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Our CEO Ms. Kavita Aggarwal was invited to the esteemed panel of top CEOs of the country on NewsX to discuss on “How To Get Business & Economy Back”.

Owing to full compliance with world standard printing protocols and High -speed Barcode, QR Code and Raster Image Printing capabilities, the BluPrints range of Bluetooth and WIFI Portable Thermal Receipt Printers are finding large-scale acceptance with India’s Leading Banks such as State Bank of India (SBI), Bank of India (BOI), ICICI Bank, Axis Bank and HDFC Bank. A feather in Aadharshila’s cap, this endorsement has led to Micro ATM Applications such as Novopay standardize their application around AEM Printers, leading to large-scale country-wide deployments across retailers. Aadharshila Printers are being deployed at 3 levels amongst Banks: 1. Customer Service Point KIOSKS (CSP) – A mandatory requirement in the premises of Banking Kiosks under financial inclusion measures taken by Large Banks. Predominantly, AEM’s WIFI And Bluetooth enabled network printers are used to print banking receipts directly via Windows Laptops and Desktops, from web-based KOISK Applications. 2. Collection Agents of Banks – The Collection Departments of Banks and Authorized Collection Agencies to which Banks outsource their collection work. The Banks such as ICICI and Kotak Mahindra have their own Android Based Application for fetching customer details, entering the amount collected and generating receipts on the spot. Each transaction updates the Bank Servers in real-time and the customer is provided an instantaneous receipt through BluPrints Portable Bluetooth Thermal Printer, that is fully compatible with these Android Based Collection Applications. 3. Retailers Functioning as Micro-ATMs for Banks – Retailer Applications such as NOVOPAY that function as Micro-ATM App for AXIS and HDFC Banks. Applications such as NOVOPAY offer Android Apps for electronic transactions at Retailer Level – empowering businesses, merchants, and consumers with technology forward solutions. They make banking and payments convenient and offer banking services from Partner Banks such as SBI, AXIS, and HDFC through Retailers. AEM Printers are empaneled with the NOVOPAY, making it essential for every retailer who is a NOVOPAY Agent to use Aadharshila BluPrints Bluetooth Printers for receipt generation.

BluPrints under the leadership of Ms Kavita Aggarwal was recently selected to be a part of POWERED Accelerator – a first of its kind women entrepreneurship programme focused on twin Sustainable Development Goals of Energy and Diversity.

POWERED Accelerator was launched in April this year by DFID India, Shell Foundation, Department of Science and Technology, Government of India, and Zone Startups India with the objective to support female-led ventures, the goal being to empower women-owned and managed businesses in the energy space. Powered Accelerator will work towards strengthening the ecosystem for more women-owned and managed businesses across the energy value chain.

BluPrints Contribution to support the energy value chain by providing the last mile connect for electricity billing:

India’s vision to achieve ‘24×7 Power for All’ by the year 2022 and push on digitalization has driven the ecosystem towards a massive change and growth. The core of the vision is to provide access to energy across the country, there are various factors & changes that are enabling this vision.

One of the major factors that have encouraged the DISCOMS to deepen as well as improve their supply is owing to digitalization of billing process which has triggered a cut down in their financial losses (non-technical losses).

In a market like India where regulations are still evolving, the urban segment is already moving to digital payments but the rural segment comprising 66.5% of country’s total population is still in transition. Majority of the nation is still relying on offline utility bill payments modes. The offline electricity billing has been revamped and build solutions to make the process easy and reliable thus enabling fast transactions and provide adequate protection to customer’s money.

Keeping the market need for automation of offline bill collection process in mind BluPrints easy to use mobile printers was designed with the feature set specifically for use by DISCOMs to support “on the spot” receipt generation solution – a quick, hassle-free proof of payment. BluPrints Handheld Receipt printers compatible with any device: be it any kind of phone or tab, makes it easy & convenient for the door to door bill collection by providing an essential link to facility the proof of receipt in Tier II/ III and rural areas once linked to the DISCOMS billing application.

The use of our devices in this process has not only financially benefited the utilities to increase their collections but also ensure timely payments & reduced miscommunication regarding late payments. The cut down in losses has, in turn, encouraged Power Distribution companies to supply to more customers – increase their reach.

These universal devices, in fact, support all kinds of billing applications being used in India for recording the data, generating the bill and enabling instant update of company’s record by the application. 

BluPrints, a part of Make in India initiative is committed to providing global quality-made in India product range designed as per changing market needs. Our thermal printers are being used in various e-governance projects such as e challan, water/municipal bills, Financial Inclusion, smart parking, health care centres/camps. We are very proud to be an active enabler and participant in the current movement towards “Better India”

BluPrints is thankful to DFID India, Shell Foundation, Department of Science and Technology, Government of India, and Zone Startups India for selecting us from amongst more than 130 women entrepreneurs who are doing phenomenal work in their field of work. BluPrints appreciates this opportunity & support.

BluPrints RF – A new add-on to the existing Bluetooth Thermal Receipt Printer range; This new smart chip can read contactless Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags and send the tag information wirelessly over Bluetooth to a nearby Android Device.  Ideally suited to applications such as Parking on Metro Stations, BluPrints RF acts as a multi-purpose device to enable cashless transactions using the Metro Rail Card to debit the parking fee each time a commuter parks his/her vehicle at the Metro Station Parking to board a Metro Rail. In addition to reading the tag, the printer prints the parking slip wirelessly via Bluetooth through a smart Android Based Application from the mobile phone of the Metro Parking Attendant.

The much-awaited PC wireless printer range was launched by Aadharshila Mobility Solutions recently. Using Windows Drivers, the Aadharshila BluPrints range can now be installed as standard USB, Bluetooth,  WIFI or Serial (COM) Port Printers in standard Windows Desktops and Laptops. This offers the following features: 1. Capability to Print directly via MS Word, Power Point or any web-based apps that offer a printing capability by looking for Printers installed on the system. 2. Capability to wirelessly share a printer across a Local Area / WIFI Network. 3. Capability to select Paper Size (2″ or 3″) and set the margins to print the document just like usual desktop printers. 4. Complete High-speed Raster Image Printing via standard ESC/POS commands implemented in the driver files. This feature enables superb quality multi-lingual printing (in the form of raster images), QR Code Printing, and printing of any document as exact replica in a receipt size. 5. Capability to print via any IOS/Web based application directly using universal document printing applications such as Printer-Share and Google CloudPrint.

One of the biggest challenges faced by rural healthcare is the lack of healthcare infrastructure and technology in remote villages. Lack of 24 hour power supply and no proper means of transportation have kept the rural population deprived of basic medical services for long.

To deal with these challenges healthcare providers and doctors are adopting a new smart printing technology for health check-ups in remote areas. This new technology is a powerful way to not only log prescriptions but also, print those using mobile portable printers.

BluPrints Smart Thermal Printers for Instant Prescriptions and Medical Test Reports

Doctors are using BluPrint’s Bluetooth Enabled BluPrints Smart Thermal Printer to print Instant Prescriptions for patients. For this purpose, doctors are equipped with Android based Tablets, with specific Prescription App, through which, they are able to diagnose diseases in patients and provide prescriptions. These prescriptions are printed via Bluetooth Technology wirelessly.

BluPrints smart printing solutions have very effectively replaced costly and huge equipment. These battery enabled, mobile handheld, BluPrints Smart Thermal Printers are particularly being used in health check-up camps in remote areas, and are therefore very helpful in increasing the reach of healthcare to rural areas. The latest printers have been upgraded to support multilingual printing which enables prescriptions to be printed in regional languages, which has become its biggest advantage in breaking the communication barrier.

Doctors record the prescriptions, diagnostic reports and other directions directly on their Tablets. Doctors use other information from related websites, diagrams and disease references available online, to prepare reading material for future reference. This reference material is prepared immediately during the examination itself and thereafter, uploaded on to the cloud where doctors are maintaining the patient databases. Thus, medical records can be accessed and printed directly from smartphones through the thermal printers, in real-time, and provided to patients.

These printers are also suitable for printing medical test reports, which otherwise is a cumbersome process in remote areas. BluPrints smart thermal printers have upgraded rural healthcare in many ways as it is not just beneficial for the rural population but also convenient for the medical service providers, whose participation in rural healthcare programs have improved significantly.

Features of BluPrints Bluetooth Thermal Printer

Bluetooth Thermal printers are

• Ultra Compact and Lightweight

• Easy configuration

• Fast printing speeds

• High quality and superior reliability

• Wireless compatibility with Android Mobile/Tab/Laptop platforms across all operating systems

• Longer Battery life

• Multilingual and Image printing

With these features, the Bluetooth enabled BluPrints Smart Thermal Printers are ideal not just for health care but for many other applications such as Utility Billing, Banks, Smart Parking, Sales & Distribution, Mobile Banking, Traffic E-Challan, Field Sales Automation, Micro Finance, Logistics, Billing, Ticketing, Parking Management, Queue Management in General Retail, Payment/Debt Collection, Visitor Management, Customer Service Point (CSP), etc. Get in touch with Bluprints for more information.

BluPrints Aadharshila’s Three Inch Thermal Receipt Printer Range Gets RF-enabled owing to the new RFID Card Reader Module released by its Engineering department in January 2016. The Two additional variants of BluPrints AEM3BT range include 1. POS DESKTOP RF 3”: A USB Enabled Desktop Thermal Printer of Three Inches Width (87 mm Printer) capable of Contactless Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) card reading. 2. POS PORTABLE RF 3”: A USB and Bluetooth Enabled Wireless Portable Handheld Thermal Printer of Three Inches Width (87mm Printer) capable of Contactless Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) card reading.

BluPrints launched its latest model in its series of Mini Portable Printers – AEM2USB.
In-Built Libraries of USB Printer-Class render this mini printer a class amongst amonst other handheld print devices. The unique feature in this product is that not only can it directly print via the USB Port of any mobile phone, tab, desktop or laptop, but also, can be rendered competely wireless by an adding a standard Bluetooth/Wi-Fi Dongle, and yest show the same printing capability. Bluprint’s technical team have also developed Windows and Android Drivers and SDKs for the direct printing of Standard documents via a PC to this miniature USB Printer. Since most of the implementation of USB Printer-Class is via Intensive Software Source Code burned into the Device as Firmware, the product’s price has purposely not been loaded. Thus the team has finally released a truly indigenous USB Printer that is priced aggressively to take Chinese Competition head-on.

Customer Service Points or Grahak Seva Kendras (GSK) are a strategic initiative of the Digital India program encompassing Financial Inclusion. They are the common points for delivery of various E-governance services to villages in India, thereby contributing to a digitally and financially inclusive society. These Grahak Seva Kendras are more than service delivery points in rural India. They are working as change agents, building rural capacities and livelihoods. They are promoting community participation and collective action for bringing social change at a grass root level with the key focus on the rural citizen.

BluPrints Smart Thermal Printers empowering Grahak Seva Kendra in Rural India

BluPrints portable thermal printers are being extensively used in Grahak Seva Kendra (GSK) all across India. These Bluetooth enabled thermal printers are mostly used along with Laptops, Desktops, Tablets, biometric scanners to carry out all types of online activities on the field. For example:

• Instant Proof/acknowledgement of transaction at the CSP is issued to the customer 
• Support Banking Facilities- end-to-end process of account opening & online transactions
• Utility bill payments- electricity, water, phone bills etc made easy at these CSP where the customer gets an on the spot receipt for the bill payment

These are just a few applications, BluPrints thermal printers are used in various other fields such as logistics, Point of Sale applications, payment collection, ticketing, Aadhaar and PAN registrations, Voter id registration, electronic metering system etc. BluPrints thermal printers are an active participant in Government initiative towards digital and financial inclusion of rural population. 

The portable and low maintenance feature of BluPrints thermal printers makes them an ideal partner for e-governance services. Its universal compatibility makes it free from technical restrictions and easy to use with all kinds of platforms. 

Services offered by Seva Kendra in Rural India

Seva Kendras offer a variety of services on a single platform to benefit the rural population with the latest schemes, policies, and government initiatives. The following types of services are provided:

1. Agriculture Services (eKrishi, soil health card, Crop Insurance, Agri Market etc)
2. Education & Training Services (Vocational Education, Employment, etc.)
3. Health Services (Telemedicine, Health Check-ups, etc.)
4. Banking & Insurance Services (Micro-credit, Loans, Insurance)
5. Entertainment Services (Movies, Television)
6. Utility Services (Bill Payments, Online bookings)
7. Commercial Services (Internet Browsing, Village level BPO).
8. Passport application, railway tickets, Ayushman Bharat, FSSAI registration, Land records, ePolice etc. 
9. E-District services such as issuance of certificates and licenses, ration cards, payment of various social welfare pensions, online filing of RTI, lodging complaints etc.
10. C2G Kiosk – Requests and suggestions, grievances, complaints.

To be able to support the various services offered by Seva Kendra, BluPrints have customized their product range to suit Indian requirements with features such as rugged body, long battery life, multilingual printing, easy to carry, quick charging etc. BluPrints have a wide range of thermal printing products as per industry specifications.

A confluence of divine and digital at the Kumbh from smart parking to virtual darshan, fair becomes a platform for start-ups to showcase their technologies. A parking solution is provided by one-year-old Delhi-based start-up getmyparking.com along with Aadharshila Mobility Solution’s Handheld Bluetooth enabled Receipt Printers. Using this, Parking Slips can be generated using Android Based Mobile Application provided to the Parking Attendants at the Kumbh parking areas. Pilgrims can choose their spots from 11 parking lots through a mobile app or by visiting getmyparking.com. The company provides parking details for scooters, car, buses and tractors.