, etc.) after Rosters are updated. Make Rosters and Assign Attendees With Attendance

Fast Visitor Checkin | Scan Drivers License Barcode

January 14, 2025

Fast Visitor Checkin | Avoid Tedious Typing Avoid error-prone, time-consuming visitor name typing, scan drivers license barcode for fast visitor checkin. First your Visitor Management Software (VMS) is friendly, easy-to-use and highly efficient. Second, it supports idChamp® RFID-NFC smart card badge readers, and barcode readers with your current infrastructure. Third, it supports Scanfob® barcode readers for fast visitor checkin using drivers license barcodes. Your visitors and staff avoid slow, error-prone, tedious typing of visitor names. Visitors with driver license having PDF417 barcode simply present this, the Scanfob® brand barcode reader

Setup Geofence Location Cloud-In-Hand Stratus-io Remote Check-in

December 18, 2024

Setup Geofence Location For Location Based Check-in Check-out Setup geofence location. What is a geofence?A geofence is a specified boundary containing a location of interest, it may be a circle or polygon. First you need location based check-in check-out to know when people enter and leave a location. Next you want this done by people simply having their phones with them to act as check-in check-out badge. so they don’t need to tap-in or tap-out. Additionally you have a Cloud-In-Hand® Stratus-io Time & Attendance solution with the Remote Check-in app.

TEXT During Emergency | Group And Targeted SMS Headcount

November 20, 2024

Send SMS / TEXT During Emergency Headcount First you connect to Cloud-In-Hand® Stratus-io Time & Attendance account that has Emergency Headcount SMS option. Second you create the emergency event using the admin login with a browser, or Stratus-io app user login. Note the user login device must have permission to create the emergency event. Third start your emergency by selecting the type (fire, tornado, active-shooter, etc) from drop-down or entering your emergency name. Note before doing selected TEXT / SMS the Stratus-io app setting App-Direct SMS Reply Number, must be

Attendance Check-in App | Stratus-io Remote Check-in

October 23, 2024

Stratus-io Remote Check-in Attendance Check-in App First use the Stratus-io Remote Check-in app, the unmatched attendance check-in app. Second attendees use iPhone, iPad, or Android and check-in anywhere. Third, check-in / check-out bye simply tap. Forth assign Geofence(s) and check-in/out is automatic based on location*. Finally members send messages via SMS for Emergency events notifying the manager of emergency needs. *Opt-in for Geofence option on the account for this. Attendance Check-in App Login First get the Remote Check-in app from Appstore for iPhone/iPad or Play for Android. Next see the

SMS Emergency Headcount Setup Fast – Easy – Reliable

October 10, 2024

SMS Emergency Headcount Setup Easy, Fast, Reliable You have an Emergency Headcount Plan (aka Mustering) for emergencies to keep people safe. Here you see how easy this is with Cloud-In-Hand® SMS Emergency Headcount setup First you import your roster or enter the roster members. Second, validate mobile phone numbers. Then create your Emergency Event in case of emergency. Setup / Import SMS Emergency Headcount Roster Open your Cloud-In-Hand.com admin account, and open ORGANIZATION | MEMBERS. First you’ll need 3 things for each roster member: Name Mobile Phone Badge Number (can

Multi-Door RFID Attendance System

July 26, 2024

Multi-Door RFID Attendance System For Buildings You have a building with multiple doors and need an attendance system to know who’s onsite. First you need a multi-door RFID attendance system, but don’t want trusted people to stop at a kiosk. Secondly you want people to check-in and check-out from any building door as they enter and leave the building. The diagram below shows an overview of how the multi-door building attendance is setup.  Each building has Windows 11 PC to manage all the door readers, and for each door: Android

Geofence Check-in Android Auto Onsite Headcount

May 6, 2024

Geofence Check-in Android | Onsite Check-in Via Geofence First, you need an on-site check-in solution to know who’s onsite during an emergency. Second, you don’t want to use employee or student RFID or barcode badges to check-in and check-out. Third, people are willing to put app on their phone that will check-in & check-out when they come and go. Finally, your proven solution is Cloud-In-Hand Stratus-io Remote Check-in with Stratus-io Time & Attendance. Now you have geofence check-in Android, also know iPhones are also supported. Here is an example of

Our Testimonial

Paper sign-in sheet replaced “We now maintain reliable sign-in and sign-out records while reducing the time spent entering information into the system.” Before implementing Stratus-io Electronic Sign-in, we relied on paper sign-in sheets, which often created challenges. Handwriting could be difficult to read, and tracking accurate sign-in and sign-out times for our members was often… Read more “Replace Paper Sign-In Sheets at Community Centers”

We prisoner/inmate checking with Android NFC Gears and iScanBrowser with an in-house application at our county jail. Guards check inmates every 30 min by scanning an NFC puck by each door using built-in NFC on the smartphone. This gives us accurate records for all prisoner/inmate checks and insures compliance with inmate safety policy. This solution… Read more “Prisoner/Inmate Checking With NFC”

Our boutique private school time and attendance uses Cloud-in-Hand® Stratus-io Time and Attendance. Our school’s students scan RFID badges for attendance logging using the idChamp® NF4x RFID badge reader. It’s so simple all of our very young students easily learned and use it without effort or confusion. Stratus-io Time and Attendance program is easy to… Read more “Time and Attendance Easy-To-Use For Young Students”

Starport Technologies encodes 10 million RFID tags per month, sometimes UHF reader must ignore unwanted nearby UHF tags. Prior to encoding some UHF tags we do printing. We use Scanfob® Ultra-RE40e UHF RFID readers to quickly spot check around voided tags to insure the encoding is done to the proper tags. Scanfob® Ultra-RE40e UHF RFID… Read more “Unwanted Nearby UHF Tags Ignored Using Scanfob® Ultra-RE40e”

Sanders Roth - VP
Starport Technologies

Innova Zones was approached by a customer looking to track RFID i-Safe Tags to ensure compliance with safety gear requirements within their facility. Unsure if it was possible, we sent a tag to Serialio, who quickly and expertly helped us setup the idChamp® Smart Credential Readers to read iSafe tags. Thanks to Serialio, we have… Read more “Read RFID i-Safe Tags”

Eastland Dunavin
Innova Zones

We use SerialMagic Keys Professional Android to connect with the HPR Lite Handheld PIT Tag Reader. SerialMagic Keys Professional is exceptionally easy to use. SerialMagic Keys Professional quickly and easily posts scan RFID tags to all apps that take keystrokes. Post many types of RFID tags: ISO 11784/11785 compliant FDX-B and HDX, FDX-B Fastag, FDX-B… Read more “HPR Lite Handheld PIT Tag Reader – Android”

USGS Forest and Rangeland Ecosystem Science Center

Cloud-In-Hand Mobile Grid on iPad & iPhone is an unmatched data collection solution. Form-A-Feed uses this solution successfully for years. Serialio support has been unmatched by any supplier. The Support Team is super responsive, and the Cloud-In-Hand Mobile Grid solution always works. Mobile Grid is so reliable, when our Microsoft based solution fails, Serialio is… Read more “Unmatched Data Collection Solution – Cloud-In-Hand Mobile Grid”

Martin Tandsater
Form-A-Feed, Inc.

The Toshiba Team spent months searching for the best electronic emergency headcount software for our large facilities. Toshiba needed emergency mustering Roll Call ensuring employees, visitors, and contractors are all safe and accounted for during an Emergency. Serialio was one of many companies we reached out to, and we’re so thankful we did! The Cloud-In-Hand… Read more “Emergency Headcount Software 1-Million-Square-Foot”

Derius Goudeaux - Safety Manager
Toshiba

Our search for mobile order for sales reps and trade shows solution ended when we found Cloud-In-Hand® Mobile Order. Mobile Order is a terrific application replacing our last ordering solution.  We deployed to our outside sales staff and use it for our trade shows on iPads & iPhones.  We were up and running in record… Read more “Mobile Order For Sales Reps and Trade Shows”

Scott Bonora - Director of Operations
Phillips International, Inc.

In 2019, we needed a reliable and cost-effective method of enabling RFID scans on a tablet for a custom RFID time clock application on Windows Surface Pro we developed.  We were fortunate enough to find SerialMagic Professional and the idChamp® RFID Smart Card Badge Reader.  Serialio assisted us with the software and hardware needed to… Read more “Enable RFID Scans On Windows Surface Pro For Time Clock Application”

Russell Hopkinson - Senior Engineer