Case Study · Time Tracking + Scheduling

Workforce time tracking
with RFID

On-site RFID hardware feeds a live attendance dashboard. Employees tap in, the platform colors the hours and generates clean reports — all in real time.

RFID
Hardware capture
Real-time
Live feed latency
Auto
Report generation
Minutes
Payroll prep time
The Challenge

Paper timesheets and delayed information.

Paper sign-in sheets and manual timesheets meant managers learned about late arrivals days later. Payroll reconciliation took hours each week, and there was no fast way to know who was on-site at any given moment. Adding a new employee meant assigning an ID by hand and hoping nobody collided.

The Solution

RFID taps into a live dashboard.

An RFID reader on-site streams check-ins and check-outs through a proxy into the platform. The workspace renders a live feed, colors hours by performance bands, auto-generates a 17:00 checkout for forgotten taps, and produces clean per-employee reports. New employees get an automatically assigned unique ID.

Key Features

What we shipped

RFID hardware capture

On-site reader sends events through an Express.js proxy with authentication and retry handling.

Live attendance feed

Real-time view of who is checked in, with avatar, time, and status — no walking the floor needed.

Hours coloring

Daily hours rendered in colour bands so under/over thresholds are obvious at a glance.

Auto checkout

Forgotten taps are auto-closed at 17:00 so reports never break and payroll stays clean.

Per-day comments

Managers leave per-employee notes attached to each date — context that turns a timeline into a narrative.

Auto employee IDs

Next available numeric ID is computed at creation — no manual assignment, no collisions. Leavers are soft-deleted.

The Flow

From tap to report

1
Tap at the reader

Employee taps their RFID card on the on-site hardware.

2
Proxy relay

Express.js proxy authenticates and forwards the event with retry on failure.

3
Live feed updates

The dashboard reflects the tap instantly — hours coloring recalculates in real time.

4
Auto close

Any open session without a checkout is closed at 17:00 to keep reports clean.

5
Reports + comments

Per-employee reports rendered. Managers attach day comments for context.

Outcomes

The results speak for themselves.

Hours → minutes

Payroll prep dropped from hours to minutes — the data is already clean and reconciled.

Real-time

Managers know who is on-site without walking the floor.

Full audit trail

Soft-delete preserves a complete historical record for audits and disputes.

2-click onboard

Onboarding a new employee is two clicks — the ID assigns itself.

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