The people who keep buildings running —security guards, cleaning staff, technicians, fire wardens —usually work on paper and over the radio. AnyField puts their own file, patrol rounds, zones and tickets on the phone, and the evidence builds itself, at the source: checkpoint physically reached, zone scanned, incident with photo and position. For security companies, facility management, shopping malls and property managers. Enrolment with one QR code, no per-employee licences, on-premise server.
The patrol route = checkpoints on the building plan. The guard walks, the phone confirms each checkpoint by itself, and the control room sees the patrol in real time. No more logbooks, no more "I was there / you weren't" arguments.
In a five-level underground car park there is no GPS, and an NFC tag needs the screen on and the app in front. ergBeacon is a Bluetooth Low Energy beacon mounted on site: the guard's phone recognises it by itself when passing by, from the pocket, with the screen off, without any scanning. Each beacon broadcasts a code that changes every 30 seconds, cryptographically signed and verified by the server —it cannot be copied or simulated from a distance.
Each method where it fits, in the same app. When there is no signal, taps are stored on the phone and sent when the network returns, with the real time of the tap.
| Method | Where we use it | What it guarantees | Indicative cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| GPS | Yards, alleys, outer perimeter | Position and time of every action; checkpoint confirmed on entering its radius | 0 —the phone |
| Standard NFC tag (NTAG213) | Cleaning zones, equipment, locker rooms —high volume | Physical presence at the checkpoint: the phone must actually tap it | ≈ 1–2 lei / pc. |
| Cryptographic tag (NTAG 424 DNA) | Patrol checkpoints, access to sensitive areas | Anti-cloning: unique code on every tap, verified by the server | ≈ 5 lei / pc. |
| QR sticker | Storerooms, locker rooms —where fraud is not a concern | The same person–place–time link, at almost zero cost | ≈ 0 —printed locally |
| ergBeacon (Bluetooth) | Underground car parks, stairwells, technical rooms | Automatic confirmation when passing by, screen off; anti-cloning rolling code | ≈ 70 lei / point, mains mounted |
💡 For a whole shopping mall we are talking about a few hundred tags and a few dozen beacons —a total "infrastructure" investment smaller than a single company phone.
Every zone (toilets, food court, car park −2) has its own scan point. The supervisor sees the live map of zones: green ticked, grey untouched. The daily report by zone and by team is ready for the client.
The core is universal; the modules differ by job. Exactly the same screen, with different buttons underneath, goes to the security guard in the underground car park and to the cleaning staff in the food court. Nothing is built from scratch: payslips, documents, requests and photos already exist in the HR system —the app is just their window to the employee.
The technician uses the app for patrols and tickets; the tenant, for reports. The report goes straight to whoever fixes it, and management sees resolution times by building and by team. The modules below are in development for the next pilot.
We start from what exists: the app is published on Google Play and runs in production, the HR system has the data. We connect them, we don't rebuild them.
A patrol is an ordered list of checkpoints placed on the building plan. The guard starts the patrol on the phone and walks the route; each checkpoint is confirmed automatically when the phone enters its radius (GPS, outdoors), when it taps the NFC tag on the wall, or when it passes an ergBeacon beacon (indoors, without GPS). The control room sees the position, the checkpoints reached and the ones missed live, and at the end receives the patrol report with the real route and the time of each checkpoint.
Yes. Indoors the checkpoint is either a passive NFC tag (no power) or a mains-powered ergBeacon Bluetooth beacon. The beacon is recognised automatically by the phone, from the pocket, with the screen off. Taps and positions are stored on the phone when there is no signal and sent to the server when the network returns, with the real time of the tap.
For sensitive checkpoints we use NTAG 424 DNA cryptographic tags, which generate a unique code on every tap, verified by the server, and ergBeacon beacons that broadcast an HMAC-signed code changed every 30 seconds, with an anti-replay counter. Neither can be copied or simulated from a distance. For low-stakes areas (locker rooms, storerooms) standard NTAG213 tags or QR stickers can be used, at a much lower cost.
An ordinary Android phone (the employee's own or a shift phone shared by several guards with PIN and sign-out), NFC tags costing a few lei each and, for underground use, mains-powered ergBeacon beacons. For a whole shopping mall we are talking about a few hundred tags —a total investment smaller than a single company phone. There are no per-employee licences: enrolment is done with a QR code generated from the personnel file.
Yes. AnyField is natively connected to the ERGISS HR system: clock in/out from the app lands in the attendance sheet, leave requests are approved by HR, and the employee sees the payslip and history on the phone. For clients with another payroll system, the month's attendance is exported through the existing channel.
Security companies, cleaning companies, facility management and technical maintenance companies, managers of shopping malls, office buildings, logistics parks and residential complexes —anywhere there are people in the field who need to prove where they were and what they did.