The world economy is slowly awakening from the lockdown due to Covid19 pandemic and most countries are gradually reopening their economy by allowing some businesses to operate on-premises. With this in mind, businesses across the globe are rushing to implement new workplace safety measures to keep their employees and customers safe. Safety measures such as social distancing, face masks, sneeze guards and hand sanitizers do not provide management with sufficient assurance since compliance cannot be proactively monitored and contacts tracing is almost impossible.
Therefore businesses are faced with the following challenges:
- How to ensure safe face-to-face meetings with clients and colleagues
- How to avoid crowds at lunch breaks, common areas etc.
- How to trace all workplace contacts with an infected person
To help businesses securely admit their employees back to the workplace, our partner Teltonika, a leading European manufacturer of satellite monitoring equipment, has added “Social Distancing Monitoring” hardware to their product line.
The solution is composed of two parts:
- Teltonika hardware (GH5200)
- Instanta monitoring platform
The social distancing hardware (Teltonika GH5200)
GH5200 is a personal device which can be worn around the neck as a badge that holds an ID card and will vibrate whenever an employee also wearing the device breaches the social distancing rule. GH5200 is an autonomous personal tracker with GNSS, GSM and Bluetooth connectivity.
The social distancing monitoring platform
The hardware described above transmits the collected data to the powerful Instanta telematics software over GPRS network, which then enables management to monitor the employees’ interaction with one another, receive instant notification for breach of social distancing rules and generate reports for contact tracing.
As shown in the image above, the admin user can remotely configure the device and set up basic parameter such as:
- The safe distance length
- The length of time that should elapse before an alert is sent to the server or supervisors (in seconds)
- The alert rule to indicate which supervisors should receive social distance breach notification via email, SMS or push notification
In the event of any social distancing violation, the device alarm system will keep beeping until the employees return to a safe distance from each other. The supervisor will stay in the loop of any dangerous contacts by getting notifications on the web app or mobile app.
The benefits of the social distancing monitoring solution:
- Easily implement social distancing rules: Enables management to easily implement and monitor social distancing in the workplace. Thereby giving employees and customers assurance of the safety of the workplace.
- Effortless workplace contact tracing: In the event of an infection, it will be possible to easily trace all the contacts. Therefore, only colleagues who were in contact with the infected person will go into quarantine, while the others can keep working thereby reducing the potential downtime from infection.
- Regulatory compliance: Management will be able to use data from the application to demonstrate to the relevant authorities that they are complying with social distancing rules and regulations. They will be able to analyze data for contact tracing to see how long each employee spent in proximity to others.
This technology solution is applicable to healthcare visitors, maintenance workers, construction workers, factory workers etc.
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