Heart running at the speed of a sports car. Sweat beads emerging on the forehead. The tick-tock of watch piercing through the ears. Anxiety. Stress. That frozen state.

Will I? Won't I?

As thrilling as it looks in the movie, in reality it is no fun standing like Ethan Hawk, wondering whether the system will let you in. Will you enter or will you be stopped for further checks? Drumming your fingers in nervous anticipation of when you would be able to cross the entrance barrier. Even Hunt (or Tom Cruise or both) cannot stand all that suspense for too long. Imagine going through it every single day! Every single time you have to enter your workspace!

It's frustrating. It's exhausting. It's annoying. And it delays everything. All those important calls. All those urgent meetings. All those to-do lists. Just because the entry barrier took its own sweet time to let you in.

However, that's not the typical door-scene at the premises of this manufacturing major. This company, that throbs with the energy and hard work of 3500 employees, has said goodbye to all that unnecessary queuing at the entry-points. It has wiped away all that pointless wait as well as fatigue (both physical and emotional) that its employees used to suffer. Why? How?

Enter the new world it has sashayed into. Enter the Tom-Cruise-ready office of Facial Recognition-driven flap gates.

Just a few weeks before...

Security of workspace is not something that can be sidelined so easily. Definitely not for a factory and office that run the pulse of a multi-million global major, sprawled across a wide manufacturing footprint, anchored in 15 offices at various geographies in and out of India. Employees had to go through a proper system of authentication to ensure the safety of personnel, data and equipment at every possible level. To add to that, various HR and administrative processes like attendance, appraisals, schedules and shifts, leave management as well as visitor management made it imperative that rigorous checks are conducted at key entry and exit points of the entire infrastructure.

But all this came at a cost. The company was facing numerous issues that were now manifesting into tangible problems:

• Slow and tardy manual entry system
• Wastage of precious employee and administrative time
• Hard to reconcile reports- attendance registers, shift data and authorisation sheets
• Long waiting time and frustration at the entry gates
• Malfunctioning systems and chaos at the entry points
• Loss or valuable employee productivity
• Scope for frauds, misrepresentation and proxies
• Duplication of data and resource wastage
• Extra HR burden and documentation
• Failure of QR codes leading to confusion and delays
• Missed meetings, missed targets and missed opportunities
• Low morale and feeling of distrust among employees

That's when Staqo entered these clogged gates and sprayed the fire hose of facial recognition- immediately clearing up the flue of all bottlenecks and problems.

Mission Accomplished

Staqo's team implemented a hi-tech, sophisticated and deeply-customised solution as a flap barrier- using the magic of advanced AI and facial recognition technology. The brilliance of this solution lies in the utter ease and effortlessness with which an employee's face is immediately scanned at the entry point. The scan that swiftly corresponds with the seamless repository of data inside so that the right person is automatically, and intelligently, admitted. No false positive and no false negatives. The face is right there- as the best way to authenticate a person. Instead of waiting and wondering and worrying, an employee or authorized visitor simply waltzs in. No stress. No confusion. No suspense.

The solution has been delivering solid outcomes for both employees and HR, since its deployment:

• Fast and frictionless entry for any scale
• Minimum dwell times as the solution runs automatically
• No need for employees to carry extra badges or codes
• Rectification of scope of proxies or inaccurate entries
• Removal of issues of non-logging of employees despite their presence
• A fun way of entering the workspace
• Readiness to handle a large volume of footfalls
• Adherence to rules and rigour without sacrificing human comfort
• Negligible delays and no queues
• Immediate alignment with HR reports and data
• Non-intrusive and respectful admission process
• Sensitive and high-engagement entry
• Strong levels of safety and authentication
• High productivity and collaboration
• Minimal absteenism and downtime

It's a solution that has made the lives and workdays of all the employees easy beyond words. They do not need to jump through countless hoops just to get to their desks. They feel powerful, strong, frictionless, fluid, unobstructed, accelerated, fast, goal-oriented, uninterrupted, and adrenaline-packed- with technology on their side of the team. It's a solution that understands them and their missions- as loyally, as precisely and as deftly as Luther Stickell or Benji Dunn do for Ethan Hunt. They feel like Tom Cruise. Not nervous. But smart, ready, sleek, savvy and sassy.

On to another Mission Impossible! On to a great day full of possibilities!