Landlords Property & Facilities Management Sdn Bhd (formerly known as Landlords Management Services) was formed to provide complete solutions to facilities management and maintenance of commercial and residential building services concentrated on Klang Valley. The company comprises a team of qualified professionals with expertise and vast experience to offer to the owners, JMB/MC and developers.
Landlords Property & Facilities Management has to constantly deal with multiple sites that they need to station employees. Unfortunately, they were not furnished with a system that could centralize workforce data to their satisfaction. Without such a system in place, the employees can't report their whereabouts effectively, and the management has no clue where they are in real-time, resulting in miscommunication and misunderstanding. As the business grows, the company is looking for a holistic solution to streamline staff management to solve these problems.
TimeTec TA cloud-based attendance system ticks all the boxes for Landlords Property & Facilities Management. With the practical App of TimeTec TA, the employees can report to work by tapping on the App no matter where they are or their work time. The system will capture the attendance time data along with the GPS data as proof of attendance. The employees can also report what's happening on-site to the supervisor with a simple report complete with photos when they check-in, if necessary.
The modern and up-to-date features of TimeTec TA complies with Landlords Property & Facilities Management recent requirements, and now the management can get a complete picture of their staff at all times. In addition to that, TimeTec TA can also verify all the milage claims related to work on sites with actual distance powered by Google Map.
TimeTec TA comes with a web and an App with one price.
With a low monthly investment, TimeTec TA definitely provides Landlords Property & Facilities Management with high returns through transparent and accurate data at all times all year long.
Citra Embun is a Freehold Strata Townvilla located at Taman Bukit Citra, Mantin, Negeri Sembilan, developed by Seri Pajam Development Sdn. Bhd. The residential offers five blocks of 3 & 5 storey buildings with a built-up size of approximately 956 - 1,317 sq. ft in size, and all 320 units come with three bedrooms.
Citra Embun is equipped with excellent facilities such as yoga alcove, giant chess, hopping lawn, sculpture seating, BBQ pit, gazebo, eco gym and four concept parks consisting of into the woods, the terrace, hanging garden and Edu-ture lane for a better lifestyle and environment.
This residential area is located near amenities such as shopping malls, well connected by Lekas Highway Nilai/Pajam toll, North-South Highway, and nearby KLIA.
To bring Citra Embun management to another level, they subscribe to the iNeighbour Smart Community App. The App has been proven to ease visitor management and visitor parking issues excellently because residents can pre register their visitors before the visitation date, complete with a QR code for easy access. In addition, security guards can access the information to ease visitor handling. Furthermore, the residents can view their visitor information on the App, and they can take control of who can visit their unit at all times. Apart from that, the management can disseminate announcements to residents quickly via the App, and residents can give feedback through the same App to the management for any issues they face. All in all, iNeighbour provides a better communication tool for both parties to exchange information timely and efficiently.
As of late, the pandemic has posed a more significant challenge for the management to handle highrise residentials, and iNeighbour provides the perfect contactless practical instrument to cater to the situation. For example, the facility booking in iNeighbour provides access to those who have been given permission only, and other people cannot enter those facilities. Hence, the shared facilities become more manageable during the pandemic, like the swimming pool, gymnasium, and more.
iNeighbour Smart Community App satisfies Citra Embun management, and now they are looking to apply the system to their other projects in town.
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P&A Smart Solution Sdn Bhd is a finance and accounting firm established 23 years ago with a clear vision of achieving excellence. Starting with one established client, Standard Chartered Bank in Wangsa Maju, the company has grown with a string of clients who they supported through many credit recovery challenges for over two decades. Headquartered at Wisma P&A in Brickfields, Kuala Lumpur, the company has expanded from four to 320 staff and counting.
As the company progresses, HR is now ready to explore digitalization to streamline workforce management and achieve efficiency in operation.
Previously, the company used biometrics door access devices for two purposes, access control and door attendance. While the verification of biometrics devices is second to none, its data collection is another matter. HR found it tedious when they had to use USB to collect data every day, and recently, work-from-home (WFH) had posed a new challenge to HR in tracking attendance. They had explored Google form to manage the WFH, but they found many costly loopholes they couldn't afford.
By switching to FingerTec biometrics and TimeTec TA, P&A Smart Solutions managers can easily track their staff attendance and accurately calculate their staff mileage claim using the distance calculator feature. In addition, staff who WFH can report their duty through the mobile app, and those at the site can report their work effectively from each location complete with GPS data. Not only that the TimeTec TA offers convenience to the staff, but it also provides a perfect tool for the management to obtain accurate data in real-time for monitoring to achieve better operation.
P&A Smart Solution also explores cloud-based leave management with TimeTec Leave to abolish the ineffective manual form they had used for years. With TimeTec Leave, staff can now apply for leave through a mobile app, and managers can do approval the same way. Leave data becomes transparent to everybody, and it increases staff's satisfaction and engagement to another level. Every time a staff's leave application is approved, the system calculates the leave balance instantly and updates the app. TimeTec Leave also automates the whole process and eliminates the key-in process to payroll once and for all. Now with TimeTec Leave, it is easier for HR to automate company leave policies such as service accruals, prorated leave and other rules besides having the past years' data intact in the system at all times.
The switch to the TimeTec system has provided P&A Smart Solution with a modern and practical way of managing its growing workforce to prepare for a more data-driven future to come.
If you wish to digitalize your workforce management as P&A Smart Solution does, our team is ready to provide you with a FREE consultation today.
Most of the modern city dwellers are experiencing the time-waste searching for parking space. According to Boston Consulting Group (BCG) research, people in Kuala Lumpur spend 25 minutes every day searching for a parking spot. It usually happens at bustling malls. It is even more frustrating when a patron circles the entire parking site and finally finds a “prey” to see it being snatched away by a quicker “predator”. To solve the problem, TimeTec encourages car park owners to consider adopting a parking guidance system.
“TimeTec offers two types of Parking Guidance System, the first is Video Parking Guidance System, which deploys License Plate Recognition (LPR) technology; the second is Ultrasonic Parking Guidance System, which uses Ultrasonic wave technology. Both are meant to guide users to park their cars effortlessly; hence effectively reduce the search time for parking, increase the parking utilization rate and mitigate congestion,” explained Teh Hon Seng, CEO of TimeTec Group.
“Since the Video Parking Guidance System is using LPR, it’s natural to be using LPR as the main parking entry and exit method if a carpark owner chooses this guidance system. On the other hand, for Ultrasonic Parking Guidance System, the carpark owner can choose various parking entry and exit methods including the LPR.”
Both Guidance Systems can work standalone, and they can also fully integrate with the TimeTec Smart Parking Management System to provide better feature extension.
The comparison between the two parking guidance systems:
Video Parking Guidance
Ultrasonic Parking Guidance
1
Deploy LPR technology
Deploy Ultrasonic Wave Technology
2
With Find My Car feature
Without Find My Car capability
3
Cover 1-6 carpark bays
One detector for each carpark bay
4
Up to 7 colours for indicator lights
Two colours for indicator lights
5
LPR Camera for surveillance
Not using any camera
6
Use LPR as entry & exit for seamless parking experience
More entry & exit method options
7
Investment cost higher
Investment cost lower
Teh Hon Seng said, “The Video Parking Guidance System has an extra advantage to solve the shared-carpark environment issue to discern the parking income for different business entities. For example, when a shopping mall is sharing the same parking site with a hotel, users can come in from the hotel’s parking entrance but park at the shopping mall’s parking lots and leave via the shopping mall’s exit, and vice versa. As a result, they have difficulty splitting the parking income. But because the Video Parking Guidance System embedded License Plate Recognition (LPR) technology, it can identify where a vehicle parks regardless of its entry and exit points. Moreover, with the ownership of parking bays clearly defined in the TimeTec Smart Parking Management System, the parking income is tabulated without any mistake.”
“Furthermore, shopping malls can also integrate their mall apps to the Parking Guidance System to extend the Parking Bay Availability Check and Find My Car features to the user’s smartphones.”
The benefits of the TimeTec Integrated Video Parking Guidance System are summarized as follow:
The simple System Architecture of the TimeTec Video Parking Guidance System:
Please contact Kelvin Lim, Sales Manager, at kelvin.lim@timeteccloud.com or 012-6891180 for product presentation and demonstration appointments. You may also call 03-80709933 general line or write to info@timeteccloud.com for more information.
This is the 12th and also the final article for TimeTec Smart Parking on Malaysiakini. For the previous article, click this link:
About TimeTec TimeTec Group was established in 2000. Over 20 years, the Group had developed three homegrown globally recognized IT brands, FingerTec, TimeTec and iNeighbour, for workforce management, security, smart office, smart residential and smart township solutions unleashing the power of biometrics, cloud & edge computing, IoT and AI technologies. All these solutions connect and change the landscape of work life and home life in a larger ecosystem. Through a vast network, TimeTec Group distributes its biometric hardware products and 16 cloud applications, including IoT devices, to more than 150 countries worldwide. Visit our company websites: TimeTec Cloud, TimeTec Building, TimeTec Parking.
Various renowned clients have subscribed to TimeTec various solutions, including IOI Properties, Putrajaya Holdings, Ibraco, Binastra, Thriven, Hock Seng Lee, QSR Brands, Central Sugars Refinery CSR, Sunway Constructions, Mamee, Yakult, Nano Malaysia Berhad, and many more. The versatility and feasibility of TimeTec products also attract various international customers from all over the world, including Hong Kong, Dubai, Australia, Qatar, South Africa etc.
“In the third article of the TimeTec Smart Parking series (3 of 12) on Malaysiakini, we've discussed the Past, Present & Future of parking system, where we foresee the possible demise of parking system in the next twenty to thirty years when the roads were mostly taken over by autonomous cars and e-hailing services.” Teh Hon Seng, TimeTec Group CEO, explains the future of the parking industry.
“Even when the prediction is correct, the incessant technology advancement will still keep on improving, renewing and refining the parking system before that.”
“Undoubtedly, the growth of e-hailing companies such as Uber, Lyft, Didi, Grab, etc., will largely impact the parking industry because users will not require any parking space at the intended destination, besides the options of other public transport systems. But statistics still show that in America alone, there are 500 million parking spaces for 326 million citizens spread across 3.5 million square miles of parking infrastructure. More parking spaces than the population are not because some car owners own more than one car, but mainly because cars require more parking spaces when transporting people from one place to another.”
An estimated 30 percent of traffic congestion each year is contributed by drivers searching for one of these parking spots. According to Boston Consulting Group (BCG) research, people in Kuala Lumpur spend 25 minutes every day searching for parking. Another problem is, for a city where people and vehicles congregated, the land is expensive. It seems like the carpark is still that necessary evil that would be stretched for another one to two decades.
Teh Hon Seng said, “Parking technology is transforming the ticket and cash system to ticketless, cashless and touchless system. The future development inevitably will focus on reducing the time to look for parking spots and efficiently managing the parking sites to optimize utilization. In short, towards an automated smart parking direction. As one of the pioneers in developing the smart parking system, TimeTec will continue the efforts towards the same direction.”
Imagine a future that combines an automated valet parking system where you can step out of your car in front of a shopping mall with a single App, communicate the car with the parking site and the digital building system to allow your car to quickly find a parking space, via the easiest route and park on its own. Research in 2018 by University of Toronto researchers found that automated technology could increase the capacity of parking sites by 62 percent. Mercedes-Benz and Bosch even have a trial smart parking program in the works in Stuttgart, Germany. Here is the full demo for the automated valet parking video:
The digital transformation for parking solutions is an ongoing process to establish more connectivity, better efficiency and smarter sustainability. For parking owners, it’s time to think beyond the parking system.
Please contact Kelvin Lim, Sales Manager, at kelvin.lim@timeteccloud.com or 012-6891180 for product presentation and demonstration appointments. You may also call 03-80709933 general line or write to info@timeteccloud.com for more information.
Stay tuned for the 12/12 series next Wednesday on Malaysiakini for TimeTec Smart Parking announcement. For the previous article, click this link:
About TimeTec TimeTec Group was established in 2000. Over 20 years, the Group had developed three homegrown globally recognized IT brands, FingerTec, TimeTec and iNeighbour, for workforce management, security, smart office, smart residential and smart township solutions unleashing the power of biometrics, cloud & edge computing, IoT and AI technologies. All these solutions connect and change the landscape of work life and home life in a larger ecosystem. Through a vast network, TimeTec Group distributes its biometric hardware products and 16 cloud applications, including IoT devices, to more than 150 countries worldwide. Visit our company websites: TimeTec Cloud, TimeTec Building, TimeTec Parking.
Various renowned clients have subscribed to TimeTec various solutions, including IOI Properties, Putrajaya Holdings, Ibraco, Binastra, Thriven, Hock Seng Lee, QSR Brands, Central Sugars Refinery CSR, Sunway Constructions, Mamee, Yakult, Nano Malaysia Berhad, and many more. The versatility and feasibility of TimeTec products also attract various international customers from all over the world, including Hong Kong, Dubai, Australia, Qatar, South Africa etc.
There is a famous valet parking joke based on a true story in the 60s, and it goes like this, "One night Frank Sinatra, the singer, walked out of The Peninsula Hotel and asked a valet parking attendant, 'What was the biggest tip you ever got?' When he said, '$100, Mr Sinatra,' the singer handed him $200 and then asked, 'Who gave you the $100 tip?' The attendant replied, 'It was you, Mr Sinatra.'"
Amazingly, some valet attendants do not only know their clients in person, but they are also well-trained and knowledgeable about nearly every make and model of vehicles, including the alarm systems and keyless ignitions, if not more.
"For parking business owner, valet parking is offered as an extra parking service or a separate entity to customers due to the skills set needed in valet attendants. Still, valet parking is treated as a non-core parking business compared to normal casual and season parking, and its parking module is never the main core module in a parking management system. Even though most parking sites are not offering valet services, for some hotels, nightclubs, hospitals, and shopping malls, valet parking is a compulsory service because valet parking adds a touch of luxury and convenience to car owners. What kind of a 5-star hotel does not provide valet parking service?" asked Teh Hon Seng, TimeTec Group CEO.
"In general, valet parking provides convenience and class. Patrons don't have to drive around looking for parking spots. Those who are in a hurry can leave their vehicles safely in the hands of the valet attendants; plus, it is handy for disabled drivers, and those who own luxury cars would want to arrive in style everywhere they go."
"In short, valet is a service created by inequalities of supply and demand. Valet offers an extra service for vehicle owners to park their cars safely, conveniently and instantly, and sometimes with style," said Teh.
Teh also stressed that valet parking is one of the TimeTec Smart Parking System modules to help valet parking owner eliminate the cash handling risk and be in line with the cashless trend. The operators that cover complete parking services can consolidate the parking revenues from casual, season, enforcement, and valet, all under one cloud platform.
TimeTec Valet Parking System comes together with two handheld TimeTec Valet POS terminals, with a built-in receipt printer that is PCI DSS compliance and accepting credit and debit card and e-Wallet cashless payment methods. In addition, bringing more convenience to customers, the receipt printer of TimeTec Valet Parking System also prints a QR code as an option for customers to scan and pay for the valet before picking up their car. The illustration below shows the process flow:
TimeTec Valet improves the daily operation efficiency of the business owner and provides payment convenience to the customers.
Please contact Kelvin Lim, Sales Manager, at kelvin.lim@timeteccloud.com or 012-6891180 for product presentation and demonstration appointments. You may also call 03-80709933 general line or write to info@timeteccloud.com for more information.
Stay tuned for the 11/12 series next Wednesday on Malaysiakini for TimeTec Smart Parking announcement. For the previous article, click this link:
About TimeTec TimeTec Group was established in 2000. Over 20 years, the Group had developed three homegrown globally recognized IT brands, FingerTec, TimeTec and iNeighbour, for workforce management, security, smart office, smart residential and smart township solutions unleashing the power of biometrics, cloud & edge computing, IoT and AI technologies. All these solutions connect and change the landscape of work life and home life in a larger ecosystem. Through a vast network, TimeTec Group distributes its biometric hardware products and 16 cloud applications, including IoT devices, to more than 150 countries worldwide. Visit our company websites: TimeTec Cloud, TimeTec Building, TimeTec Parking.
Various renowned clients have subscribed to TimeTec various solutions, including IOI Properties, Putrajaya Holdings, Ibraco, Binastra, Thriven, Hock Seng Lee, QSR Brands, Central Sugars Refinery CSR, Sunway Constructions, Mamee, Yakult, Nano Malaysia Berhad, and many more. The versatility and feasibility of TimeTec products also attract various international customers from all over the world, including Hong Kong, Dubai, Australia, Qatar, South Africa etc.
When the parking system started to move from cash to cashless, what are the significant differences besides the absence of physical currency? To be precise, the cash payment form is loosely attached to the parking system; the relationship is just in its tallying process. The complication of cash handling happens outside the parking system. After manually tallying the cash with the system, the off-system cash handling includes the risk of temporarily keeping the cash and transporting it to the bank by trusted personnel. Overall, it is a tedious daily routine.
In contrast, in a cashless system, the complication happens inside the system, where there is almost no “handling” job required for the cashless money after the system collects the fees. Instead, there are settlements between the bank/payment gateway provider and the parking owner/operator behind the scene, with the terms and conditions signed before adopting the cashless system.
TimeTec Group CEO Teh Hon Seng elaborated further on the complexity of cashless in parking systems, “Indeed, more security concerns when moving cash to a cashless system. The pivotal issues like protecting the electronic transaction data such as credit cards and mobile data between participating parties and avoiding the violation of personal data have to be addressed. The good thing is that all the related matters are taken care of in the highly regulated online payment system. For example, the use of credit cards in parking as cashless payment, it required The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard or PCI DSS compliance for its parking terminals.”
Teh Hon Seng explained the differences between cashless parking system and cashless merchant system, “It is far more complicated for a parking system to accommodate cashless payment than the normal merchant system. For example, the e-Wallet providers can go all out to acquire merchants. However, they can’t simply knock on the parking operators’ door and sign them up as merchants because the e-wallet must be seamlessly integrated with the parking access system. Besides, the parking transaction is not as simple as picking up merchandise and paying it according to the price tag when checking out. The date and time of a car entering a parking site have to be recorded, and the fee calculation is based on the duration and parking rate set by the parking owner when checking out. Furthermore, when the customers check in, the system has to verify the validity of the payment card and whether it has sufficient funds to pay when he/she checks out. That explains why the parking operator is charged a slightly higher MDR (Merchant Discount Rate) than normal merchants.”
The parking access cum cashless payment system flow is illustrated in the following diagram:
Touch ‘n Go card is one of its kind for parking payment systems. The payment process flow is almost similar to the credit/debit card, and it is more widely used than credit/debit card in Malaysia’s parking industry.
The main advantage of the above cashless payment system embedded into the parking access system is that there is no payment process between entry and exit.
When the License Plate Recognition or LPR is used as a parking access method, the cashless payment system is less attached. The common practice now is that the back-end parking system will link to an online payment portal consolidated with multiple payment methods. The customer can choose which payment method he/she prefers before exiting the parking site.
Teh Hon Seng said, “As one of the pioneers that provide cashless parking solutions, TimeTec Smart Parking System caters to all the above. Besides providing the unattended parking kiosk that combines Touch ‘n Go solution, credit/debit reader and QR code reader for e-Wallet into one kiosk, we are also an expert in LPR parking solution, and its payment system.”
Please contact Kelvin Lim, Sales Manager, at kelvin.lim@timeteccloud.com or 012-6891180 for product presentation and demonstration appointments. You may also call 03-80709933 general line or write to info@timeteccloud.com for more information.
Stay tuned for the 10/12 series next Wednesday on Malaysiakini for TimeTec Smart Parking announcement. For the previous article, click this link:
About TimeTec TimeTec Group was established in 2000. Over 20 years, the Group had developed three homegrown globally recognized IT brands, FingerTec, TimeTec and iNeighbour, for workforce management, security, smart office, smart residential and smart township solutions unleashing the power of biometrics, cloud & edge computing, IoT and AI technologies. All these solutions connect and change the landscape of work life and home life in a larger ecosystem. Through a vast network, TimeTec Group distributes its biometric hardware products and 16 cloud applications, including IoT devices, to more than 150 countries worldwide. Visit our company websites: TimeTec Cloud, TimeTec Building, TimeTec Parking.
Various renowned clients have subscribed to TimeTec various solutions, including IOI Properties, Putrajaya Holdings, Ibraco, Binastra, Thriven, Hock Seng Lee, QSR Brands, Central Sugars Refinery CSR, Sunway Constructions, Mamee, Yakult, Nano Malaysia Berhad, and many more. The versatility and feasibility of TimeTec products also attract various international customers from all over the world, including Hong Kong, Dubai, Australia, Qatar, South Africa etc.
TimeTec Group ventured into the revolutionary biometrics technology at the beginning of the new millennium with specialization in workforce time & attendance and office door access system. Having established a strong biometrics brand worldwide via FingerTec, TimeTec Group explores the next big thing in technology; Cloud, IoT and AI. Starting in 2014, the Company has been introducing a variety of cloud solutions for a diverse range of industries around the world. TimeTec is a trusted brand for the workforce management, security, smart office, smart residential and smart township solutions. With a vast knowledge of the industries and expertise in advance technology, TimeTec pledges to deliver solutions that fulfill the demands of tomorrow.
