Safeomat – A New Business Opportunity
Safeomat is similar to an automated banking machine in many ways but this facility stores the users’ valuables with the help of shuttle containers which are safely hidden in Safeomat’s tamper-resistant vault.
All the user needs to do is:
- Insert the ID smartcard;
- Provide authentication with the help of a PIN and/or biometric parameters;
- Open the personal container which arrives at the Safeomat gateway;
- Withdraw the contents from or place the contents into the container (alternatively – take the container away and return it later);
- Send the container back.
Safeomat possesses a range of advantages over existing safety box pools and lockers. The major design benefit of Safeomat is that the non-tamper-resistant containers are safely encasedin a tamper-resistant shell. This innovation considerably decreases the production costs as well as ongoing operating and maintenance expenses.
Compared to existing safety box pools models, Safeomathas a larger number of user-friendly features, which include:
- Privacy: no personnel assistance needed;
- Proximity: Safeomatcan be installed in the lobby of any apartment or administrative building;
- Non-stop functioning and accessibility: Safeomat can operate 24/7 (unlike most banks’ safety box pools), and the customers do not need to line up for a bank clerk at their busiest time of the day.
As to security, Safeomat and its users can be protected in the same way the ATM and its users are protected, and even better. Unlike ATM, Safeomat is to be installed in private premises where access is restricted and security monitoring is provided. As an additional means to assure the customers, insurance compensation can be guaranteed if a container should be tampered with, or disappear.
Apart from that, Safeomat can be designed to withstand fire and other disasters. Apartment building dwellers will no longer need to keep their documents in emergencybriefcases to take with them in the case of an emergency.