Facial recognition clock-in

A facial recognition attendance system that proves who turned up

Workers clock in with their face on any tablet. Each clock-in is matched against the enrolled worker, checked for liveness, and logged with its confidence score — in under two seconds, with no photo stored.

GDPR UK data residency ISO/IEC 30107-3 liveness
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Clock-in · James Patterson Riverside DC · Kiosk 2
0% match
Runner-up 0.4% Liveness pass Logged 1.8s
Identity verified — clocked in
The match score and liveness result are logged against the hour — every time.

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Typical face-match confidence at clock-in — logged against every hour, so the hours you bill are the hours you can prove in under 2s.

GDPR compliant ISO/IEC 30107-3 liveness UK-hosted data RFC 6238 2FA
01How it works

Biometric science, not photo comparison

AdaVision ID v3 is our own face-recognition engine — a deep convolutional neural network that turns each face into a 1024-dimensional vector signature and matches it server-side against your whole enrolled workforce. Nothing about it depends on storing a photo.

  • Enrol once

    A worker enrols from a short capture. The system computes a 1024-dimensional vector signature and discards the imagery — the signature cannot be turned back into a face.

  • Match at the kiosk

    At clock-in, a fresh signature is compared by cosine similarity against the whole workforce in a single 1:N call — robust to beards, glasses, hairstyles and different cameras.

  • Confirm liveness

    ISO/IEC 30107-3 active liveness confirms a real person is present, not a photo, a screen or a mask, before the clock-in is accepted.

  • Log the proof

    The match score, the runner-up gap and the liveness result are written to the timesheet alongside the GPS reading — the hour carries its own evidence.

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Enrolment record · James Patterson No photo stored
Stored as 1024-D float vector
Reversible to an image no
Inference location UK / EU

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Special category data · UK GDPR Art. 9

02Anti-spoof

A photo of a face will not clock anyone in

Buddy-punching only works if the system can be fooled. Active liveness, tested to ISO/IEC 30107-3, confirms a live person is present before any clock-in is accepted.

Held-up photos

A printed or on-screen photo is flat and lifeless. Liveness reads depth and micro-movement, so a picture of a colleague is rejected.

Replayed video

A recording played back on a phone fails the same checks — there is no live response to the prompts, so the attempt does not pass.

Masks and prints

Presentation-attack detection is tested against the recognised ISO/IEC 30107-3 standard, covering 2D and 3D mask attacks alongside photo and video.

When a match is not confident enough, nobody is locked out

If a face cannot be matched with enough confidence — poor light, a new injury, a bad camera angle — the worker clocks in by PIN and the event is flagged for a manager to review. Work is never blocked; the exception is simply recorded.

Low match: 68% PIN fallback used Flagged for review
03GDPR & the law

Biometric clocking is legal in the UK — done correctly

Facial data is special category data under UK GDPR, so it needs a lawful basis, a clear privacy notice and proportionate safeguards. TempClock is built so you can deploy it that way, not work around it after the fact.

No photos stored

Faces are held as irreversible vector signatures, not images — the underlying biometric cannot be reconstructed.

A workable alternative

Every worker can clock in by PIN, so facial recognition is never the only route to recording an hour.

UK-hosted, append-only

Data is held on UK infrastructure and sensitive actions are written to an append-only audit log.

One-click SAR export

Produce every record held on a worker for a subject-access request, packaged in a single export.

This is general guidance on how the system is built, not legal advice. Your data protection responsibilities as an employer remain your own.

04What you get back

Hours you can prove, the same day

Face-verified clock-ins close the gap between the hours worked, the hours billed and the hours you can evidence — without slowing anyone down at the kiosk.

Buddy-punching, designed out

A worker cannot clock in for someone else, because the face has to match the enrolled worker and pass liveness. The score travels with the hour.

Disputes you can settle

When a client queries an hour, you answer with a verified time, a location and a match score — not one person's word against another's.

No hardware to buy

The kiosk runs in a browser on any tablet or phone with a camera. There is nothing to install and no proprietary clocking terminal to source.

Live, byte-for-byte proof

The match score, runner-up gap and liveness result are written to the timesheet as the day happens — nothing is reconstructed afterwards.

Know who turned up — and pay every hour right.

Face-verified clock-ins, live geofencing and payroll-ready timesheets in one system. Tell us how your shifts run and we will show you how it fits.

UK-hosted · Set up in under an hour · No app for your staff