Intelligent Securty Systems (ISS), a provider of intelligent video management system (VMS) and analytics for a myriad of security and business intelligence applications, has added SecurOS hand sanitiser to the COVID-19 return to work solutions offered by the company
Built on the Artificial Neural Network ( ANN) and Intel’s imaging technology, the new analytics is designed to detect if an individual has not properly cleaned their hands in a designated area where hand washing and/or hand sanitising is required.
The demand for hand sanitiser analytics, initially developed for use in the foodservice industry, is rapidly trending to meet emerging compliance requirements in a post-COVID-19 world.
“One of the most basic ways to prevent the spread of COVID-19 involves hand washing and sanitisation. Like many drugs that were developed for other ailments that are now being used to combat COVID-19, our SecurOS hand sanitiser analytics was initially in development for another purpose, but seems most appropriate now as an intelligent and autonomous solution to help prevent the spread of this deadly virus,” said Aluisio Figueiredo, CEO of Intelligent Security Systems.
The solution integrates Intel Realsense cameras with the SecurOS analytics platform of ISS to identify and analyse skeletal body shape postures and movements.
Realsense’s combination of image depth metadata and ISS NN analytics tracks hand movement in the washing/sanitising act. SecurOS platform further processes the metadata, which defines actions as combinations of elementary movements.
For example, the elementary movement “person bends her arm more than 90 degrees” may be part of the complex action “person responds a phone call” – which itself includes several alternative descriptions each consisting of multiple movements.
Similarly, the SecurOS platform can define set of actions indicating that a person is washing his/her hands in a basin/sink or standing in front of a free-standing sanitising liquid dispenser and rubbing his/her hands together appropriately and for the time required. The vocabulary of the ISS SecurOS platform is constructed using natural language and in this respect is similar to IBM’s Watson.
Combined with other precautions and mandates for risk mitigation, the solution can lessen the impact of the current pandemic and help avoid the potential of the second wave of COVID-19 infection, and help reopen schools, businesses and facilities safely.
