In Turkey, an average of 8.7 million turnstile passes are renewed every year due to loss and wear. For this process, brands pay between 1 and 7.5 dollars per card.
Thanks to the mobile phone pass system offered by Armongate, the innovative brand of pass technologies, the budget spent on card renewal every year and the money that could be used to establish 65 factories remain in the country's economy.
While the world is experiencing a technological revolution at a rapid pace, card systems continue to be used intensively in our country for the beginning and end of working hours and for breaks. In Turkey, there are around 7.5 million white-collar office workers working in marketing, communication, technical, R&D and management fields, and more than 378 million workers, intermediate production staff and engineers work in more than 74 thousand factories in 14 organized industrial zones across the country. 7.5 million white-collar office and approximately 10 million employees in the production area use cards to pass through turnstiles when entering and exiting plazas, buildings, factories and production centers. According to the world average, at least 4 in every 1 employees loses their card during the year, and 4 in every 1 employees has to renew their card due to wear, breakage, chip damage or corruption. In other words, 50 percent of the cards used by employees to log in and out are changed by workplace management during the year.
We have to renew 8.7 million cards a year
Cards used for transition technologies are available at different prices depending on the technologies they contain. For this reason, each card changed is recorded as a loss to the business' account. The costs of the cards vary between 1 dollar and 7.5 dollars. Depending on the status of the workplace, the security requested and the technology used, the card price exceeds $10. When 17.5 million new card expenditures are made every year for the 8.7 million employees who use cards to pass through the turnstile every day in our country, the losses of the Turkish economy increase day by day due to the increasing exchange rate.
Passing without a card is possible with a mobile phone
Armongate, which produces and implements contactless, fast and safe transit technologies, plays a major role in preventing this financial loss thanks to its superior technology. Armongate COO Göksun Aktaş stated that brands use card access systems to know employees' work loyalty and track their break times in terms of work efficiency, and said, "Thanks to the mobile access control technology we developed as Armongate, all financial problems experienced due to loss and wear of cards are eliminated." .
We lose a huge fortune every year
Underlining that businesses face large payments for each lost card, Aktaş said, “When we consider that 8.7 million cards lost during the year have a renewal fee of 1 dollar, the figure lost by the Turkish economy during the year is 8.7 million dollars. When the cost of the card is 7.5 dollars, the cost of loss reaches 65.6 million dollars. Today, with the amount we spend to renew our card, the cost of establishing a factory in Turkey starts from 1 million dollars, although it varies depending on the technology used and the product to be manufactured. It is possible to open 9 to 65 new factories with the money we spend to renew our cards every year. But we choose to waste huge amounts of foreign currency every year to replace cards that have old technology, are easy to copy, and can be used by someone else if stolen. "Moreover, this figure is written off as a loss in the turnover of workplaces," he said.
Losses are prevented with technology
Stating that Armongate opens the doors quickly, safely and contactlessly 250 thousand times every day with the Access Control system using mobile phones, NFC, QR codes, Turkish ID cards and passports, Göksun Aktaş said, “With the new generation technologies we offer instead of classical card access systems, plazas, Employees can enter and exit buildings, campuses, factories and production centers without congestion. Human resources have instant access to all entry and exit information. There is no need to spend for the card. Our goal here is to ensure that the money earned by brands is spent on more production and employment, not on financing old technology transition systems. "For this purpose, we use the latest possibilities of technology," he said.