Project description

The Werktijden (working hours) App assignment was focused on employees who are working through Randstad at other companies. Until now, employees have had to manually log their working hours on paper, online or use a finger scan to clock themselves in and out. Randstad wanted to know if this process could be optimized with a mobile app.

The project was based on beacon technology. A beacon is a small device that works via Bluetooth and only sends out periodic messages like ‘I’m here, I’m here’! To make it as user friendly as possible for an employee, the students had to develop it in such a way you should be able to leave your iPhone inside your pocket and the app would take care of the rest. So, as soon as an employee walks into a building to start working in the morning or leaves in the evening, the beacon would pick up the Bluetooth signal and register the hours worked by that employee. The beacon region is a circle of a certain distance around the device itself where your iPhone is able to pick up the signal it's sending out. Once your mobile receives the signal, it will turn that into a time to be set. In the morning, it will set the time you start working and in the afternoon or evening it will set the time you are done for the day.

The students also created a separate view where you could see all the times and dates you have logged as working hours. This made it possible for the employee to check which day he/she worked for a certain number of hours.

On the final day, the students had to give a demonstration of the app we had created for Randstad at their offices. To make it more realistic, their Product Owner hung two posters with beacons on a wall, one to check in and one to check out, both with a big distance between them so the beacons wouldn’t interfere with each other. This final demo went very well and Randstad's mobile development team were very excited.

Now Randstad is going to explore the possibilities and reliability of the beacons to see if they can actually implement it inside Randstad Group and all the companies they are working with.

Technologies: iOS, Beacons, Git, Login, Server Side Swift using Vapor, Firebase

Student-Developers: Paul van Lochem & Ewoud Wortelboer
Product Owner: Robbert Hazenberg, Interaction / UX Designer, Randstad Groep Nederland
Delivered: Demo Day, December 2016

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