Recognised before the hand reaches the door.
Two cameras, one colour and one infrared, reading a face in under a fifth of a second at up to two and a half metres. A fingerprint reader and a card field sit beside it for the people and the mornings where a face is not the right answer.
AI24FDynamic Face Recognition Time Attendance Access Control Terminal
What this one is good at
Two cameras, not one
A 1MP colour camera for the picture and a 1MP infrared camera for whether it is a living face. A printed photograph, a phone screen and a video all fail against the pair, which is the whole reason the second camera is there.
≤0.2s, 99.70% accurate
The manufacturer's figures, on their test set. What it means at a staff door is that nobody stops walking. Recognition happens across the approach rather than at a halt.
Works in bad light
Wide dynamic range handles strong front light, backlight and dark. In the dark a soft white light comes up on its own when it sees a face, controlled by ambient level.
Fingerprint for the exceptions
10,000 fingerprints, on a reader tilted toward the hand. Kitchen staff, anybody in a mask, anybody the camera keeps missing: they get a method that always works.
Keeps running through a cut
An optional backup battery carries it through a power outage, so the punches either side of the cut are still one shift when the lights come back.
Wall or desk
Wall-mounted over a wire raceway, or stood on the fold-out desk stand. Same unit, and the choice is usually made by where the door is rather than by preference.
With Attendance
The door happens, and it is in the software.
This is not a terminal you buy and then find an export routine for. It is integrated with Attendance at attendance.cy, and a punch at this door is in the live view before the person has finished walking through it.
Real time, not a poll interval
The gateway holds an open stream and pushes every event the instant it happens. No refresh, no five-minute wait, no "last synced at". Somebody checks in and the board has them.
Three layers, so nothing is lost
The push is the fast path. Behind it Attendance polls on a watermark with a five-minute overlap, and behind that the terminal keeps its own log: up to a million events. Cut the network for a week and every punch still arrives, carrying the time it was made.
Straight into hours, not a spreadsheet
The punch becomes a shift, the shift becomes hours, and the hours become an approved payroll batch: in one record, with the corrections attached to it. Nothing is re-keyed and nothing is reconciled by memory at the end of the month.
You can see the terminal itself
Online or not, when it was last seen, and whether collection is current or overdue: per unit, in the portal. A terminal that quietly stops reporting is visible the same day rather than when somebody queries a missing shift.
Right for
- A main staff entrance where people arrive in a rush
- Sites that want contactless first, with fingerprint and card behind it
- Doors with awkward light: a glass lobby, a west-facing entrance
Not right for
Outdoor doors with no shelter. Its working range starts at 0°C, so an exposed gate in a cold snap wants the TM-AI03FP, which is rated to −15°C.
Every angle
On the fold-out desk stand
Specifications
Transcribed from the manufacturer's datasheet for the AI24F. Where a sheet is silent, the row is absent rather than filled in from a sibling model.
Recognition
- Methods
- Face, fingerprint, card, password
- Face accuracy
- 99.70%
- Recognition speed
- ≤0.2s
- Recognition distance
- 0.5-2.5 m 0.5-1.5 m with live-face detection on.
- Cameras
- 1MP colour + 1MP infrared
- Anti-spoofing
- Dual-camera live detection: refuses photographs, screens and video
- Difficult light
- Wide dynamic range; automatic fill light in the dark
- Card
- ID card as standard, IC card optional
Capacity
- Users
- 15,000
- Faces
- 5,000
- Fingerprints
- 10,000
- Cards and passwords
- 15,000
- Stored events
- 500,000 The terminal keeps its own log, so a network outage loses nothing.
Hardware
- Screen
- 4″ HD touch screen
- Processor
- ARM Cortex-A7 800MHz, 0.8T NPU
- Memory
- 256MB DDR3 / 4GB eMMC
- Operating system
- Linux 4.19
- Mounting
- Wall mount or fold-out desk stand
Doors and wiring
- Lock output
- Yes
- Doorbell
- Output, and an external ring
- Wiegand
- Input and output Lets it sit in front of an access controller you already own.
Power and network
- Power over Ethernet
- Supported One cable to the door: data and power on the same run, with no socket needed beside the frame. Confirmed by the manufacturer: the datasheets in circulation predate it and list only the DC supply.
- Backup battery
- Available Listed on the datasheet as an option. The terminal keeps reading and keeps recording through a cut, so the punches either side of it are still one shift.
- DC power
- DC 12V 1A For a run with no PoE at the other end of it.
- Network
- Ethernet (TCP/IP), Wi-Fi, USB type-A
- Data transfer
- USB 2.0 host: import and export by USB stick
Attendance integration
- Live updates
- Real time, pushed The gateway holds an open stream and sends each punch the moment it happens. Somebody walks through the door and the live view has them, without a refresh and without a poll interval to wait out.
- If the network drops
- Nothing is lost The terminal keeps its own log, and Attendance polls the gateway on a watermark with a five-minute overlap. Reconnect and every punch made in the gap is imported, with its original time, not the time it arrived.
- Duplicate protection
- One punch, once The same event arriving by both push and poll is recognised as one punch, not two.
- Device health
- Online, last seen, collection state Shown per terminal in the portal, so a unit that has quietly stopped reporting is visible before somebody notices a missing shift.
- Verification status
- Certified on real hardware Seven checks recorded against a physical unit: every verification method, in and out direction, a disconnect-and-replay, a duplicate, an unknown enrolment, and a shift across midnight.
Environment
- Working temperature
- 0°C to +45°C
- Working humidity
- 20%-90%
- Languages
- 20, with voice prompts Including English, Greek is not on the manufacturer's list. The portal is English and the phone app carries Greek.
The other three
TM-AI03FP
Q9
Q8The terminal is the part you can change your mind about.
Every one of these writes into the same record, so a site can run two models on two doors, or replace one in three years, without anything downstream noticing. What you are choosing here is how people get through a particular door, not a platform.
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