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From zero-code to contact-tracing in under a week
From zero-code to contact-tracing in under a week

From zero-code to contact-tracing in under a week

Steven Manifold2020-06-02T10:22:08+01:00May 29th, 2020|Blogs, Contact-tracing, Industry Trends, Technology Trends, Thought Leadership|

Have you ever wondered where all these contact-tracing and social-distancing solutions came from? It’s not like they were developed and ready to roll out – the use of technology to support back-to-work strategies is unprecedented in history. Unprecedented and unpredicted: up until March we’d barely thought about shutting down; up until April we’d never considered what it would mean to open back up, and here we are in May with a veritable smorgasbord of

Two meters, or not two meters: that is the question

Stefania Borchia2020-06-01T12:09:21+01:00April 28th, 2020|Blogs, Contact-tracing, Industry Trends, Technology Trends|

I wonder if you’ve thought about why we are being advised to stay two meters (or six feet) away from other people to avoid Coronavirus transmission? That number used to be half the distance by the way, only changing fairly recently. To understand it, we have to go back to post-World War II England, and to a hospital not terribly far south of Stonehenge. Harvard Hospital was for decades the center

Don’t stand so close: contact tracing with RTLS

Stefania Borchia2020-06-01T12:09:37+01:00April 27th, 2020|Blogs, Contact-tracing, Industry Trends, Technology Trends|

I’m pretty certain when Sting penned those lyrics back in 1980 he wasn’t imagining a manufacturing plant in 2020. Yet, here we are needing to rethink the way we work to ensure adequate social distancing to keep operating safely. Real-Time Location Systems (RTLS) that track the interaction of people certainly has a role to play. With a long history of successfully tracking the location and movement of things, we take this stuff pretty seriously.