Biometric Training Programmes for Physical Access Control Companies

(24/03/2009)

While the market is increasingly becoming aware of the strengths of biometric technology and its commercial applications it continues to suffer from low product awareness (fingerprint and hand geometry continue to have the major share on the lower end of the market) and poor delivery capability.

To address this problem, Simply Biometrics recently launched biometric training programmes aimed at Time and Attendance and Physical Access Control companies for the complete range of biometric hardware including Iris, Hand Geometry, Fingerprint and Vein Recognition.

Recent market trends across both Physical Access Control and Time and Attendance market indicate increasing appetite for biometric solutions from end customers. The increasing robustness of the technology coupled with an efficient supply chain and market led prices means that the customers now benefit from low solution life cycle costs and increased operational efficiency when compared with legacy systems.

Simply Biometrics, Sales Manager Michael Connolly said “The BTP is aimed at technology companies, system integrators and consultants who want to broaden their horizons and enhance their prospects in the rapidly emerging biometrics market. The various training modules offered are designed specifically to help system integrators, security consultants and technology focused companies with ambitions of developing competence in Biometrics technology. The training modules on offer are designed for both greenhorns and experienced system integrators”.

The full range of biometric training on offer includes:

Commercial Aspects/Sales Training Module: Focus on helping sales and account managers develop a comprehensive understanding of the biometrics market and current biometric applications.

Basic System Integration and Maintenance Module: This module is aimed at installation engineers and takes a holistic look at the implementation of a biometric system including everything from planning an installation, to troubleshooting problems and dealing with customer concerns and objections.

Beginners Basic Biometric Hardware and Software Integration Training Module: This course is aimed at consultants and possibly lead developers who want to address standard business problems with existing biometric software and hardware solutions. The attendee should have prior knowledge of systems architectures.

Simply Biometrics offers a complete range of biometric hardware and software products for time and attendance and physical access control solutions from the leading names in the industry including Sagem Security, L1 Identity/Bioscrypt, Fujitsu, IR Recognition Systems, Precise Biometrics, Hitachi etc.

Related topics:  Building access control system   Eye biometrics   Face biometrics   Fingerprint biometrics   Hand biometrics   Other biometric systems   Security training 

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