2020 has made social distancing a new and crucial behaviour that all individuals must adopt in order to prevent the spread of COVID-19. As a result, commercial and public sector building managers are looking for ways to control occupancy on site.
Knowing how many people are on your premises has never been more critical. Not only are occupancy metrics essential data for understanding how your building is being utilised, but they will play a significant role in how you protect the health and safety of visitors and employees.
As stores, restaurants, and public venues around the world reopen, raising and maintaining people's awareness of personal health practices like wearing masks, washing hands, minding social distancing, avoiding overcrowded spaces, and more, becomes vital in promoting a safe environment. Remotely manageable digital signage is perfect for businesses to share the latest health and store information in creative and informative ways.
The Covid-19 pandemic and the social distancing guidelines that followed have caused a problem for place and facilities managers of office buildings and public spaces. You might know the total capacity of your building in normal times, but what about when you need to ensure the health and safety of staff and customers?
After months of employees working from home where possible, organisations across a number of industries and sectors are having to plan for people returning to the office. This reopening strategy will need to consist of making social distancing guidelines easy to follow, especially in high-traffic areas, as well as put in place measures to increase hygiene to prevent the spread of germs.
The manufacturing sector, like many others, has been affected by the strain of the COVID-19 pandemic. Although the industry already adheres to stringent regulations and has largely been able to continue operating throughout the crisis, few have managed to keep functioning at full capacity. Industry leaders and employees have welcomed the easing of lockdowns and the prospect of a return to regular activity, but not without concern for the challenges that a post-pandemic world presents. Both employers and workers are now prioritising the following issues even more:
Maintaining occupancy limits for social distancing in a commercial setting is a crucial benefit that people counting solutions are providing in the current climate. However, the adoption of this measure not only serves as a crisis plan for a future pandemic or epidemic, but also provides a range of benefits that your business can take advantage of in the long term.
With all companies slowly opening back up following the Covid-19 lockdown, the challenge for office-based organisations has been how to keep their employees safe.
Measuring occupancy has quickly become the go to method for supermarkets, stores and buildings to meet social distancing requirements and ensure that both customers and employees are kept as safe as possible. But this data has value beyond keeping people safe, how do you maximise this?
Social distancing, occupancy monitoring and how to count the number of people entering and exiting a building are all hot topics due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. We recently published a blog post about how to measure occupancy for social distancing and in it we discussed how mobile apps can help.
In this blog, we decided to dive deeper in to this topic and take a look at 6 mobile apps that can help you count people and measure occupancy.
About Irisys
As a leading supplier of people counting sensors, we have over 20 years of experience and have deployed more than 500,000 units.
Our latest product, Vector 4D, is the most advanced people counter ever with innovative features such as staff detection and dwell time monitoring.
Combined with highly accurate counting algorithms, our people counters are used in many scenarios, such as retail analytics, supermarket queue management and space utilisation applications.
Ultimately, we provide our end-users with accurate and reliable data that can transform their business.
