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Two Chinese universities, Henan University of Technology in Henan province and Minjiang University in Fujian province, have adopted facial recognition technology as the method of choice for monitoring student attendance and preventing students from registering other classmates on their behalf, a news report has been able to reveal. After Henan University of Technology’s School of […]

A Dubai bank has decided to bolster its security by commissioning vaults employing biometric access control, a specialist news source has revealed. The new vaults to be installed at the Dubai Islamic Bank feature advanced fire detection and suppression systems, external and internal CCTV monitors, and digitization capabilities, in addition to the aforementioned biometric security […]

A fully-featured remote workers module running on a smartphone can help employees spend less time in the office while improving their overall productivity and achieving a very good balance between their working and personal lives. A recent survey of 2000 UK employees carried out on behalf of Microsoft Lumia has revealed that, despite nearly a third […]

Improving building site security is something every company in the construction sector should seriously consider following the Hatton Garden incident, where robbers apparently used two diamond tipped drills stolen from a building site in the City of London last year, according to police sources. Drills that were identical to the model used in the Hatton […]

The UK economy has reached the strongest growth rate for a year in the three months leading to May, statistical figures from the CBI’s latest Growth Indicator have been able to reveal. The rate of growth quickened in all three main sectors, with the business & professional services sector being the stand-out performer. This sector […]

A local police force will use an advanced facial recognition CCTV system in order to enforce security at one of the UK’s best-known music festivals, a news report into this matter has been able to find. Leicestershire Police has acknowledged that cameras positioned at the Download Festival, starting today, the 12’th of June, will scan […]

Applying for a CSCS card is typically a fairly straightforward process, but in order to make it even simpler and easier to understand, CITB and CSCS have produced a new video that provides advice for individuals applying for or renewing CSCS cards. The Construction Skills Certification Scheme (CSCS) provides proof that individuals working on construction […]

A local council has stepped up security around a construction site after reports of people climbing over the fence and putting themselves at risk, a recent news report has been able to reveal. Bournemouth Council has issued a warning for people to stay away from the construction site at the multi-use games area at Churchill […]

Mobile identities, biometrics, hosted/managed services and IT integrators are among the most disruptive trends set to affect the access control market over the next two to three years, researchers from IHS have recently forecasted. Research from the IHS has revealed that the global electronic access control market (excluding China) grew by 6.3 percent in 2014 […]

Over 800,601 more people are working from home nowadays than they were in 2005, with the total number of remote workers reaching an impressive 4.2 million, recent market analysis by TUC has been able to find. Figures show that employment has increased during the past decade, but this rise has been outstripped by the growth […]

The biometric time and attendance market in Saudi Arabia is set to grow at over 22% CAGR through 2020, a recent survey by Research and Markets has been able to reveal. The market research report found that this high growth is attributed to the surging demand for better biometric technologies in the country, from government, […]

There are currently more jobs advertised than jobseekers across three of the UK’s top five cities, the latest figures from the Adzuna Jobs report have been able to reveal. Research has found that the number of advertised jobs has grown to more than one million, reaching a post-recession record of 1,033,435 in April 2015. This […]