Queue Management System and Social Distancing

These days Social Distancing is mandatory at all public places or crowded areas, which can be easily enforced if we are using an appropriate queue management system. There are businesses and organizations who are using a completely customized queuing system for their customers and queue managements but enforcing social distancing is a bit difficult with an ordinary QMS. That is why we have innovated a completely new to the market solution for Social Distancing and Queue Management System.

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The Social Distancing Queue Management System is equipped with a very intelligent QMS program and a variety of hardware-based aids. The agent dashboard is upgraded along with the online signups and real-time updates of the active queues make it more suitable for enforcing the social distancing at the branch. The system is designed to be more flexible towards planned visits and management of the visitors to ensure social distancing.

Our Queue Management System is equipped with a smartphone application which provides real-time data and updates about the capacity of the branch, active queues at any given time, peak hours information and much more, which help the visitors to plan their visits ahead and schedule them as per their convenience, this helps to reduce the crowd in the waiting areas and lobbies.

The system also supports virtual queuing, which allows the visitors to sign-up online, from the smartphone app, QR Code, a call or an SMS. This also helps to maintain the number of visitors in the branch on any given point of time, to maintain a safe environment which ensures social distancing. The Social Distancing enabled Queue Management System also help agents to update the customers if any delay occurs or let them prepare the service ahead of time to minimize the visit duration of a customer. This also reduces the congestion at any time and as the visitors can get real-time updates for the capacity and a current number of people in the facility they can choose the best time to come, either they can wait at home/office or even in the parking lot before entering the building, which ensures the visitor will have to spend the possible minimum time in the branch during their visit.

The system is equipped with a very smart and intelligent software program which can automate the process to reduce the service delivery time. The system is capable of working on the semi-autonomous mode by following the protocols and configurations set by the administration. The branch manager or the area manager or the head-office can monitor all the activities in real-time and can also handle things from their respective point of authority if needed. This not only ensures the safety of the customers/visitors but also the safety of the staff.

The Social Distancing enabled Queue Management System not only help to implement the social distancing in the branch but it also helps businesses to not to compromise on the user journey and user experience, in fact, it improved the user experience to a great extent. The system is very flexible and the control panel of the software allows the administrator to configure the system as per their needs and requirements. Even after this whole scenario is over and the things will get normalized our Queue Management System can work as a normal queue management system the difference is its highly advance features and agent dashboard will let the businesses reduce the service delivery time by 30% to 50% in some cases and along with the planned visits, remote sign-ups, real-time updates and other features enhance the user experience to a significant level.

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How queue management system used in social distancing?

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Social Distancing Queuing Systems are the queue management systems with advance software and hardware features to let businesses easily implement social distancing without effecting the customer journey and experience. The customer journey and their experience while visiting your branch can build or ruin a brand name in a matter of months. And on the other hand, implementing the social distancing to prevent the spread of COVID-19 or Corona Virus is critically important too. So, there should be a queue management system which enhances the customer journey and also ensures social distancing. This is why we have innovated the Social Distancing Queuing System which is built specifically to address this issue. Not only that, once the COVID-19 scenario is over the same system can work as a standard queue management system without requiring any upgrade/downgrade or modifications.

Contact-free Queue Management System & Solution for Social Distancing

The Contact-free Queue Management System & Solution for Social Distancing provides more control over the customers by various means of software and online services integrations. The system only allows customers whenever they are called to prevent crowded waiting areas and lobbies. The software is massively upgraded to provide more control and automated control for crowd management and active queue management. Here are some of the ingredients which can be used to achieve a semi-autonomous or fully autonomous contact-free queue management system for social distancing:

  1. Autonomous Crowd Control (Programmable)
  2. Automatic real-time load management and load balancing for active queue
  3. Upgraded Agent dashboard with advance control features
  4. Online check-ins and real-time updated for the customers via SMS/mobile applications
  5. Real-time updates for the branch manager and head-office management
  6. Audio-Visual Aids and Sign Displays
  7. Multi-lingual Ticket Calling
  8. Safe Distance Floor Markers for ensuring social distancing in the queues and throughout the premises
  9. A variety of Posts and Barriers to control the queue route
  10. Sign Posts and Poster Mounts to convey important messages to the customers and the staff

Online sign-ups via the website, SMS, call or the mobile application along with the real-time queue updates and status helps to enforce the social distancing and also ensures less time spent by the customers in the branch. The real-time updates are also for the branch managers and the head-office to let them monitor everything. Our Social Distancing Queue Management System &Solution automates most of the processes hence it doesn’t require more staff or doesn’t increase the workload of the agents, in fact, various test scenarios proved that the system is even more efficient and autonomous that it decreases the workload of the staff and agents at the branch. This also reduces the customer’s waiting time and improve their experience.

What about our existing queue management system?

Well, most of our solutions and products are built on a modular approach which means that if you are running an older version of RSI Queue Management System, it can be upgraded, even if you have a different brand, we may be able to re-use some or most of the component and the upgrade will going to cost you way too less then implementing a completely new system.

Do we have to decommission the social distancing queue management system after the corona crisis?

Absolutely No. As I have mentioned above, our contact-free or social distancing queue management system is just an enhanced or upgraded version of our standard queue management system &solution with some special add-ons and a slight variation of the hardware but with a huge software upgrade so, it can operate as a standard queuing management system without bearing any additional cost or any downgrade, all you need is to change the mode from the software settings. The new add-ons and the advance features will also help to improve the customer experience even operating in the standard queue management system mode as well.

Conclusion

Till date, the world is suffering from the consequences of this pandemic, and we still have no possible cure for it. As the economies worldwide are souring so we will have to find out a way to bypass this so we can move normally with our daily life. Although it could be hard we will have to act wisely. Such solutions and products are the contribution from IT innovating companies and with a collective effort from all, we can easily move forward. No matter we find the cure next month or next year, we will have to move on.

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