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cStar
Technologies Inc. Expanding Hospitality Genie™ Suite
of Products
to
High Revenue Generating Hotel Parking
Toronto,
ON – April 16, 2009
– Building on the success of Hospitality Genie™,
cStar’s award winning suite of hotel guest room key
card/RFID wristband cashless solutions for the
Hospitality industry, and commemorating the first
successful full year of hotel guest room key paid
parking at one of Starwood’s premier hotels, cStar
Technologies Inc. announces the addition of SkyGate Parking™
Management Modules for guest room key card/RFID
wristband paid parking solution for hotel guests,
visitors and staff.
This innovative cashless parking payment solution provides hotel
properties the convenience of allowing their guests to
use their guest room key cards/RFID wristbands or
non-hotel guests to use prepaid cards/RFID wristbands to
access parking facilities, eliminating the need for a
separate parking access card and expensive payment
kiosks. A
simple step at front desk check‑in through the
Property Management System (PMS) adds parking charges to
guests’ room bills and grants parking access through
guest room key cards/RFID wristbands via cStar’s SkyGate® MVS-Series
reader/wireless communications devices located at the
parking entrances and exits.
Similarly, prepaid parking access cards/RFID
wristbands are also created at the front desk for
visitors and staff.
Prepaid cards/RFID wristbands use the same
hotel-branded media (cards/RFID wristbands), providing
for continuous brand awareness. Credit
card payment acceptance is also available.
SkyGate Parking™
Management Module, running on cStar’s SkyGate® Server ‑ Hospitality,
provides cashless, real-time, on-line parking
management through cStar’s robust wireless Local Area
Network (wLAN). With
guest room key card/RFID wristband parking access and
credit card payment acceptance, hotels enjoy the
benefits of dynamic, real-time, on-line parking
management; use of the same guest room key card/RFID
wristband for guest room and parking access; recovery of
revenues, with the anti-pass back feature of the system,
previously lost to parking access card sharing abuse;
decreased hotel parking management costs; cost savings
from not requiring a separate parking attendant; and no
wireless communication charges.
In addition, hotels do not need to invest in
expensive payment kiosks and ticket dispensing machines,
or expensive cabling/wiring between the parking gates
and the payment processing server.
President and CEO of cStar Technologies, Stella Yoon said, “We are
continuously looking at ways to expand our Hospitality Genie™
suite of products to enable hoteliers to enjoy added and
increased sources of revenue, and at the same time
benefit from increased efficiencies and reduced costs.
The addition of SkyGate Parking™
Management gives hoteliers added lucrative parking
revenues and makes parking management more efficient and
cost-effective.
With a hotel room key not only can guests enter their rooms; buy drinks,
snacks, ice cream, and convenience items from vending
machines; pay for games and tokens in the arcade; but
now guests can also enter and exit parking, all without
guests worrying about having enough cash or correct
change, and with the hotel not having to worry about
cash-related vandalism and cash handling headaches.
Truly, hotel keys become an e-wallet delivering
guest-centric service to hotel guests and at the same
time enhance hotel brand image and revenues.”
About
Hospitality Genie™
cStar’s Hospitality Genie™ seamlessly interfaces with the
hotels’ PMS to deliver this innovative wireless
cashless payment technology for vending, arcades,
parking, lockers, laundry facilities, etc. for the
hospitality industry. Activated by the guest room key
card/RFID wristband, this is the only cashless vending
solution that eliminates cash in the vending machines,
arcade games, token dispensers, etc. by wirelessly
approving and posting transactions to the guest folio in
real-time. With its robust wireless network
communication that can reach from the basement to 40+
floors of concrete buildings, cStar’s SkyGate®
cashless payment readers can be readily deployed
anywhere on the property without any wiring.
cStar’s wireless connectivity is based on an
easily deployable dedicated wireless LAN that allows
single day deployment of the solution with minimal
interruption to hotel operations – downtime at the
front desk is counted in minutes.
About
cStar Technologies Inc.
cStar
Technologies Inc. is a global provider of wireless
(LAN/WAN) data communication solutions for M2M
(Machine-to-Machine/huMan) and mobile commerce
applications. Protected by multiple patents, its core
solutions include wireless, cashless, and remote
monitoring and tracking systems for the hospitality,
vending, life sciences, and security/defence
industries.
www.cstartech.com
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