🚨 The Problem
Long Waiting Times: Public service queues can result in significant waiting times, leading to customer dissatisfaction and inefficiency in handling large volumes of visitors.
Crowd Management Issues: In high-traffic environments, managing crowds manually can lead to confusion, disorder, and potential safety risks, particularly during peak hours or crises.
Lack of Real-Time Data: Manual queue systems don't provide real-time insights into customer flow, wait times, or service bottlenecks, making it difficult to optimize operations and manage customer expectations.
Challenges in Ensuring Security and Proper Identification: Verifying the identity of individuals in public service queues manually can be time-consuming, prone to fraud, and may raise security concerns.
Overburdened Staff and Resource Constraints: Staff members may be overwhelmed by the complexity of managing queues manually, leading to stress and inefficiency, especially during peak hours.
Fragmented Service Points: Multiple service points and different processes may create confusion, leading to a fragmented experience for the public, with no clear direction or structure for service delivery.
🎯 Overall Objectives
Reduce Waiting Times: To shorten customer wait times by organizing and optimizing the queue flow, improving overall customer satisfaction and reducing congestion.
Improve Crowd Management: To manage and control crowds effectively, minimizing disorder and ensuring safety, especially during high-traffic times or emergencies.
Provide Real-Time Insights and Data: To collect real-time data on queue status, wait times, and customer flow, allowing for better decision-making and adjustments to improve service delivery.
Ensure Fair and Transparent Queueing: To create a transparent and orderly queueing process, ensuring fairness in the distribution of service and eliminating bias or confusion.
Increase Security and Customer Identification: To incorporate smart card technology to securely verify customer identity, ensuring that services are provided to the right individuals.
Support Scalable Operations: To develop a system that can handle increasing numbers of customers and scale with growing demand, ensuring the system remains effective over time.
Enhance Customer Satisfaction: To improve overall customer experience by providing a faster, more organized, and more predictable service process, which contributes to higher levels of satisfaction.
🌟 Success Metrics
Average Wait Time: Measure the reduction in average wait time for customers. A decrease in waiting time would indicate the system’s effectiveness in streamlining queues.
Queue Throughput: Track the number of customers served within a specific time frame. An increase in throughput would suggest that the system efficiently handles a larger volume of customers.
Customer Satisfaction Score: Collect feedback from customers regarding their experience with the queue system. Higher satisfaction scores would reflect improved customer experience and reduced frustration.
System Uptime and Availability: Monitor the percentage of time the KIOSK system is fully operational without downtime. Higher uptime would indicate system reliability and robustness.
Queue Process Efficiency: Measure the time it takes to process each customer from ticket generation to service completion. A reduction in processing time would indicate that the system is improving operational efficiency.
Adoption Rate of Smart Cards: Measure the percentage of customers using smart cards for identification and queue management. A high adoption rate would suggest the success of the smart card integration and its appeal to customers.
Real-Time Data Utilization: Assess how effectively real-time data (e.g., queue length, wait times) is being used for operational decision-making. Better decision-making based on real-time data would reflect the system’s value in improving operations.
Queue Abandonment Rate: Monitor the number of customers who leave the queue before being served. A decrease in the abandonment rate would indicate that the system is improving service speed and customer engagement.
🎭 Users
BI internal team and public
🎉 Output
Some snips of what has been accomplished
🌐 Link
Available only on BI's kiosk infrastructure