Siemens Smart Infrastructure has launched Enlighted Safe, a new digital contact tracking app that helps employees get back to work safely
Enlighted Safe provides greater transparency into the contact history of employees who are known to have tested positive for COVID-19. This is designed to support organisations in reducing exposure of infection, keep healthy employees safe and productive, and to eliminate the inefficient, expensive and error-prone manual contact tracing process for employers.
Built on Enlighted's ability to provide real-time location services, employees are assigned Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) identification badges while at work. The app keeps track of the location, movement and proximity of employees relative to each other during the period they are in the building.
If an employee is known to have tested positive, authorised administrators may query the Safe app, identify other badge IDs and disclose the list of anonymized IDs as part of their contact tracing process.
“As COVID-19 restrictions are lifted in some locations, ensuring a safe return to the workplace and re-building employee trust is a global challenge. Smart office technology can play an important role,” said Matthias Rebellius, chief operating officer of Siemens Smart Infrastructure. “With new and varied regulations coming into effect, our intelligent IoT solutions can support the safety and well-being of occupants and visitors. We help provide peace of mind and enhanced safety for employers, their workforce and visitors.”
With intelligent IoT analytics, the solution provides greater insight for authorised personnel to visualise contact events by the location visited, the duration of contact and the proximity data of affected employees within the workplace. The data is used to inform potentially exposed employees and to drive targeted sanitation efforts.
The application dashboard also provides transparency on building contacts, helps management develop safer workplace strategies for physical distance policies, enhanced sanitation and monitoring, occupancy limits and contact tracking. In addition, Enlighted Safe provides data-driven insights for organisations to proactively manage risks and design safer spaces.
