In a chaotic mess of fast-paced urban lifestyles burdened with the added stress of Covid protocols, it is a welcome relief when a little bit of technology goes a long way in solving our critical problems.
While housing societies in metropolitans have been at the forefront of adopting new technologies and innovations, tier II, III and IV cities are steadily catching up.
Some of the most remarkable examples of current tech being used in gated premises are:
- High mounted smart motion sensor CCTV cameras
- Electric Vehicle (EV) Charger
- Aerobic composting units
- Smart water and electricity meters
- Rainwater harvesting
- Smart building technologies
And these are the big-ticket items. Housing societies have started using technology at affordable rates for running the entire financial, operational, communication, logistics and security systems
in order to automate the operations and make them smoother.
Residents of all kinds of societies already use apps for personal use like ordering food, groceries and cabs online, as well as using mobile wallets for contactless payments, productivity and diet/health monitoring tools and streaming/gaming apps.
Covid-19 crisis has forced the Managing Committees across societies to further adopt the use of technology out of necessity and the ease of convenience that digitisation brings. Home security and The booming app ecosystem in the country has seen a new category entrant in enterprise scale residential society management which is being touted as the future of digitised community living. After all, a gated society is similar to an organization with its diverse needs as per different types of population. What's needed is a solution that is quick, efficient and easy to use.
One such boon for housing societies is an intelligent society management Enterprise Resource Planning app with MyGate leading the race currently as India's No 1 end to end solution for society management.
Gated societies have welcomed this technology after experiencing positive results at affordable monthly subscription plans and 100% data security (private cloud hosting) and two factor authentication. The primary features of the apartment management app are:
Automated gatekeeping with fail-proof safety protocols
The app works in a passcode verification system in which the resident sends a one-time passcode to the visitor which gets verified at the guard on his app.
Frequent visitors like domestic staff and daily suppliers are given a unique passcode for entry.
Additional features like gate pass, selfie based staff attendance, visitor overstay alert, child security protocol, panic alert, group pass for hired contractors, make security and privacy highly unbreachable, which generates a safe and happy environment.
Managing Committee's dream tool
An incredibly intuitive Admin Dashboard for the Managing Committee makes it a breeze to:
Manage Flats, Towers, Gates, Parking
Handle owners and tenants (including documents, financial transactions)
Get neatly categorised reports on Visitor Log View & download, Vehicle Movement Log, Gate Pass Log, Investigation Page, Empty Flats Visit Log, etc.
Manage society staff attendance and get detailed reports with flexibility to define multiple configurable shifts for different types of staff.
Get unlimited emails and SMS alerts in-app
Streamline tenant move in move out protocols
Accounting tasks simplified in a few steps
No need to use disparate accounting software as society ERP apps come embedded with fully customisable accounting suite for:
- Scheduling targeted, automated monthly maintenance bills as per individual flats or towers
- Collection, advance, arrears and dues reports
- Charging penalties to defaulters
- GST calculations, Chart of accounts for preconfigured society accounting activities and generate reports like BS, P&L, GST Report, TDS Report, etc.
- Organized day books, general ledgers and income/expense/trial balance reports that require least effort
- Integrated payment gateways for in-app payments
Covid management and partner tie-ups for a future-proof community living
Society management apps like MyGate can facilitate digital publication of quarantined apartments and containment zones in your premises to monitor restricted movement.
Contactless deliveries from Swiggy, Zomato (and other reputed partners), emergency medical services from StanPlus, Portea and Nightingales, M-fine for discounted health check-ups.
Amenities, parking and complaint management
Society ERP apps have integrated workflows for
Amenities booking via an in-app calendar
- Residents can check available slots and book their preferred slots
- Admin can restrict the number of slots per apartment per month to assure fair allotment
- Parking management
- Guards can retrieve the owners through the app if the vehicle isn't parked correctly
- Automatic dynamic update of remaining visitor parking spots based on entry/exit of vehicles
- Complaint management
- Residents can raise tickets for complaints like broken plumbing, electrical/lift/asset malfunction or maintenance complaints
- App assigns the complaint to the right maintenance representative
- Residents can track the status of their complaint (as Open, Closed, In Progress) and re-raise it if the outcome is not satisfactory.
Society Management Apps like MyGate integrate technology like vehicle identification technology, and Behavioural Intelligence Augmented Authentication, along with advanced encryption measures to intuitively and securely build a digital foundation for handling every functional and administrative need of a housing society.
How MyGate App Ensures Security and Simplifies Community Living
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mv7YuoYLDrA
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