Aadharshila Mobility Solutions has added a new and exclusive model to its BluPrints range of Bluetooth Mobile Receipt Printers specifically catering to the FIN-Tech Sector. Aadharshila has formalized its tie-up with a major bank for the exclusive supply of MARC Printers, which has complete technical compatibility with the bank’s Award-Winning mobile application – MARC.

The mobile application MARC (which works on Android & Symbian based phones) was developed using which payment receipts can be generated on BluPrint – handheld Bluetooth Printers. The application allows collection executives to view cases allotted to them on their mobile phones. The front end of MARC let’s executive perform a number of operations. They are issued unique login credentials, which are validated by CAPS over GPRS. Once logged in, executives can view financial and demographic details of a customer, update a customer’s contact details, update follow up with customer in the form of trails, update payment details of a customer transaction, generate payment receipts on a paired Bluetooth printer, and even push an SMS and email confirmation about the payment to the customer.
ICICI Bank and its technology partner Nucleus Software introduced MARC, a mobile-based Automation of Receipts on Collection Activities Processing System (CAPS), a solution that allows customers to make payment anytime, anywhere while eliminating the need for hand-written receipts. This mobile-based software has been implemented on Android and Symbian OS. It updates transaction details, generates payment receipts on a paired blue-tooth printer, and pushes SMS and e-mail confirmations of transactions to the customer. The system enables straight-through processing and tracks payment on a real-time basis and has resulted in considerable cost savings by freeing up over 200 bank employees involved in physical receipt issuance and reconciliation and manual updating of receipt details into core systems. It has been implemented at 500 locations with 1500 channel partners. 

Rajasthan DigiFest is a 2-day mega-event organized for startups by the Department of IT&C, Government of Rajasthan, attracting thousands of emerging entrepreneurs, investors, business leaders, and aspiring student entrepreneurs.In addition to high-quality panel discussions, a showcase of curated tech innovations, workshops and mentoring clinics, DigiFest in Udaipur had  major highlights:

• Investor Connect: Showcase of 6 Qrated startups to investor partners of the GoR’s iStart program

The 6 startups that presented were selected from the 1st batch of the Government of Rajasthan’s Qrate program for startups.

Managed by Applyifi, Qrate is a unique program that assists startups to sharpen their business plans and investor pitch decks and then connects them to potential investors and customers. Under the program, startups are first assessed on various parameters of business and provided with the Applyifi scorecard and assessment report on their strengths and weaknesses. Based on the scorecard, startups undergo a comprehensive 1-month skill-building program with customized mentoring and expert advice. Once the startups are ready, they are presented to relevant investors and/or customers.

Participating startups get the iStart and QRate cards, which provide them access to several benefits and offers from the Department of IT&C, Government of Rajasthan and partners. All startups start with the basis iStart card but will move up the ladder – bronze, silver, gold and signature card – as their scores improve. Depending on their QRate score, Startups will be eligible for a tiered structure of online and offline benefits, including via partners.

From over 200 applications received since the recent launch of the Qrate program, startups are being shortlisted for the first batch of the skill building program starting on the 22nd of Dec, 2017. The 6 startups that were invited to pitch to investors at the Rajasthan DigiFest are from those shortlisted for the 1st batch of the Qrate skill-building program.

The presenting startups went through a comprehensive workshop to sharpen their pitch decks and rehearse their presentations to investors.

Investors were genuinely impressed with the startups, and the quality of their presentations. Anil Joshi remarked “I was pleasantly surprised. We typically don’t see such high-quality pitches at startup events.”.

While the presenting startups have yet to go through the skill-building program, 4 out of the 6 startups are now engaged with the investors for further evaluation.

Vasundhara Raje, the Honourable Chief Minister of Rajasthan is an ardent supporter of entrepreneurship and innovation and has made time to attend all the previous editions of the hackathon, DigiFest and other major startup events organized by the Government of Rajasthan. At the Udaipur DigiFest, she gave the first set of Qrate cards to select startups.

Startups that presented to investors during Rajasthan DigiFest – Udaipur 2nd-3rd Dec, 2017

‘BluPrints provides innovative mobility solutions for the governments and businesses.’

Their range of 20 highly software and design-intensive intelligent hardware products currently serve over 400 customers across 7 market verticals including BFSI, retail, logistics, healthcare, and parking.

Unlike off-the-shelf products, Blueprint products are custom-created for Indian conditions and requirements. For example, their e-challan reader for Government traffic departments has the ability to read the driver license, accept payments as well as print challans. And they were able to offer those at 1/3rd the price of competing brands.

BluPrints is led by Kavita Aggarwal, an electronics graduate from Delhi University. She also has an MBA from University of Leeds (UK) and has experienced in core R&D in embedded systems.

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BluPrints (Aadharshila Mobility Solutions Pvt. Ltd.) attended the Tie Global Summit 2018 in association with IStart  Rajasthan, as a Sponsor of the Large Scale Event, held in Mumbai at the JW Mariott (Sahar), on the 21^st and 22^nd of February, 2018.

IStart Rajasthan is a flagship initiative by the Government of Rajasthan that aims to facilitate innovation and help Startups in order to build an ecosystem for easy access to knowledge interchange and funding.

BluPrints was one of the 6 selected startups that got an opportunity to showcase their ideas to the investor partners of the Government of Rajasthan’s iStart programme. Our company was selected from the first batch of GoR’s Qrate programme, managed by Applyifi, and received our Qrate Card from Vasundhara Raje, the Honourable Chief Minister of Rajasthan in December 2017.

Following up on the same initiative, Istart Programme invited BluPrints to attend and present our Pitch Deck to several Potential Investors at the Tie Global Summit in Feb, 2018 in Mumbai.

Our Founder, Kavita Aggarwal attended the event and met not only several potential investors and partners but interacted and presented before several successful entrepreneurs, industry leaders, leading investors (VCs, PE, Angels & Banks), senior corporate professionals and academia.

A highlight of the event was a talk by Bollywood superstar, Salman Khan, who spoke to start-ups and Industry leaders about his company “Being Human” and his entrepreneurship journey; all the way from idea conceptualization, to pilot run, from collaborations, sales, distribution, to the donation of its profits towards charity.

The wave of digitization that started with the launch of Digital India campaign has not just benefited the masses and the government but has also influenced the Indian economy in a positive manner. BluPrints contribution to this digitization drive has been very significant especially in revenue collection, rural healthcare, retail, and even upcoming elections. BluPrints has been a part of a revolution regarding digitization of membership enrollment in political parties for upcoming elections. This membership drive aims to enroll a huge number of new members for the upcoming elections. In this drive, a simple process was devised to renew a membership or to enroll a new member.

The Process

The current trend in elections in India entails political parties running a campaign to enrol more members affiliated to their parties. Such drives include either a membership drive event or door to door promotion & enrollment, or through the parties portal/App. The application is generally developed by a 3rd party software development company engaged by the party. Once the membership form is submitted electronically, the new membership card and the receipt for the card is generated and issued on the spot. BluPrints Bluetooth enabled printer allows immediate wireless printing of receipts for the membership cards, helping in queue management, door to door enrollment no. generation thus creating a flawless enrollment process.It also provides a provision for printing in the local language.

BluPrints Bluetooth enabled Portable Smart Thermal Printer

BluPrints offers a complete range of smart printing solutions for various applications across industries. Its printing range includes Thermal Printer, Barcode Printer, Android Printer, Bluetooth Printer, Bluetooth thermal printer, and many more. BluPrints has the vision of providing innovative as well as customized product solutions for the customers. BluPrints Smart Printer has the following features

⦁ Fast printing speed

⦁ High quality

⦁ Robust and reliable

⦁ Lightweight

⦁ Long battery life

⦁ Multilingual Printing

Some of the advantages of using these printers include its priced as per the Indian market when compared to the other stand-alone scanner and printers. It can be easily customized and is constantly upgraded. The BluPrints Smart Printer has wireless compatibility with standard Laptop or Mobile platforms across various operating systems. It is also used for printing logos, images, QR Codes, barcode, and coupons. BluPrints Smart Printer comes with a complete range of accessories such as safety cases, high-quality paper rolls, docking stations, chargers, and batteries.

BluPrints Smart Printer facilitating Membership Enrollment Drive

BluPrints Smart Printer is an active facilitator of the membership enrollment drive for the upcoming election. BluPrints Smart Printer is highly suitable for on the spot printing of the Membership cards during enrolment drive. As the election is approaching, managing huge amount of member data and printing accurately in a short time is required. Maintaining online data records and on the spot, printing has made the whole process free from errors, time-saving, cost-effective and transparent. Blueprints multilingual printing has made it very popular among political leaders who often try to bridge the communication gap due to language barriers. Removal of language barrier has also helped in increasing the reach of facilities and better implementation of plans.

The BluPrints Smart printer has been a significant contributor towards providing better public services. Blueprints today, is working in association with many government and non-government bodies to make India a fully digital economy. With a motive to reach the remotest and the weakest sections of society, it is working towards complete digital inclusion.

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BluPrints smart thermal printers have facilitated revenue collection for Municipal Departments across India by developing an efficient way of bill collection and thus reducing loss. When a municipal department implements a mobile payment initiative, it not only becomes convenient for the customers to pay utility bills but also allows the department to better address the issues in that locality. Following are the ways in which BluPrints smart thermal printers have proved to be a boon for the municipal departments:

• On the spot billing streamlines real-time billing system – BluPrints mobile POS printer 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. This process has not only financially benefited the utilities to increase their collections but also ensure timely payment, reduced fraudulent procedures, and miscommunication regarding late payments. 

• Reduced losses due to nonpayment of utility bills – The offline billing process has been revamped and made easy and reliable to enable fast transactions and provide adequate protection to customer’s money. 
• Increase in customer base – The cut down in losses has, in turn, encouraged Power Distribution companies to supply to more customers and enhance their reach. 
• Rise in revenue collection – When the paying customer base increases it automatically increases the revenue.
• Reducing billing errors – As the process is completely automatic and computerized it eliminates errors.
• Reducing fraud risks – Risk of fraud is not there as the whole system is automatic eliminating manual billing completely.
• Reducing billing cycle – Spot billing has reduced billing cycle significantly as it saves the time taken between meter reading and bill generation.
• Cost saving in the operation and maintenance of collection centers
• More customer-centric process- As the customer is not required to go anywhere it is more customer centric.
• Transparent- As a result of all the above factors the whole process of bill generation and collection has become a much transparent function.

What is a POS Printer?

Point of Sale hardware includes many types of receipt printers. These are portable printers mostly used in retail for printing customer receipts. A thermal printer is the most basic type of POS printer. It is a very high speed printer most suitable for large volume receipt printing and does not require any additional media for printing.

Technology and Advancement

Thermal printing is a digital printing process where a printed image is produced by selective heating of coated thermochromic paper, or thermal paper when the paper passes over the thermal print head. A thermal paper roll is placed in a container provided in the machine, with the end of the roll fed into a slot. As the sheet reacts to the heat of the printer head, the pigments on the heat-sensitive paper form the letters and images as transmitted through the thermal printer. Thermal printers don’t use ink cartridges and so they are economical and low maintenance.  

Need for a Thermal Printer

Thermal printers ensure an efficient point of sale experience not just for customers but also for the service providers. They are a cost effective and convenient choice for a POS transaction and other functions like printing receipts, ID badges, shipping labels, price tags etc. They are useful for businesses because of their increased printing speed, low cost, easy maintenance, better print quality, and improved functionality.

BluPrints: No 1 Manufacturers of POS Thermal Mobile Printers in India

BluPrints is creating world class electronic products keeping in mind innovations at the grass root level. Our vision is to empower Indian society with world class technology. Our hardware platforms are customized for Indian markets developing products most suited to the market requirements. BluPrints boasts of 400 customers across 10 plus industries. We have been successfully providing solutions for e-governance projects such as e challan, electricity/water/municipal bills, Financial Inclusion, smart parking, health care centers/camps, Field Sales Automation, Banks/NBFC for collection processes, queue management, token generation to name a few. We are a fast growing technology firm in the designing & manufacturing of thermal printers in India.

Why BluPrints Smart Thermal Printers?

• Solid, Robust and Dust Resistant-BluPrints smart thermal printers can sustain a drop from a height of 1 meter.
• Plug N Play – These printers suit various markets and budgets.
• Universally Operable – They are compatible with all leading operating systems like Linux, Windows, iOS, Android, Standard ESC-POS compliance.
• Cost Effective – Immune to USD fluctuations, Global quality product at India Prices.
• Ever-Evolving – Bluprints has an ongoing R&D which focuses on Obsolescence management.
• Field Ready – BluPrints smart thermal printers are robust and suitable for outdoor usage.
• Best in Class and Affordable – BIS certified, ISO certified, Made in India.
• Customized Solutions – Customized as per Indian requirements. It has features like RFID, Magnetic Swipe Card Reader, and Multilingual.
• High Speed, Quick Setup and Highly Compatible – Easy to port in with existing Application.
• Customized support to the customer as per their application.

BluPrints deals with wireless hand-held billing solutions. Its main objective is to improve the speed, reliability, and accountability of Mobile point of sale, and billing/receipt generation transactions. BluPrints has been successful in providing an alternative to massive hand-held receipt terminals, which can be used on smartphones. Its printing range can be used in any industry that requires bill generation like electricity, water, cable TV bill payments; and home-delivery businesses like groceries, food, laundry services, online shopping portals, paid parking lots, post-paid mobile billing, and toll-tax, among others.

With massive emphasis by the Government of India towards digitalization and the changing customer behavior towards acceptance and shift towards a digital economy, BluPrints thermal printers provide a customized solution to the complete process. As we are a Make in India company and it is our own IP it helps us provide our customer with world-class, reliable, and upgraded product to enhance their solution. More and more businesses are turning to the BluPrints Smart Thermal Printers to bring a better experience and last mile connectivity to the customers.

Why BluPrints thermal printers?

The specialized feature of these printers is that they are not only efficient but also reliable and affordable for your on spot receipt generation process which makes it ideal for various sectors that want to print bills quickly. The most useful printer features are simple configuration, quick print speed, better compatibility, durable battery, lightweight and ultra-compactness. We provide our customer support right from the initial stage – from the application development, SDK integration, pilot field testing, to deployment for a solution.

• The BluPrints range of POS printers is completely compliant with ESC/POS command set – a world standard of Portable POS Printing Commands. This feature makes it directly compatible with all standard POS Applications and offers flexibility for easy future upgrades. 
• These printers are designed to reduce the processing load on the host computer / mobile device in POS environments making the whole process fast and efficient.
• These printers are cost-effective as they can print up to 48 Characters per line on a 2 inch wide paper. They also provide value for space, by printing in a smaller font. 
• These printers are compatible with various devices such as smartphones, laptops, tablet, and even desktops with all operating systems Linux, Android, Window, iOS.
• These printers have a sturdy design, suitable for use in open and dusty conditions, and are able to withstand rough handling.

Uses of BluPrints Printers across Sectors

BluPrints Smart Thermal Printers provides customized solutions for on-spot billing across various sectors.

• Retail Industry: It has been the biggest consumer of these printers. Restaurants, retail outlets, supermarkets, departmental stores, retail POS Apps  are all using these printers to reduce operating costs and time for receipt generation.
• Utility Billing: These printers can be used in generating utility bills like electricity, water, municipal taxes, cable TV bill, newspaper bills; and home-delivery businesses like groceries, food, laundry services, online shopping portals. It is essential for door-to door collection and support real time bill generation
• E-challans: Traffic police record traffic offenses on the spot. Bluetooth enabled wireless Portable Thermal Printer provides the facility to read Smart Card based driving licenses and Vehicle Registration Certificates (RC) and transmit this information to traffic policeman’s mobile phone. This helps them in fetching accurate information regarding the offender and the vehicle, in addition to printing of e-challans.
• Healthcare: These printers enable on the spot printing of prescriptions and medical reports. Helpful in rural healthcare camps.
• Parking Management: Parking slips are generated using mobile apps and are printed on the spot with these printers which make it really easy and fast to manage huge parking spaces.
• Field Sales Management: Large FMGC companies are moving from the manual process to manage distributor-retailer order placement & fulfillment of order to a real-time ordering & fulfilment mechanism. This enables the companies for improved and efficient inventory planning, sales projection, enhance  sales and ease of doing business

These are just a few of the sectors using these BluPrints Smart Thermal Printers. This list of sectors and uses is increasing fast.

In this era of technology, current news is available anywhere anytime, but the traditional newspaper is still the most preferred mode of news. In most Indian households, even today, a typical day starts with a cup of tea with newspaper. There are a whole process and system that works to ensure that you get your newspaper every morning with your morning tea. However, running this process smoothly is quite a challenge for newspaper distributors. 

The whole process includes delivery and bill collection which are done manually and requires a lot of time and sufficient manpower. Though delivery cannot be automated, bill collection can be automated to reduce time, effort, manual errors and to improve collection. BluPrints Smart Thermal Printers provide the best solution for automating the bill collection process, making the process simple and quick.

BluPrints Smart Thermal Printers for Newspaper Distributors in Bill Collection – How it works

Newspaper distributors add all customers’ details in the Android-based apps and the app generates a monthly bill as per customer’s subscription and usage. This feature eliminates manual calculation of bills and rules out any manual errors. These apps help the vendor in managing all their customer accounts from their mobile phones and generate bills at the end of every month. These bills are printed on the spot using BluPrints smart thermal printers which are able to fetch bill wirelessly from the mobile phones. The customer account is immediately updated, by the vendor, when the bill is generated and paid, thus reducing a lot of time as well as errors.

Some of the requirements for this automation are an internet-enabled mobile phone and BluPrints Bluetooth enabled thermal printer. The billing person carries an internet-enabled mobile phone instead of a calculator and this mobile phone is able to connect with a thermal printer through a Bluetooth interface.  One more feature of this app and thermal printer based billing system is that when the bill is generated, the customers receive an SMS with a link for online payment. Thus enabling customers to make payments through online modes leading to further digitization of the process.

Benefits of using BluPrints Smart Thermal Printers for Automation of Bill Collection

• These printers do not require any additional accessory and are compact and lightweight, so easy to carry around.
• BluPrints Printers have compatibility with various devices (Android, iOS, Windows, Linux) including, Desktop, Tablets, Laptops etc.
• Their low maintenance costs
• Long battery life

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The government initiative of Digital India aims to develop a smart healthcare system for the benefit of the rural Indian population. The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare is taking a number of e-governance initiatives for the digitization of the healthcare sector in India, and has thus started a division called e-Health India.

e-Health India includes initiatives like Mobile Health or m-health which uses mobile apps to educate people about preventive healthcare measures, disease management, disease surveillance and treatment support. Remote monitoring is another initiative which allows health service providers to monitor patient’s health outside health care center through telemonitoring, wearable biosensors  which track changes in a patient’s health, record data to his health records and print on spot prescriptions through BluPrints thermal printers.

Benefits of Digitization in Rural Healthcare

The new digital technologies are able to share many of the responsibilities performed by doctors. Biosensors and mobile apps help patients to get regular updates about their health. These devices increase the rural population’s access to healthcare services through point-of-care diagnostics, teleconsultation and e-prescription facilities, thus benefiting the rural healthcare in many ways:

• Saves time and help doctors to attend to more patients.
• Regular monitoring can help in early diagnosis of serious conditions and thus timely treatment can be provided.
• Provide real-time patient information and support symptom-based diagnosis 
• Reduces the cost for both healthcare service providers and patients.
• Sharing of patient records and medical history becomes simple thus making it easier and faster for doctors and insurance providers to understand medical history. 
• Medical consultations provided remotely brings healthcare to remote areas with no basic healthcare facilities.
• Help healthcare providers to take timely measures based on an analysis of vitals recorded remotely using wearable biosensors.

BluPrints thermal printers supporting rural healthcare digitization through on spot prescriptions and medical reports 

Mobile technology is helping to change the delivery of healthcare services in India because it is a powerful information transmission tool which connects the rural patients with healthcare provider. 

The healthcare delivery model consists of a phone/tablet/desktop,diagnostic devices and BluPrints smart thermal printers for printing on spot prescriptions, collection receipts, referral notes and medical reports that can be printed in local languages. 

These devices along with the healthcare app assist local healthcare representatives in collecting medical information, providing medical support and updating this information on a web based system which can be remotely accessed by the doctors to provide diagnosis and treatment. This model is also linked with financial services which provide micro insurance. 

This system resolves many issues like access, affordability and quality of healthcare. BluPrints has been an active participant of this healthcare delivery system with features like multilingual printing, customizable design, long battery life, low maintenance and high print quality. 

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Ms Kavita Aggarwal, CEO & Founder of BluPrints has bee invited to speak at t the 4th Edition of empoWer. empoWer is India’s First Tech Accelerator for Women Entrepreneurs

empoWer 2019 will be supporting 15 women entrepreneurs in the technology space through a 3-day Bootcamp, out of which 10 selected startups will go on to be a part of the 4-week accelerator program. Indian Clearing Corporation Limited (ICCL), a wholly owned subsidiary of BSE Ltd. (BSE), is the industry sponsor for the program.

Speaking at the 4th Edition Delhi Launch on the Topic – The technological curve: how its impacting the startup ecosystem in this age she will be joined by feloow industry leaders

• ​Joy Devgourev Sharma, Head Investment, GoMassive
• Prajakt Raut, Founder of Applyifi & The Growth Labs

About empoWer –

Established in 2016, empoWer is India’s 1st tech accelerator for women entrepreneurs. We started with a hypothesis, in 2016, that it is a program/ecosystem much needed for women entrepreneurs; and the response received in the form of applications from across India, and repeated feedback from many quarters to expand the cohort size, or hosting multiple cohorts in the year is a major validation for us.

Over the past 3 years, 65 women entrepreneurs have been a part of 4 cohorts, and 1 bootcamp. Each cohort is a 6-week accelerator program comprising 15 women entrepreneurs selected from a PAN-India application pool. We have disbursed INR 2.1 Cr in grants, and post-program, a large majority of startups have raised further funding amounting a cumulative of ~ INR 32 Crores. We help startups scale by providing mentorship, industry connects, peer network, investor meets through a  2 months accelerator program, followed by a 1-year support program.

Kavita Aggarwal Singh, CEO & Founder BluPrints was presented with the prestigious HCFI Shashi Bala Excellence Award on 20th October 2019 for her contribution as leading women entrepreneur of a proud Make in India company an innovative mobility solution. 

The award was presented to her by Union Secretary of Youth Affairs and Sports Shri Radheyshyam Julaniya (IAS) & Dr K K Aggarwal, Padma Shri Awardee & President of HCFI- Heart Care Foundation of India at Perfect Health Mela (18-20 Oct 2019) a one-of-its-kind event organized by the Heart Care Foundation of India (HCFI) held every year with a mission to generate all- round awareness on health.

BluPrints Smart Thermal Printer range is widely used in health tech sector to support health camps, instant prescriptions & report generation to name a few.