Leicestershire electrical installations firm, Ventola Projects, has launched a new system set to add to the collective armoury in fighting back against the virus and safely reigniting the economy. The iCheck system not only monitors footfall and individuals’ and groups of customers’ temperatures but it can also dispense hand sanitiser and check and remind people to wear face masks, acting as virtual concierge or gatekeeper to event locations, entrance ways, shopping malls, and retail and entertainment venues of all kinds.
Melanie Collins
GlobalReach Technology has launched a new tool to help manage safe social distancing as offices and venues reopen after lockdown. Using existing public Wi-Fi networks, Crowd Insights can collect anonymous location, volume and movement data, even without user authentication. Pre-set limits identify crowding, triggering alerts to help the venue proactively manage safe social distancing.
When it comes to kiosks or other self-service solutions, security is a much-discussed topic amongst manufacturers, integrators and kiosk deployers.
Self-service kiosks are currently deployed as access control systems in different shapes and sizes. They are used to prevent self-service losses in the retail sector, provide exit checks at for example parking lots or as visitor management kiosks to facilitate the check-in process at hotels or businesses. This article by Pan Oston looks at how kiosks are being deployed to enhance security systems.
Evoke Creative, design-led manufacturer of interactive digital solutions, has Invested in the design and development of a kiosk – EV LITE|Temperature Check – which screens customers and employees on arrival at a premises. The kiosk has a contactless temperature check function along with an automatic hand sanitiser. Evoke Creative has also launched a contactless user experience which can be integrated into existing touchscreen applications.
Putting tech at the heart of retail recovery
Technology to highlight activity in stores isn’t something new. It’s something we have seen more and more of in UK retail outlets as they compete with online retailers for sales and rely on visual content to draw the shoppers in. Previously this may have been focused primarily on deals and aesthetics. The focus shift for many will now be to highlight effectively the actions taken to keep customers safe, the requests being made to support this effort and the justifications for both.
Josh Bunce, CEO of INURFACE Group takes a view on how retailers, big and small, must embrace technology if we are to recover from the impact of COVID-19.
Craft Data has introduced their latest range of hygienic contactless touch monitors designed for kiosk applications. The “UNTACT” touch monitor range uses infrared touch technology, however, whereas in conventional IR touch monitors the infrared touch is mounted as close to the display surface as possible, typically 5mm, “UNTACT” moves the infrared touch frame 25mm away from the display surface, making the detection of a stylus (finger or gloved finger) 25mm away from the physical touch point being displayed on the TFT LCD, hence “contactless”.
BrightSign LLC has announced that its Series 4 XD1034 players, installed by BrightSign’s partner in China, SCHOT, are powering seven LED video walls, showing impressive installation art across Hong Kong’s K11 MUSEA, the cultural-retail facility. Using BSN.cloud to deliver a weekly program of live streamed events, these performances by top musicians, dancers and theatre performers are relayed around the complex using the screens.
Even before COVID-19, hospitals and healthcare systems were already facing a new normal associated with patient care: the broader trend and consumer expectation of self-service platforms. Jeff Fountaine, director of healthcare solutions at Elo looks at the feedback loop of patient engagement through self service.
BrightSign, in collaboration with 22MILES has improved campus connectivity at Georgia Tech University, Atlanta.
22MILES’ approach to the project was to cement a collaborative partnership with the university’s technology departments, bringing the resources of 30+ developers into the equation, as well as innovators in the digital signage space such as BrightSign, and their purpose-built media players.
BrightSign, LLC, has announced BrightLink and BrightMenu to help retailers, restaurants and other businesses safely operate in the face of new health regulations brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic.
BrightLink is a new touchless solution that eliminates the need to physically engage with touch-interactive digital signage. Customers transfer control of the experience by scanning a QR code to their phones to browse or interact with content as they normally would, eliminating the need for physical contact.
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