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

2024-03-26T16:26:30+00:00

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

From zero-code to contact-tracing in under a week2024-03-26T16:26:30+00:00
  • Two meters or not two meters that is the question

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

2024-03-26T16:26:31+00:00

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

Two meters, or not two meters: that is the question2024-03-26T16:26:31+00:00
  • Don't stand so close - contact tracing with RTLS

Don’t stand so close: contact tracing with RTLS

2024-03-26T16:26:31+00:00

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.

Don’t stand so close: contact tracing with RTLS2024-03-26T16:26:31+00:00