Case Study: Cristobal Colon achieves accurate employee payment verification with HID Global biometric software

HID Global helps develop a custom biometric software solution that enables the sugarcane company to accurately verify the identity of its employees for proper compensation

Cristobal Colon, a major sugarcane producer in the Dominican Republic, struggled to verify seasonal workers accurately and avoid paying wages to the wrong people. Relying on ID cards and visual checks was unreliable in the field, so the company turned to HID Global for a custom biometric software solution to authenticate employees before cash payments.

HID Global developed a Spanish-language fingerprint verification system that integrated with Cristobal Colon’s HR and payroll processes and ran on handheld mobile readers. The result was 100% validation with no false positives or invalidations, and the company expanded from 10 to 30 mobile devices while also using the HID Global solution for cafeteria payments and planning new census and community-service applications.

Cristobal Colon

Edgar Espinal

Information Technology Manager