Social Distancing
Clubs, Music Venues Eye RFID to Reopen Safely With Reduced Contact
Billfold POS, which provides a contactless experience that includes payments and access control, is adding RFID-enabled ID checks and touchless payments as entertainment venues reopen, as well as a wallet app for stadiums, airports and other spaces.
Zebra’s BLE Proximity Solution Offers Distancing for Enterprises
The company's MotionWorks Proximity solution leverages the BLE and Wi-Fi functionality in Zebra Mobile computers, as well as cloud-based software, to alert workers when they are too close to each other, and to capture events and conduct contact tracing, without any infrastructure deployment.
Free Social-Distancing App
Regulr is giving away its new app to help keep people safe during the pandemic crisis.
Spatial-Awareness Technology Released for Hospitals, Factories and Logistics
A solution from Locix, employing high-bandwidth Wi-Fi technology, is in use by a Japanese facility owned by Prologis to help meet e-commerce demands as one of the applications the company sees being launched to meet post-COVID-19 challenges.
How Digital Distance Management Can Ensure the Resumption of Operations
Reliable distance control through an integrated warning system enables a reduction of new infections, as well as efficient COVID-19 management, allowing a quick restart of logistics, production and other company processes.
RFID Facilitates Safe Return to Work Post-COVID-19
Technology company Engineering has developed a sensor that warns of unsafe distances between workers in order to prevent coronavirus contagion.
RFID News Roundup
Arrow Electronics, Panasonic Industry, STMicroelectronics offer IoT modules; NFC Forum adopts bi-directional communication between smartphones, IoT devices; ProGlove provides social-distancing sensors for factory floor; Laird Connectivity unveils wireless IoT gateways; Nedap intros BLE-NFC vehicle gate access solution.
Kinexon’s Ultra-wideband Technology to Provide Social Distancing
The SafeZone system is a modified version of its proximity-detection solution that will allow companies to provide workers with wristbands so they can adjust their behavior based on alerts if their close proximity to others poses a health risk.
Smart Support in Response to COVID-19
Smart labels and packaging are safely supporting healthcare products for patients and professionals, thereby saving lives.