Face Recognition System for Dual-Gate Attendance – VEEYES Alloys

VEEYES Alloys operates a steel castings and foundry facility in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, working with carbon steel, alloy steel, stainless steel, and duplex and nickel-based alloys. As part of strengthening attendance accuracy and gate-level access control, the facility engaged Katomaran Technologies to implement a Face Recognition System (FRS) across its front and back gates. The deployment pairs dedicated entry and exit cameras with attendance marking that follows the facility's shift schedule, giving both operations and security teams a single, connected view of employee movement. By anchoring attendance to the gates employees actually use, the system reduces reliance on separate manual processes at each checkpoint.

• Foundries and casting facilities typically operate across multiple shifts, with employees, contractors, and staff moving in and out through more than one gate over the course of a day. Tracking this movement accurately, and tying it back to the correct shift, becomes difficult when attendance depends on manual registers, punch cards, or standalone systems that aren't connected to actual gate activity.
• In this kind of multi-shift, multi-gate environment, the front and back gates are often managed as two separate checkpoints, each with its own record-keeping approach. Without a common system linking the two, it becomes harder to build a complete, accurate picture of who is on site at any given time, and harder still to reconcile that picture against shift schedules.

• Katomaran's approach for VEEYES Alloys centered on deploying a Face Recognition System across both gates used by employees, replacing manual and card-based tracking with contactless identification tied directly to shift timings. Rather than treating entry and exit as separate, disconnected checkpoints, the system was structured around the facility's actual layout the front gate for entry, and the back gate for exit with cameras dedicated to each.
• This gate-level design means attendance is captured at the actual point of movement rather than at a separate check-in desk or standalone terminal. Because the same system covers both gates, entry and exit activity from either point feeds into one attendance record, rather than two disconnected logs that need to be manually reconciled.
• The deployment was built around four core elements: coverage across both gates, attendance marking aligned to shifts, contactless identification for employees, and centralized monitoring of all entry and exit activity. This follows the same gate-level design thinking that runs through Katomaran's AI-driven safety and monitoring solutions for manufacturing facilities, where identification and monitoring are treated as one connected layer rather than separate tools bolted onto existing gate processes.

• With a Face Recognition System covering both the front and back gates, VEEYES Alloys now has a more connected way to track employee movement and attendance across shifts. Entry and exit events are captured directly at the gate rather than relying on manual registers or separate card-based checks, giving the facility cleaner, more consistent attendance records that are easier to reconcile against actual shift activity.
• Bringing both gates into a single, centralized process also gives the security and HR teams clearer visibility into who has entered or exited the facility at any point in a shift, reducing the coordination effort that comes with managing attendance across multiple gates and shift changeovers manually. This approach reflects the same gate-level thinking behind Katomaran's other face recognition deployments for factory access control, and sits alongside its broader work on AI-driven safety and monitoring solutions for manufacturing facilities, all supported by a centralized video management system that keeps entry, exit, and monitoring data in one place. It follows the same pattern seen across Katomaran's broader set of industrial and enterprise case studies, applied here to VEEYES Alloys' dual-gate foundry environment.