Soft-drink giant deploys biometrics : SecureID News: "Soft-drink giant deploys biometrics
Thursday, July 28 2005
Johannesburg-based Fingerprint Identification Technology (Fingerprint-it) has installed a biometric control and tracking system for the continent's largest soft-drink company at its main canning plant in Wadeville, SA. Fingerprint-it chief executive officer Bryan Kimmel says the soft-drink vendor is now using fingerprint biometric readers and Fingerprint-it software to track all activity of independent truckers entering the canning site. Sagem supplied the hardware solution for the system.

The system, he says, manages the entire canning plant and warehouse and verifies the identity of any third-party trucker entering the site, tracking their time on the site, what they pick-up, who is responsible, who verified it and when they left.

This produces an 'unforgeable,' time-stamped and lasting record of all activity on the site and effectively reduces the opportunity for illegal access or on-site fraud and crime to zero, Kimmel notes."