Tracking Students With Biometrics

Aug 1, 2003 12:00 PM

Students at Bar-Lev High School in Tel Aviv, Israel, now register their arrival at the school using biometric fingerprint readers from Lavie TimeTech Ltd., Tel Aviv, stationed at the school's entrance.

Linked to a computerized data bank, each student's information is recorded when they check in using their fingerprint and a unique PIN.

The system then automatically processes this data and sends messages to the mobile phones of parents whose children are either absent or tardy.

“The idea had been rolling in my head ever since one of our students was seriously wounded in a terror attack in Tel-Aviv one morning two years ago,” says principal Assaf Naftali. “He was playing hooky at the time of the explosion, and the school and parents were notified of his whereabouts only in the late afternoon. Parents want to ensure that their children are safe at all times. It's enough for one pupil to be unaccounted for.”

The school started using the system on an experimental basis, and intends to fully integrate it within a month. Only about five or six parents refused to have their children fingerprinted for the system. Once a student leaves the school, all information is deleted from the system.

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