Your ERP is the system of record for your business. It holds the shift schedules, the payroll rules, the project budgets, the production costing, and the contractor agreements. But there is one thing an ERP cannot do on its own: prove that a person was physically present. Every number in your ERP that depends on…
How AI agents such as ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude use MCP and JSON over HTTPS to enrol users, pull logs and revoke access via Cams Biometrics Gateway.
Case study: sending attendance from one biometric device to multiple callback URLs with additional APIs, plus purchase and implementation notes.
Guide to common Cams device messages such as You Disabled and Verify Another, plus where to find key menu settings for users, logs, time and verification.
Labour is the largest controllable cost in retail and hospitality, typically between 25 and 35 percent of revenue. When attendance is managed manually, a percentage of that cost leaks through time theft, buddy punching, unrecorded early departures, and payroll errors that no one audits until the end of the month. For a chain with 80…
Real-time biometric attendance sounds simple: someone scans, your system receives an event, and you save it. In practice, attendance data is messier. The same event can arrive twice. An employee can tap the scanner two times in a row. A device that lost its connection can send a morning check-out in the afternoon. Someone…
Why n8n cannot reach biometric terminals directly (sockets, binary protocols, no events) and how a gateway translates them into webhooks and REST calls.
First, ensure that the device supports HTTPS by configure the vendor’s HTTPS server URL and confirm if it works properly. Then, update the server settings as described below. ✅Server configuration for an HTTPS Domain Name Configuration Steps: Note: If your device has the HTTPS option, Enable HTTPS by navigate to: Menu → Comm → PC…
How Cams Biometrics API charges apply per device: activation, yearly license, protocol update, hybrid connector, software integration, and renewal rules.
Step-by-step guide to testing Cams API callbacks locally with an ngrok tunnel or the Cams callback testing tool plus best practices for testing.
Connect a biometric device to the network by LAN or Wi-Fi, whitelist the server IPs and domains, set the server address and port, and troubleshoot.
Real-time biometric attendance sounds simple: someone scans, your system receives an event, and you save it. In practice, attendance data is messier. The same event can arrive twice. An employee can tap the scanner two times in a row. A device that lost its connection can send a morning check-out in the afternoon. Someone…
A callback receiver is the small piece of code that turns every fingerprint, face, or card scan into a record in your own system. Cams Biometrics Gateway sends each verified scan to your server as a JSON request, and your server replies to confirm it arrived. You do not have to write that receiver from…
Every biometric integration has to answer one basic question: how does a scan at the door become a record in your system? There are two ways to do it. Your server can keep asking the device whether anything new has happened, which is polling. Or the system can tell your server the moment something happens,…
AI agents built on Claude, Gemini, and ChatGPT are starting to do real work inside organisations: answering questions, updating records, and carrying out routine tasks across business systems. Biometric systems are one of the most valuable places for them to work, because they hold verified data about who is actually present. But most biometric systems…
Most HR teams already have the two ingredients for powerful automation: biometric devices that record every arrival and departure, and an automation tool such as n8n, Make, or Zapier. What is usually missing is a connection between the two. Once your biometric attendance data flows into your automation tool in real time, a long…
Zapier, Make, and n8n are the three automation platforms teams most often consider when they want to connect systems without building everything from scratch. Most comparisons judge them on general business tasks like moving form entries into a CRM. Biometric workflows are different. Every fingerprint scan is a real-time event, volumes add up quickly, the…
Attendance data has always been locked behind reports. To find out who was late this week, who is on site right now, or which contractor overstayed their hours, someone had to open the right software, choose the right filters, export a spreadsheet, and read it. With MCP, that changes. An HR manager can now ask…
For decades, businesses have sold to two kinds of customers: consumers (B2C) and other businesses (B2B). A third kind of customer has now arrived, and it does not use screens, click buttons, or read brochures. It is the AI agent. AI agents built on Claude, Gemini, and ChatGPT are starting to carry out real work…
In most organisations, the door and the time clock are two different systems. Security owns access control. HR owns attendance tracking. Each has its own devices, its own enrolment process, its own database, and its own idea of who is in the building. Yet both are answering versions of the same question: who is this…
Your ERP is the system of record for your business. It holds the shift schedules, the payroll rules, the project budgets, the production costing, and the contractor agreements. But there is one thing an ERP cannot do on its own: prove that a person was physically present. Every number in your ERP that depends on…
