Temple management and automation


Vadiraja Bhat | Jan. 2, 2024, 8:02 p.m.

 

Introduction

Millions of devotees and small and medium enterprise owners want to assemble and attend numerous religious events. This is a special case of event management with broad implications. Devotees from various sects are our early angel investors.
Small and medium companies in India have developed temple software system for maintaining devotee information, Notification of messages to the devotees about events and festivals in the temples, birth-day events, online seva booking, managing pooja schedule, managing donations, report generations for donation history reports, year-end donation summary reports. 
But there is no major automation of temple management.
Integrated and automated system is to streamline and improve operational efficiency, accuracy, transparency in security, events, food/prasadam preparation and supply, financial reporting, event management and to provide access to critical information to the stakeholders like devotees, temple priests, temple staff, and temple trustees.


What is Automation?

Where Automation is required and how it helps?

Security and Queue Management.


In any temple, visitor safety is the utmost priority and the security measures are mandate by the government law enforcement agencies. The security procedure during peak season time and holidays is a challenging task for the temple management and security personnel.
To keep the temple a safe and family-friendly place, security policies and procedures have to be followed in a temple.
How all the visitors checked for metals, weapons.
When metals, weapons are found what actions to take.
Search vehicles for the weapons, items not allowed inside the temple complex.
How all the vehicles are searched, what action to take for the items found in the vehicle. 
How to ensure that the vehicles are checked.
Information about the items which are not allowed within the temple complex(alcohol, smoking, banned substances)
How to prohibit carrying of banned items inside the temple

Event management.
Create, Modify, Delete events
Notify about events to devotees
Organize events

Accommodation Management
Search for accommodation
Show availability of accommodation
Book for accommodation
Modify booking
Cancel booking
Check in
Check out
Billing
Food (Prasadam) preparation and supply

Automation of Prasadam preparation and distribution with safety and hygienic measurement 

Monitor the day-to-day operations

Cleaning service automation
Track availability of service personnel for planning and scheduling task assignments.
Track the time taken by the service personnel to complete a job.
Schedule and assign right service personnel to the work.
Task notification - Notify service schedule to the service personnel.
Track team in real time, Know service personnel location, status (Idle, travelling, working).
Service personnel completes the service and update the status.
Supervisor gets the message about completion of work.
Supervisor can monitor the assigned work.
Information about pending services, completed services.

Managing donations 
Availability of finance required for sustaining the temple activities.

Seva booking
Find seva information, information about priest performing seva. 
Book seva, 

Do the seva
Notify about booked seva details to devotees, priest, and temple staff

Managing and scheduling Pooja, Religious activities, rituals (Sevas).

Maintaining devotee information

Maintain devotee information such as their date of birth, Sevas booked, offered

Donor information

Message notification 
Notify devotees about events, festivals, pooja.

Reports
 

Report generations for donation history reports, 
Year-end donation summary reports.

Reference

Shree Venkateshvara  Temple, Tghirumala, Thirupathi, Andhra Pradesh

Aksharadham temple in New Delhi

https://akshardham.com/

ISKCON temple in Rajajinagar, Bangalore

ISKCON temple in Rajajinagar,  Bangalore is one of the largest temples in Bangalore

Shree Krishna Matha in Udupi, Karnataka

 

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