How Do We Adapt 'Automatically' to the New Reality?
These special times we are living in challenge us in countless ways: from how we leave the house, do our shopping, do our jobs… everything has changed radically in just a few months. And the prospects of returning to the ‘normal’ life before the pandemic do not seem likely anytime soon.
We will have to learn to live differently, to understand and accept that changes in some mundane behaviors are necessary, to learn to live with them and make our ‘new normal’ as bearable and productive as possible.
What is certain is that the COVID-19 pandemic has brought health to the forefront of concerns for all of us. We have seen how companies and brands align themselves with supporting the healthcare sector, either by simply allowing employees to work from home, adapting production lines to manufacture masks or disinfectants, or adhering to and promoting the World Health Organization’s recommendations regarding social distancing and strict hygiene rules.
What we at KADRA have learned from this crisis is that some of the solutions we previously proposed for our beneficiaries to have as much comfort or ease of use have become solutions that primarily mean health safety. And one of these easily implementable solutions is the automatic door for access to high-traffic areas.
Sustainable Solutions for the New Normal
The busiest spaces during this period have remained grocery stores, supermarkets, pharmacies: these are the types of commerce that have remained open during the state of emergency and which people have needed the most. How many times have you seen queues in front of the corner store or the neighborhood pharmacy? These high-traffic spaces have had to manage two main aspects: strict hygiene, to limit the risk of contamination, from the moment customers enter until they leave the space, and access control, to comply with the social distancing rule.
We might not have thought until now that a simple entrance door could solve these problems simply and quickly. An investment that meets the needs of the immediate situation but will prove its profitability in the years to come.
Automatic Means Safe, Contactless, No Risk of Contamination
By automating access, contact with the door handle or knob is eliminated, a surface extremely exposed to the risk of contamination with pathogens, which has recently become public enemy number one. Wrapped, covered, protected with all sorts of makeshift solutions, from gauze to napkins or toilet paper, the handle has become the concern of any responsible store or pharmacy manager who wants to protect their customers or employees from the risk of infection. These improvisations may be temporary solutions, but they do not prove viable in the long term, especially since we will have to get used to strict hygiene rules and be much more careful about what we touch.
Automatic doors solve this problem from the start in the long term: you invest once for years, or even decades. You get rid of the troublesome handle, have safety in operation, comfort, and easily manage high traffic. You are prepared to face the new reality without disruptions to activity or additional worries.
Automation Allows for Access Control and Compliance with Social Distancing
The same automation also allows for access control in crowded spaces. This means that the door automatically locks when the maximum allowed number of people in the store or pharmacy is reached, and a simple message informing customers about this mechanism saves unnecessary discussions and other inconveniences.
Given that we will have to get used to a different way of handling people flows in enclosed spaces and managing crowds, integrated access control in the automation of the entrance door can prove to be a simple, elegant, and sustainable solution.
Today's Solutions to Live Better Tomorrow
Crises test our old habits, take us out of the rhythm we had, scare us, challenge us. The important thing is to regroup and build, even in a crisis.
At KADRA, we believe in viable long-term solutions, in investments that represent adaptations to the new reality, but which can be exploited in the future to make our lives easier, allow us to return to activity, develop, and perhaps live better and safer than we did before the crisis.
In the new paradigm, when we think about automated access solutions, we believe that any experience, product, or service will be reconsidered by the public based on the impact they can have on health. And we are determined to put all our experience and innovation capacity to work, alongside our partners, to propose advanced solutions in this regard.
At KADRA, you will always find a consultant ready to offer you the best solution for automatic, safe, and clean access.
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