Automatic clocking and idleness management in enterprise environments using wireless sensors

• Published in: 2016 XLII Latin American Computing Conference (CLEI) pp. 1 - 12
• Main Authors: da Rosa Righi, Rodrigo, Rostirolla, Gustavo, Andre da Costa, Cristiano, Fischer, Gabriel Souto, Wendt, Ivam Guilherme, Souza dos Reis, Eduardo
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 01.10.2016
• Subjects: Clocking; Companies; Context modeling; Idleness Management; Radiofrequency identification; Registers; Resource Management; Self-Organizing; Wireless communication; Wireless sensor networks; Wireless Sensors
• DOI: 10.1109/CLEI.2016.7833345

Clocking represents the manner in which companies register employee data; particularly, data related to entrances to and departures from the company. Being normally implemented with wireless cards or by hand, this procedure can implies on large queues, reducing the emloyee productivity, besides being sensitive to longer complications (when the employee forget to register the clocking, for example). In this context, we developed a model named ACID (Automatic Clocking and Idleness Detection) to bring benefits for both administrators and employees through the use of wireless sensors. Besides eliminating queues, it is possible to analyze those employees that are away from their own places for more than a particular threshold. In addition, the model is also pertinent to enhance decision support when promotions take place. We developed a prototype that was evaluated through simulation, taking into account the architectural plant and the employees behavior of five real Brazilian companies. The results reveals the benefits of using IDAC both at the owner (control and productivity) and employees (the clocking actions occurs automatically) levels.