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Access to the Internet and digital technologies has become essential for most of us in our everyday lives. Wi-Fi technology enables us to work, shop, communicate and access important services.
For those fortunate enough to have meaningful connectivity during pandemic, the internet provides a crucial link to information that helps us keep our families healthy and safe during this global health crisis. With social distancing measures the new norm across the globe, we are living our lives online. From online learning to working from home, online classes, live streamed religious services, and the web connects us to loved ones in this time of physical isolation.
The Founder of Synchroweb Technology, Pang Wee Taksaidwhen you have something everyone wants, you need to control who has access to it. Castles have moats, the subway has turnstiles, and enterprise grade Wi-Fi networks have captive portals.
Kiwire and Omaya—the software constituting a plethora of modules offered by the company—facilitate the deployment of customized Wi-Fi services and solutions.Though not its most apparent benefit, the captive portal can be used as an effective marketing tool in a variety of ways.
From cars to jewellery, people love custom things. As long as you are providing WI-FI, why not make it something your guests will love? Why not allow them to customize their wireless network usage plan? Captive portals can facilitate this.Kiwire enables clients to provide free or pay- per use plans for customers to access internet services while complying with the hardware used by the network.
Nowadays, all companies provide their customers with Wi-Fi in some form or another. We find it in shopping malls, airports, restaurants, offices and even on transport. It is fair to say that Wi-Fi has become a commodity.
“Most customers wants to connect to Wi-Fi services in the simplest way possible. Therefore, their preferred methods of accessing them might be an open Wi-Fi network or a password posted on a poster on the wall. The usual way of offering Wi-Fi to guests is through a captive portal.”said Pang Wee Tak.
Kiwirecaptive portal can be specially programmed to allow an end user to select the WI-FI experience that best suits them. It simplifies the login process by providing access to the captive Wi-Fi portals through social media logins and in turn, provides seamless internet broadcasting channels regardless of the hardware components that constitute the network. The network is then monetized by incorporating market strategies bundled with cross-selling of value-added schemes and services.
Omaya on the other hand serves as a monitoring application that detects customer access and assists in analysis of the user behaviour. By utilizing the foot traffic, user data, and customer demographics, Omaya allows the clients to provide exclusive privileges and value-added services to the customers.
The software enables monetization of network and facilitates optimization strategies to enhance campaign management services provided to the loyalty customers. “A client wanted to increase the number loyalty customer by giving free Wi- Fi as rewards for the users. Our solutions helped them to increase their loyalty user/customers by 20 percent,” adds Pang Wee Tak.
Despite of Covid-19 pandemic, we have successfullyreleased the latest version of Omaya. One of them is Omaya Workspace. This version is acomplete solution that cater for worker or visitor the moment they walk into the workstation, from automatic time attendance, employee & asset management. Among the most advantages of our solutions is they can eliminate your need for a time clock.
Omaya fill that role for you with no effort needed by the employee other than to show up for work. With the governor policy, you can set policy for social distancing using Omaya software when the numbers employee or visitor are found within a room are in adequate example a 200 sqft meeting are allowed for not more than 3 persons.
Next version is Omaya Vision which an entirely separate tech than other edition counterparts by utilizing visual recording and facial/body recognition capabilities when paired with video camera devices.Omaya Vision offers a hand in establishing an unprecedented level of control over the pandemic situation by employing facial recognition along with a number of associated technologies.With the cameras connected to the Omaya system detect and identify people in the place in real time allowing for immediate response, while the AI analyzes social connections.
Kiwire and Omaya allows clients to exercise the capabilities of the captive portals and provide value added services to their customers by obtaining a demographic data of the users. As Wi-Fi hotspots and public internet facilities have now become mainstream amenities, Synchroweb Technology aspires to cater to their rising demand byexpanding their service horizon. The company aims to expand in developing nations and European markets after firmly establishing itself in Malaysia, Singapore, and Indonesia.