Recently, the Ministry of Health’s (MOH) smoking ban in all eateries and has been in full swing since 1 January. The ban covers all restaurants and hawker stalls in Malaysia, including all air-conditioned and open-air restaurants, coffee shops, hawker centers, and street stalls.

Unlike at some airports and cities around the world, currently, there are no designated smoking areas, thus smokers are allowed to carry out their habit at least three meters (10 feet) away from eateries.

“However, an enforcement action in these six months will focus on educating the public and restaurant owners so that they are aware of the ruling and hopefully, they will respect the ban. After six months, there will be patrols to check on the smoking ban and the public can call the ministry hotline if they see people breaking the law.”

However, it’s almost impossible to get the 5,000 strong enforcement officers to conduct the inspections at various locations throughout the country. Thus, the Ministry of Health (MoH) is also seeking assistance from members of the public to further increase the effectiveness of the ban. Among the way that they can lend their hands is by making a complaint directly to the MoH via WhatsApp.

Based on the instructions released by MoH, the WhatsApp report must include the name and address of the restaurant as well as the date and time that the offense took place. Additionally, the report must include the picture of the smoker while he or she is smoking within the premise.

Making a report is one part of the process. A user who makes the report wanted to know whether their reports are handled accordingly. On the other hand, MoH also wanted to know how effective is the escalation process from acknowledging to closing the case.

A Malaysian Startup company, FAVORIOT, offers a citizen engagement solution called Favorsense that is easily customizable for MOH or any related scenarios. It comprised of several modules – a mobile app that enables any citizen to make a report (it will include the ability to take photo and auto-geo-tagged the location), administrator system that manages the reports and provide proper escalation to the right parties, a Field Force app that receives jobs assigned to them and a management dashboard to monitor the performance of the process.

Favorsense can be easily customizable for any Government Agencies, Municipals, Campuses, Shopping Malls, Housing Developers, Housing Residence, Condominiums, Facility Management, Occupational Safety and Health and many others.

Any interested parties can contact info@favoriot.com

Check out other Favorsense Articles HERE:

• FAVORSENSE – Crowdsensing Solution from FAVORIOT
• FAVORIOT Brings Citizen Engagement Apps to the Next Level
• BEST Smart Hajj Apps in 2019 – Raqib and Favorsense
• Better, Safer and Smart Community
• How to Solve Issues in University Campuses Effectively

During the last couple of years, we have seen a tremendous interest in the topic Internet of Things (IoT), especially in the Universities, Colleges and Training companies. Many have even offered IoT as their Final Year Projects but there’s one important element missing in their syllabus i.e. IoT Middleware. This piece of technology is one of the most important parts of the IoT value chain. In fact, it’s the one that creates an IoT ecosystem that brings multiple stakeholders together – the chipset, device, connectivity, cloud, big data analytics, applications, etc.

Below are some of the current pain-points faced by the Students, Lecturers, and Universities:

1. An incomplete IoT Lab which only focuses on either standalone Arduino or Raspberry Pi devices without connecting to an IoT platform
2. Students have to do their own research on hundreds of IoT middleware before choosing one for their Final Year projects. Wasting a lot of time and unable to complete the actual hands-on project in due time.
3. Many IoT projects cannot complete on time because students are busy either developing their own “middleware” or server or busy in troubleshooting the connectivity between the sensor device and the server.
4. But there are also many completed projects that are left idle and unable to continue because data and source code are not managed properly. Forever, the IoT projects will never become better because no enhancement can be made to previous projects.
5. Students have to use their own pocket money or use the project fund allocation to subscribe to the IoT platform since the University is not providing any such facility.

How IoT Ecosystem Can Solve the Issues?

1. Proper management of Sensor Data and Project continuity
2. Standardizing tools and platform for students
3. Providing better and complete IoT lab facilities
4. Create better and holistic IoT talents for jobs of the future – 4IR-ready.

Did you know that with LESS THAN RM 9.00 (USD 2/-) per month per student, you can educate and create about 30 IoT Talents from your Universities/Colleges/Schools every year?

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FAVORIOT IoT Middleware offers the following features:

• Device Connectivity – Supports different protocols and data format. Application Programming Interface (API) ensuring accurate data streaming and interaction with all devices
• Device Management – To ensures the connected “things” are working properly. We create the abstraction of the physical devices in IOT realms within the IOT middleware
• Scalable Database – Scalable storage of device data brings the requirements for hybrid cloud-based databases to a new level in terms of data volume, variety, velocity, and veracity
• Business Logic – Brings data to life with rule-based event-action-triggers
• Notification Engine – Combining business logic with notification engine enable execution of “smart” actions based on specific sensor data
• Dashboarding – Enables users to see patterns and observe trends from visualization dashboards where data is vividly portrayed through various type of charts
• Application Programming Interface – APIs that act as interfaces for third-party systems
• Security – All interaction with the IOT Middleware are secured via HTTP/TLS protocol

FAVORIOT IoT Ecosystem offers the following benefits:

• Customizable platform
• Reduces time to prototype/market from months to weeks
• Minimizes the cost and risk of application development
• Can be easily tailored for multiple business applications
• Capable of handling millions of devices and scale elastically
• As the platform evolves, you get new features for free
• Speeds up the rule creation process
• Easily handling data ownership for sharing and monetizing

IoT Ecosystem Builder Package – USD 900 per Year |(RM 3,000 per Year)

Original article can be seen here, thanks to Insights Success Magazine, Dec. 2018.

Thanks to Insights Success, another article regarding FAVORIOT also appeared in The 10 Most Innovative IoT Startups to Watch, 2018