Integrated Automated Solutions in the Fight against COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic has changed our lives. From the way we shop to the way we work, more from home than from the office, to the way we interact or spend our free time.
Everyone is trying to find solutions to maintain a normal pace of life, to protect our health, and to adapt to the new context with all its challenges.
The golden formula promoted during this period is: maintaining physical distance, careful hand hygiene, wearing masks. However, there are other measures we can take to protect our health. At the beginning of October, in Germany, these guidelines were supplemented by periodic ventilation of rooms – perhaps the cheapest and most effective measure we can take.
Natural Ventilation of Rooms Can Prevent Virus Transmission
The aerosols we emit into the air when we breathe can persist in the environment for several hours. If contaminated with a virus, such as SARS COV 2, virus transmission is possible even at distances greater than two meters if indoor spaces are insufficiently ventilated. Efficient ventilation ensures the supply of fresh air and the removal of stale air from the interior, thus reducing the risk of infection with virus-carrying aerosols.
Natural Ventilation: an Efficient Solution for a Healthy Environment
If at home, the ventilation of living spaces is done manually by opening windows, in public spaces such as schools, hospitals, offices, factories, or restaurants, an automated solution is rather recommended to allow this natural ventilation. Coordinated by a central control and regulation unit and equipped with sensors, automated natural ventilation ensures a natural air exchange with minimal energy consumption. At the same time, automatic openings and closings, performed by an electric motor, of windows, for example, can be integrated into the building’s fire protection system, as this method can also manage and eliminate smoke in case of fire. The same window automation solution has multiple benefits for health and safety.
Supermaster
It is one of the most versatile and powerful motors on the market, ensuring all the above-mentioned features.
Supermaster:
- one of the most powerful window actuators;
- robust construction;
- can open windows both externally and internally due to numerous accessories;
- can be installed on any type of window;
- massive stainless steel chain;
- adjustable closing stroke to prevent window damage;
- adjustable accessories allowing the motor to pivot 180 degrees;
- 800mm stroke;
- 400N force.
Safe, Clean, and Automatic Access in High-Traffic Areas
Avoiding crowded spaces remains one of the basic recommendations in the fight against COVID-19. Yet, we are sometimes put in situations where we need to go to the office, visit certain public institutions, medical clinics, or shopping centers. All these units are required to perform a minimum epidemiological screening at the entrance to prevent the spread of the virus.
Temperature Measurement: Simple, Remote, with the Smartest Thermoscanner
Temperature measurement at the entrance has become a rule in most enclosed public spaces. Usually, this is done by the institution’s staff. However, there are automated solutions, safer and more elegant, such as next-generation thermoscanners that have additional functions besides temperature measurement.
Correct Mask Wearing Makes a Difference
Having become mandatory almost everywhere, in enclosed spaces and even in open ones, the mask is an accessory that some of us find harder to get used to and tend to innovate in terms of wearing it. The same thermoscanner that vigilantly measures temperature is capable of identifying the correct wearing of the mask by the person seeking access to a certain space. An extremely useful automatic function that can eliminate potential discussions or tensions with the staff of the shopping center, clinic, school, etc.
Once the temperature and mask-wearing are validated, access can be done automatically, simply, and quickly.
Intelligent Thermoscanner, with Multiple Functions
- temperature reader;
- identifies correct mask-wearing;
- when both conditions are met, it sends a signal to automation (whether it’s an automatic door, turnstile, or access control) to allow access;
- has multiple types of mounts so it can be adapted to any type of application.
Proper Hand Hygiene: It's Never Too Much
Frequent hand washing is one of the most effective and simplest methods to avoid illness and the spread of diseases.
Throughout the day, we touch various surfaces and objects, and thus, hands gather all sorts of pathogens. We can easily get infected if we then touch our nose, eyes, or mouth and can also transmit them to others. Although it’s impossible to have clean hands all the time, frequent washing helps limit the spread of bacteria, viruses, and other pathogens.
Proper Hand Disinfection Reduces the Risk of Contamination for Oneself and Others.
What do we do when we can’t wash our hands traditionally with water and soap? We turn to alcohol-based disinfectants that also eliminate pathogens and ensure clean hands when shopping or just arriving at the office or gym, after using public transport or touching various surfaces.
Access to such spaces can be controlled and clean with turnstiles that also have the valuable disinfection function. Such an intelligent turnstile does not allow access until hand disinfection is performed in specially designated areas for this operation.
AVIR 800 – Turnstile with Disinfection Function
- ensures hand disinfection before allowing access;
- can work in tandem with a thermal scanner;
- made of stainless steel for easy cleaning/disinfection;
- allows the use of various disinfectant solutions.
We are not in Star Trek and we wish to return to life before the pandemic, but this challenge we all experience today can teach us more about how to protect our health and use technology as intelligently as possible for our safety.
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