Fix Biometric Device Time Resetting After Restart
If a biometric device loses its time after a restart, the internal CR1220 3V button cell battery likely needs replacing. Here is what to do.
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How to Move an API License Between Biometric Devices
When and how an API license moves from a damaged Cams or third-party biometric device to a replacement, with pro-rated license and activation steps.
Cams Biometric API vs Traditional Biometric Integration
Compares the Cams Biometric API with SDK-based and other biometric integration methods: real-time push, two-way user management, and no port forwarding.
Webhooks vs Polling: How Real-Time Biometric Data Should Reach Your Server
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,…
Why Every ERP Needs Biometric Infrastructure
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…
DHCP on Biometric Devices: Benefits and When to Use Manual IP
How DHCP automatically assigns IP address, subnet mask, gateway and DNS to a biometric device, and when manual IP configuration is the better choice.
Why n8n Workflows Cannot Talk to Biometric Devices
Why n8n cannot reach biometric terminals directly (sockets, binary protocols, no events) and how a gateway translates them into webhooks and REST calls.
Upgrade Old Attendance Machines Without Replacing Hardware
How the Cams Biometrics Gateway adds real-time dashboards, payroll sync and multi-site reporting to existing attendance terminals without new hardware.
Five Biometric Attendance Problems Every Manufacturing Plant Faces and How to Solve Them
Manufacturing plants are not offices. The shop floor has no reliable internet. The network is air-gapped for security. Workers rotate across three shifts. Hundreds of devices are scattered across a facility the size of several football fields. Punch cards and manual registers have been the default for decades not because they are good but because…
How AI Agents Run Biometric Access Control Across Industries
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.
