Modo quiosco compatible con código de barras, RFID y Web NFC

A Kimai plugin, which allows using barcodes for punch-in and punch-out time tracking with Kimai. You can use it with a barcode scanner, with a web-camera, with a RFID reader or an NFC reader.

It also supports a “freestyle” mode, which allows to enter any free configurable code (up to 120 characters), so you can also use other devices for starting/stopping:

• an electronic USB number-pad
• an RFID scanner that acts as keyboard
• an Android device with Web NFC support (only Chrome browser)

This bundle is the solution for you, if you want to use Kimai in a kiosk mode, where users register their attendance time through punch-in (coming) and punch-out (leaving) mode.

It could be as simple as:

• Hand out NFC or RFID tokens to your employees
• Mount a tablet to the wall in your entrance room
• Let your users check-in & check-out when entering the building by scanning their tokens

You can test it in the “Plugins” demo.

Features

• Start/Stop work with
  • Barcode scanner (via device camera, only works via HTTPS)
  • Barcode scanner (via USB or Bluetooth)
  • RFID scanner (via USB or Bluetooth)
  • Web NFC (see docs)
• Upon starting/stopping a record via this plugin, the user will see a short overview screen with the entries of the current week (including some statistics)
• New user profile screen for the “codes”
  • Display all codes for user
  • Generate a random code (automatically done if none is existing yet for the active code-type)
  • Re-use existing code for user by entering (or scanning) it manually
• User specific settings to configured allowed start and end working time (user can only clock in between these times)
• Supports the following 1D barcodes:
  • Code 128
  • Code 39
  • UPC-A (scanner needs to transmit check digit)
  • Code 2 of 5
  • Code 2 of 5 interleaved
  • Codabar (scanner needs to transmit start & stop digits)
• Optional: show active / inactive users in login screen
• Many CSS classes to customize the look with Custom CSS

You need to configure a non-global activity for starting the record via this plugin. This will be used for every recorded timesheet that is created using the kiosk mode.

Hardware

Self-built setups

This is NOT a hardware recommendation, but more an idea for possible use-cases.

I tried the linked products and even though all scanner are rather cheap, they work without problems.

• Raspberry PI setup with touch screen (eg. for wall mount)
• RFID scanner by Neuftech (desktop version)
• RFID scanner by KKMoon (desktop version)
• Barcode scanner which can also scan codes from mobile phones (desktop version)
• Barcode scanner classic hand-held version

Above are affiliate links for Amazon (Germany) where I bought them myself.

Meeting-Room Tablet with NFC

This proposal contains a tablet which can be wall- and VESA mounted, has WLAN and only needs a tiny AC adapter. The NFC reader is on the front, so users can easily scan their tokens.

• Meeting room tablet: AllNet DE AllNet AT (this only works if you switch to the AT Shop through the dropdown in the header of the Shop)

You need a Kiosk application, which makes sure that users always see the login screen:

• Kiosk application: Android Kiosk

And you need a bunch of NFC tokens:

• NFC tags: NFC Tag Shop

Licenses

The following libraries are used when using barcodes with the Kiosk mode:

• Barcode scanning: https://github.com/ericblade/quagga2 (Version: 0.0.18, License: MIT)
• Barcode generation: https://github.com/metafloor/bwip-js (Version: 2.0.6, License: MIT)