touch card for lifts? what u say...?

received an email from resident, he got some suggestion which we also heard from others as well, so like to share here & find out from our residents are they agreeable to this suggestion or not?

is concerning the touch card for using lifts.

(at the moment the parts for blk K lift upgrading still in kastam, our lift vendor's agent is doing the clearance, hope it won't take long)

few benefits we can get from installing the touch card system in the lifts, the most important one is for security, for which only our own residents can access to their floor by touching the scanner in the lift with their card, so other peoples (especially outsiders or visitors) must accompanied by own residents or else they will need to use staircase, through this the security will be greatly tightened.

another benefit is it's good for collecting the service charge, for some other apartments in Penang have already implemented it, the feedback so far are mixed one, no doubt it can increase the collection rate, but at the same time cause inconvenience like card malfunction, forget to bring the card, emergency situation, etc.....

earlier on we dare not to consider to install the touch card system due the lifts in blk K are in the real bad shape & blk J lifts are just in acceptable condition (can't say very good), we worried that after install the system, more problems will be caused to blk k residents, so those days we were thinking if blk K lifts can be in more stable condition then we should consider to install the system....

so now as we will upgrade the blk K lifts soon, and perhaps the blk J lifts will get improved as well because we can use some of existing parts from blk K lifts to replace the faulty parts of blk J lifts, by this all the blk J & K lifts will be fit enough for the touch card system, and, now is the better time to consider this question, should we install the lifts touch card system in Vista Condo?

so our beloved Vista Condo residents, can you give your opinion on this, thanks.

general updates on 22/6/13

few things to brief our beloved Vista residents,

1) we have been informed by lift vendor that the parts for the blk k lift upgrade can arrive this weekend in Penang, after that they will do some inspection to make sure good condition & right parts, then shall waste no time & start the upgrading process. vendor promise to do it round the clock, so we expect they will have ppl in Vista Condo most of the time during the upgrading, how long will it take...? abt 4 to 6 weeks.

2) wifi @ foyer, has anyone among our residents tested it? pls feedback to us the quality so if any modification needed, we can get the vendor to do. As the return to the timedotcom's kindness, we will let them to have road show in our place, hope they will give good offer for those who will sign up during their promotion.

3) sink hole at entrance, the job has completed 2 weeks ago, the vendor also have cleared all the IWK manholes in Vista Condo, but our main concern is the main entrance sinkhole, vendor should have pasted all the leak, for that the supposedly result is that area should NOT sink anymore, so we like our residents to help us to monitor that floor level is not lowered even 1 inch.

4) staff movement, we have a new supervisor now, Mr James, who started work 2 weeks ago, the previous person Mr Rashidi is actually quite a good supervisor, but too bad due to his health condition (diabetic), he needs to go gor check up every now & then, this made his attendance record not too presentable, so now we wish him all the best & may he get the better job to suit for his condition, as for new supervisor Mr James, so far our comments are OK, hope that he can stay on.

5) someone mentioned abt durian party in the comments of last article, well, we will like to have one, but got to wait for the price to drop, let's wait for another week & see :)

thanks.

so the answer is..........

YES........!!!! now the foyer area is wifi equipped, also motor parking area of blk j & K which facing the foyer area.

we have tested for few days already, signal is strongest at the round table area at the foyer, blk j parking area (facing foyer) also quite ok because the transmitter is placed somewhere there as power point has been fixed there 2 years ago, blk k bike parking area also reasonably good especially near to the swimming fencing, but too bad the signal can't both lift lobby of J & K.

special thanks to TimeDotCom for their kindness to set up this facilities, we are now also thinking how to get more area to covered...hopefully other company will be kind enough to do for us too.

oh ya, login name & password,

login : vista wifi

password : vistacondo1234

we will put up the notice soon to inform all our beloved residents.

thanks.

free wifi for vista residents, is it possible?

at the moment we are discussing with one of the internet service provider for making some of the ground floor common area to be wifi ready, the chance to get it done is actually quite bright :)

(maybe some residents still don't know that Penangfon do provide us a free internet connection at the management office since 2 years ago, this has enable the staff to send us daily update on the fee collection, bank in amount & other thing, for this it has saved our management fund abt RM100 per month)

the company we are negotiating now is a different company, we hope they can provide wifi coverage for blk j ground floor, blk k ground flr, and foyer, in fact today they did come & tested few location, seems need to overcome few technical issue, but not major one, we hope if they can't cover these 3 areas as mentioned, at least they will do for foyer area, and once it's done then our residents can enjoy free wifi connection, especially those who doesn't have one in their house.

not sure this free wifi facilities has been made available for other apartment, of course penang free wifi can be found in some shopping center, coffee shop & other public places, but not apartment yet (this company is not related to penang free wifi), we do come across one condo project in Tg Bungah area do invest in some modems & routers, subscribed a internet service to make some common area wifi ready, but then they need to spend over hundred ringgit per month for the line, and also to maintain the equipment, not sure are they still doing so as last time we heard abt this was abt 3 years ago.

we are at the moment following up with the company for vista free wifi, once all settled then will announce it to our residents, when....? hopefully in the month of July.

thanks.