The present invention discloses a system (100) for managing a parking lot (101), the system (100) comprising a plurality of parking zones (102), each parking zone (102) has a pre-defined parking rate; a plurality of first image acquisition devices (103), each being assigned to one of the parking zones (102) configured to capture a first image containing an identifier of the vehicle when the vehicle enters the corresponding parking zone (102); a second image acquisition device (104) configured to capture a second image containing the identifier of the vehicle when the vehicle exits the parking lot (101); and a server operably connected to the first (103) and second image acquisition devices (104), wherein the server comprises a data acquisition module configured to record at least one entry data of the vehicle entering the corresponding parking zone (102) based on the first image and an exit data of the vehicle exiting the parking lot (101) based on the second image, and a calculation module configured to determine a parking fare of the vehicle corresponding to the one or more parking zones (102) entered by the vehicle based on the recorded entry data and the recorded exit data of the vehicle.

The present invention discloses a method for facilitating a parking lot payment service, the method comprises the steps of: capturing one or more first images of a vehicle by a first camera (3) at an entrance (1) of a parking lot and one or more second images of the vehicle from a video stream of the first camera (3) by a server (5); performing a first vehicle plate recognition algorithm on the one or more first images by a processor of the first camera (3) and a second vehicle plate recognition algorithm on the one or more second images by the server (5) to respectively obtain a first vehicle plate recognition result and a second vehicle plate recognition result; extracting date and time information respectively from the one or more first and second images; initiating a parking fare payment process upon being triggered by a user (7) via a payment interface (6); and recording both the first and second vehicle plate recognition results to a paid record database so that a vehicle, whose vehicle plate is verified by a second camera (4) at an exit (2) of the parking lot to match with either the first vehicle plate recognition result, the second vehicle plate recognition result, or both, can exit the parking lot.

The present invention provides a system (100) and method for managing user’s safety during a distress event comprising the steps of triggering, via a first application module (111) installed in a first user device (110), an alarm during the distress event, by a first user; transmitting, by the first application module (111), the triggered alarm details to a server (120); forwarding, by the server (120) an alarm notification to a second user via a second user device (130) based on the received alarm details, where the second user is a registered user with the server (120);submitting, via a second application module (131) installed in the second user device (130), a report about their safety status to the server (120) by the second user upon receiving the alarm notification; and, reviewing, via the first application module (111), the report of each second user with the list of registered second user by the first user, for checking if there are any second user who are yet to submit the report on their safety status.

The present invention provides a system (100) and method to interlink at least two accounts comprising: a first application module installed in a first user device, configured display a request to initialise connection with a selected residential management server (140) in which a residence account is registered, from an alarm account upon the first user logged into it, where the alarm account is a registered with an alarm server (120). The alarm server (120), configured to establish a communication with the selected residential management server (140) upon activation of the request; prompt the first user to provide login credentials related to the residence account into the alarm account; and forward the provided login credentials to the residential management server (140); and the residential management server (140), configured to verify and authenticate whether the received login credentials of the residence account are valid; pair the alarm account and the residence account together based on the verification result, by exchanging configuration information; forward the received alarm notification along residence details to a second user device, from the alarm server (120) upon the alarm account and the residence account are successful paired.

The present invention discloses a method for providing a network alarm service which is interlinked with a security patrol system server (120), the method is characterized by the steps in the sequence set forth: receiving, by a registering module (112) of a network alarm system server (110), a registering request from a user for activating the network alarm service; prompting, by the registering module (112), the user to provide a unique verification code generated by the security patrol system server (120); transmitting, by a communication module (113) of the network alarm system server (110), the provided verification code to the security patrol system server (120) for verification and authentication; upon the communication module (113) receives a notification of a successful verification of the transmitted code from the security patrol system server (120), establishing, by the communication module (113), a network link between the network alarm system server (110) and the security patrol system server (120); and pairing, by a pairing module, the network alarm system server (110) and the security patrol system server (120) by exchanging configuration information between the two servers (110,120) through the network link in a way such that the security patrol system server (120) can act upon receiving an alert notification generated by the network alarm system server (110).

The present invention provides a system (100) and method for processing of mileage claims comprising: a first user device (110) installed with a first application module (111) configured to capture start location details and end location details during a travel undertaken by a first user; and, submit the captured details to a server (120) upon completion of the travel by the first user, for mileage claim amount processing. The server (120) comprising a mileage claim report generation module (121) configured to calculate total distance of the travel based on the submitted details; generate a report on mileage claim amount based on the calculated distance by referring to pre-stored claim rules and claim calculation formula in a rules database (150) and a claim calculation database (160) respectively, where the server (120) is in communication with the rules database (150) and the claim calculation database (160); and, transmit the generated report to a second user device (130) for second user’s review and approval.

The present invention discloses a system (100) and method for sharing the parking space comprising: a first user device (110) installed with an application module (111), configured to submit a request to a server (140) for renting their parking space, by a first user, where access rights related to the parking space is stored in the server (140); and the server (140) upon the request received from the first user is approved by an administrator, configured to display the parking space; allows a second user to select the displayed parking space using a second user device (120) installed with an application module (121) and receives a request to access the selected parking space from the second user via the second user device (120); forwards the received request from the second user to the first user, for seeking approval from the first user whether to grant the second user with access to the selected parking space and transmits the access rights to the second user device (120) upon the request is approved by the first user.

The present invention discloses acommunity-based delivery system comprisinga server (1) in communication with one or more distinct residential community platforms (2), in which each residential community platform (2) having a plurality of registered merchants (3) which are accessible by one or more users (4) of the respective residential community; wherein the server (1) includes a purchase module (10) for allowing the users (4) to purchase the goods and/or services from the merchant (3); and a delivery module for managing delivery services of the purchased goods and/or services;wherein the delivery module is further configured to provide an option where the users (4) can designate another user, which is associated with a respective address, within the same residential community as an alternate receiverfor the delivery of the purchased goods and/or services.

The present invention discloses a system (100) and a method, to enable access to an area comprises: a data acquisition module (120) arranged in a mobile computing device (110), configured to receive an access related data from an user, whereby the mobile computing device (110) is installed with an application module (130) is in 10 communication with the data acquisition module (120). The application module (130) comprises: a template conversion module (132), configured to convert the received data into a pre-defined template; an authentication module (133), configured to determine whether the user is allowed to access the area based on the received template, by communicating with a database server (140) and an access control 15 module (135), configured to transmit an access signal to a controller (150) for permitting the user to access the area based on the determined result.

The present invention discloses a computer-implemented method for monitoring activities of patrols within a predetermined compound comprising the steps of tracking, via a waypoint location module (10), location of dedicated mobile device in real time; calculating, via an administrator module (20), an idle time of the mobile device when the location of the mobile device remains stationary over a predetermined period of time; determining, via administrator module (20), abnormally of the respective patrol based on calculated idle time; tracking, via a tracking module (30), activities of the guard mobile device upon the occurrence of abnormal event; analysing, via the administrator module (20), the tracked activities of the guard mobile device to determine safety adequacy of the patrols; and updating, via a reporting module (40), the safefy adequancy of the patrols based on the analysis.

The present invention discloses a computer-implemented method for providing 5 remote access control by voice command and voice recognition, the method comprising the following steps in the sequence set forth: detecting, by a transceiver of a mobile device (20), at least one controller (10) of remote access control system within a predetermined radial distance and establishes a communication link automatically to at least one detected controller using a short range communication 10 protocol for retrieving information relating to the at least one detected controller; determining, by an application of the mobile device, whether the at least one detected controller is a pre-assigned controller by comparing the retrieved controller information to a pre-stored template; prompting, by the application of the mobile device, a user (20) to complete a voice authentication on the mobile device 15 automatically upon the detection of pre-assigned controller (10); and transmitting, by transceiver of the mobile device, an instruction to the pre-assigned controller using the short range communication protocol to provide an accessibility of the remote access control system to the user according to the user’s access level upon successful authentication.

The present invention discloses a computer-implemented method for authenticating access via contactless short-range communication, the method comprising the following steps in the sequence set forth : detecting, by a transceiver of a mobile device (30), at least one controller (10) of an access control system within a predetermined radial distance through a first short-range communication protocol and 10 establishes a communication link automatically to at least one detected controller (10);identifying, by an application of the mobile device (30), at least one designated controller (10) for an access of a user based on comparison of the at least one detected controller (10) against pre-stored authentication information; prompting, by the application of the mobile device (30), the user to verify a tag in proximity to its 15 correspondence designated controller (10) through a second short-range communication protocol initiated automatically upon identification of the designated controller (10); and transmitting, by the mobile device (30), an instruction to the designated controller (10) using the first and second short-range communication protocols to provide an accessibility to the user according to the user’s access level 20 upon successful authentication.

A time attendance tracking method is provided by which a hand-held device is set as a primary device or a secondary device based on inherent mobile identity of the hand-held device and operable in either a first mode or a second mode. The first mode permits the user to clock-in or clock-out for attendance recording for the user tied account while the second mode restricts the user to clock-in or clock-out for attendance recording for the user tied account. The most illustrative drawing: Figure 2

The present invention discloses an electronic platform system comprises one or more cloud database (140) connected to a communication network (130); a store platform (201) connected to cloud database (140) via the communication network (130), configured to display a list of products and/or services for an user to select; a payment platform (202) connected to the store platform (201) via the communication network (130), configured to allow the user to make a purchase directly from the store platform (201); and an application server (200) connected to the cloud database (140) via the communication network (130), wherein the application server (200) comprises: a camera module (203) configured to communicate with at least one camera (110), retrieve visual and/or audio data from the camera (110), store the visual and/or audio data in the cloud database (140), a codec processing unit (204) for encoding or decoding the stored visual and/or audio data, and a web server (205) for a computing device of the user (120) to retrieve or display the stored visual and/or audio data from the cloud database (140) or display the visual and/or audio data directly from the camera (110) in real time.

A time and attendance recording system comprising a computing apparatus in communication with a database, which stores a plurality of registered user identities and each registered user identity is tied to an account; a time clock, connected to the computing apparatus, configured to send a user identity to the computing apparatus upon receiving the user identity from a user and the sent user identity is tagged with a timestamp recording the time and date which the user identity is received; wherein the computing apparatus is operative to verify the sent user identity against the registered user identities; determine an attendance status, check-in or check-out, of the user by comparing the tagged timestamp against a predetermined time interval which is assigned with the attendance status, characterized in that the attendance status in the system is free from user intervention. No Illustration For Abstract.

This disclosure describes an attendance system comprising a target device installed at a location that has a NFC tag and a processor; a mobile device incorporated with NFC module having a unique identification information of a user, and configured to communicate with the target device through performing an action to bring the NFC module in close proximity with the NFC tag when the user checks in or out from the location; and a central station defining at least a server wirelessly connected to the processor with a database for storing data related to the attendance event, identification information of the user and location of the target device; wherein the mobile device is incorporated with a positioning module for detecting position of the user such that the attendance event is recorded when the position of the user matches with the location of the target device that defines an allowable user position which is preset using the positioning module and stored in the database, and the unique identification information from the NFC module corresponds with the identification information of the user that is saved in the database.

A system for collecting and transferring electronic information comprising: one or more servers (200), having one or more centralized databases for storing and/or retrieving the data, connected to a network (500); one or more computing devices (300) connected to the servers (200) via the network (500) for retrieving the data from the centralized databases; a plurality of biometric devices (100) connected to the servers via the network (500), located at different locations, and each biometric device (100) comprises: means for identifying users based on biometric data of the users; means for storing the biometric data and activity information of the users; and means for sending the biometric data and activity information to the servers (200), in communication with the servers (200) in real time via the network (500); characterized in that the biometric devices (100) are configured to identify a user based on the biometric data, and collect activity information of the user, following which real time activity information together with the corresponding biometric data of the user is sent to the servers (200) based on HTTP PUSH protocol; wherein the activity information and the biometric data of the users are stored in the centralized databases of the servers (200) and are enabled to be retrieved by the computing devices (300).

The present invention discloses a biometric device (1) incorporated with an android platform for time and attendance application, the biometric device (1) comprising: one or more biometric sensing module (2, 3) for receiving biometric and time attendance data of an user; an attendance module (10) integrated with one or more predetermined rules for organizing and managing the received data in a way such that the organized data can be directly used in payroll calculation and generation of attendance report; a scheduling module (11) for managing and implementing the predetermined rules; a duty rosters module (12) configured to receive information relating to duty rosters, holidays, and leaves from the user, and to transmit the received information to the scheduling module (11); a payroll module (14) for calculating paychecks of the user based on the organized data; a reporting module (15) configured to generate attendance reports and to export the generated attendance reports in a designated form; and a display module (16) for displaying the outputs of the modules.

The present invention discloses a method for automatically recording time attendance of a user comprising the steps of: accepting, by a biometric device, biometric data and entry time data of the user; transmitting, by the biometric device, the accepted data to a processor via a communication network; comparing, by the processor, the accepted data with those stored in a database to identify the user and a corresponding working schedule of the user; applying, by the processor, a set of predefined rules based on the working schedule of the user to a time attendance template of the user; and organizing, by the processor, the entry time data of the user into the time attendance template of the user.

The present invention discloses a method for electronic attendance recording including at least one mobile device, comprises the steps of activating a local positioning system of the mobile device to acquire position information of the mobile device; and determining movements of the mobile device based on the acquired position information; characterised in that in the event that the mobile device passes through at least one boundary pre-defined by geo-fencing technique, it causes the mobile device to temporarily activate an indoor positioning system or a global positioning system for retrieving position information with higher accuracy than the local positioning system, and then generates an attendance record based on the retrieved position information.

The present invention discloses a system and method for recording electronic attendance, the method comprises the following steps in the sequence set forth: establishing, by a mobile device, a communication link between a server and the mobile device; activating, an application of the mobile device via an verification process; upon activation of the application, detecting and identifying, by the application, a checkpoint station carrying information relating to a checkpoint identifier; establishing, by the mobile device, a communication link between the checkpoint station and the mobile device for data transmission; reading, by the application, information relating to the checkpoint identifier from the checkpoint station; generating, by the application, an encrypted attendance record; transmitting, by the application, the encrypted attendance record to the server via the communication network; decrypting, by a decoder of the server, the encrypted attendance record; and updating, by the server, the record to an attendance report of an account.

The present disclosure relates to a comprehensive system and associated method (100) for real-time monitoring and management of the patrolling operations by a number of security personnel. The present system (100) includes one or more 10 electronic communication devices (102) that are configured to run a security patrol management application. The system (100) further includes a centralized server (104) running a server side security patrol management application capable of directly communicating with the security patrol management application running on the electronic communication devices (102). The server side security patrol management 15 application includes a number of features that allows the administrators or managers for monitoring and managing the operations of the security personnel through an interactive visual interface of the application. The server side security patrol management application is a cloud-based application to collect a variety of information to monitor and manage the patrolling operations of the security personnel 20 in real-time.

The present invention is a security management system of a restricted-access facility that comprises at least a security node operated by a security officer; at least an occupant node operated by an occupant of the facility; at least a visitor node operated by a visitor; one or more servers having at least one processor and a database, operative to process information including visit data being any one or combination of a visit invitation to the visitor node from the occupant node, a visit request to the occupant from the visitor node or from the visitor through the security node, and generate a visitor pass defined by a QR code; and an online platform operated by the server and accessible by the security node, occupant node and visitor node, capable of receiving information inputs 15 and displaying the information. The QR code is downloaded to the visitor node to be scanned by the security node as validation of the security pass for allowing access of the visitor into the facility upon acceptance of the visit request by the occupant node or visit invitation by the visitor node.

The present invention discloses a control system (100) for door lock comprising a server (110);a controller (140) linked to the server (110); anda mobile device (160) having: an application for user to trigger a door unlocking process, means for collecting biometric information of the user, a Bluetooth module to establish a Bluetooth communication link (150) between the mobile device (160) and the controller (140);and wherein door unlocking process includes: the mobile device (160) performs an biometric authentication to verify the user and then transmits an instruction to the controller (140) via the Bluetooth link (150); and the controller (140) upon receiving the instruction, performs a second authentication to verify the user's accessibility and then unlock the door based on the outcomes of the authentications.

The present invention discloses an alarm system comprises a plurality of alarm 5 sensors (101), each having a Bluetooth module to establish communication link using a Bluetooth protocol to at least one neighbouring sensor (101) in a way such that a Bluetooth Mesh Network is formed, and a controller (201) connected to the Bluetooth Mesh Network, configured to monitor and manage the status of each alarm sensor (101) and to trigger at least one alarm device (102) based on the status of the alarm 10 sensors (101), wherein the status data of each alarm sensor (101) is transmitted to the controller (201), and vice versa, instructions of the controller (201) are transmitted to at leastone sensor (101) via the Bluetooth Mesh Network.

The present invention discloses a method for providing access control to delivery service providers comprising selecting (102), by a logged-in user (208) through a platform (203), a delivery provider (207) for a delivery service; generating (106), by a server (201), an access code and transmits the access code to the selected delivery provider (207); and providing, by the delivery provider (207), the access code to an access point to obtain for passing through the access point (205)

The present invention discloses a method for recording attendance using Bluetooth-enable mobile devices comprising the steps in the sequence set forth: triggering (104,105), by a logged-in user, a respective mobile device to detect for surrounding Bluetooth beacons, wherein different user account each is assigned with their respective list of Bluetooth beacons for triggering the attendance recording; comparing (106), by 10 the respective mobile device, the detected list of Bluetooth beacons with the assigned list of Bluetooth beacons of the corresponding user account and only retrieves one or more Bluetooth beacon IDs from Bluetooth beacons that are assigned to the corresponding user account; and forwarding (107), by the respective mobile device, the retrieved Bluetooth beacon ID(s) together with a retrieval timestamp to an administrator 15 server for generating an attendance record.(Fig. 1)