Use-case scenario · Manufacturing · Coimbatore · 40 cameras
The factory gate where fingerprints stopped working
Attendance was the entry point, not security. Once the gate camera was producing a reliable roll, the same deployment extended to the perimeter using the cameras already on the boundary.
- Sector
- Manufacturing
- Location
- Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu
- Cameras
- 40 existing cameras, plus one dedicated gate camera
The challenge
- Fingerprint readers failed daily on hands working with oil, dust and metal — every failure lengthened the shift-change queue.
- Buddy punching was a known and unaddressed problem.
- Contractor headcount inside the plant at any moment was a guess.
- A one-kilometre perimeter was covered by a guard at a single gate.
What we did
One new camera, at face height
The existing overview camera at the gate was mounted too high to recognise anyone. A single dedicated camera at the right height and angle solved what forty cameras could not.
Enrol in batches during a shift change
Enrolment ran alongside the existing machine for two weeks, so the switch happened only once the record matched.
Unknown faces logged separately
Contractors and visitors appear as unknown-face events with snapshots, giving a live non-employee headcount for the first time.
Perimeter added on existing cameras
With the gate working, virtual boundaries were drawn on cameras already covering the compound wall — no new cabling, no trenching.
What changed
No queue
Workers logged while walking through the gate
0
Fingerprint read failures — there is no sensor to fail
1 camera
Added; the perimeter reused existing ones
The concern this scenario addresses
Face recognition at the gate quietly replaced our biometric machine — attendance is automatic now and the queues at shift change are gone.
Typical of factory manager, coimbatore — illustrative, not a customer quote.
Illustrative scenario, not a report of a completed project. It shows how PGAK would be configured for a site of this type and the outcomes such a setup is designed to achieve; the figures are modelled, not measured at a named customer.