Many companies have comprehensive business continuity plans in place to ensure that critical systems survive a crisis. However, protecting devices and data is not enough. You also need a plan to reduce the potential risk to employees, guests and customers when the doors to your business reopen.
The recent Covid-19 pandemic has created a new norm where “user continuity” has become a top IT initiative to support new business continuity plans. In particular, IT departments are taking the lead in helping their organizations answer key questions such as:
Wi-Fi technology for contact tracing for COVID-19
- If someone has identified themselves as positive for a virus (or is showing symptoms), who have they recently come into contact with?
- Which areas within the office campus did you visit?
- How long were they there?
- Are there certain areas on campus (i.e., “Hot Zones”) that are more susceptible to the spread of a virus?
- Can proactive measures be taken to prevent unnecessary contact?
wirelessmaxx offers you a unique and powerful solution to promote staff and guest safety as part of your comprehensive business continuity plan. This leverages AI-driven analytics, self-learning Wi-Fi and patented virtual Bluetooth® LE (vBLE) technology to seamlessly and cost-effectively deliver business-critical use cases such as hot zone alerting, user journey -Use information (recording traffic patterns) and proximity tracing.
wirelessmaxx can help its customers to implement new security tasks such as proximity tracing, travel mapping and hot zone alerting (see below) easily and cost-effectively. Mist's proven AI-driven Wi-Fi, patented virtual Bluetooth® LE, and premium analytics solutions provide scalable contact tracing and social distancing measures. Customers are also provided with control options to protect their individual privacy.
Note: This is based on the ID of a device, badge or mobile application. Certain user identities are associated with these IDs only if a) the customer issued the device or credential using part or all of a person's name in the device identification (e.g. BJSmith's laptop), or b) for personal devices, if the end user has chosen to use his name on the device (e.g. Jim's iPhone). Mobile applications using the Mist SDK only collect customer-configured data and transmit data directly to the customer. Mist only processes or stores the data for location information.
Hot zone alerting is based on the number of devices and their locations, not based on individual identitieswirelessmaxx works with technology partners that provide comprehensive solutions to support corporate contact tracing, social distancing, and other indoor use cases, such as wearable BLE badges, real-time notification systems, and applications that leverage Mist's open SDK for high-precision indoor location to be able to use.
By using Mist Wi-Fi access points and microservices in the MIST Cloud in conjunction with Wi-Fi and/or BLE-enabled devices such as phones and badges, organizations can now leverage the following business-critical use cases:
- *Proximity tracing: If an individual is identified as COVID-19 positive (or exhibiting symptoms of illness), businesses can quickly identify and notify other employees, guests or customers who may have been in proximity to that individual while on-site.
- *Journey mapping (traffic pattern recording): Customers can view traffic patterns and dwell times of employees who test positive for COVID-19 from the time they arrive on-site until they leave. The trip map can be used to identify high-traffic zones so customers can implement safety measures such as revising work areas and additional cleaning measures.
- *Hot zone alerting: By looking at the amount of devices and locations in specific areas, companies can split or redirect people traffic from congested areas using real-time, location-based alerts. You can also look at trends over time to identify specific areas for proactive action.
Customer quotes:
Before COVID-19, the primary reason for adopting public cloud was the desire for greater business agility and flexibility to support digital transformation. This drive has not gone away, of course, but now it is reinforced by an unprecedented push to achieve greater levels of business and application security, including consideration of application and business continuity and disaster recovery scenarios.
Pandemic planning is more important than ever these days. We're seeing more companies prioritize and allocate budgets to this initiative, and it makes sense for them to rely on readily available technologies from proven vendors like Juniper Mist to meet current and future needs.
With the return to the office imminent for many organizations, it is critical for us to quickly provide our customers with proven solutions that support health and well-being in the workplace. Not only does the Mist solution solve a real need within our user base, but it is built on the same WiFi, vBLE and cloud services we have used for years, making it easier for us to deploy and manage with confidence.
This article was translated from the original English text by Mist Systems:
Mist Systems Provides Strategic Solutions to Support Contact Tracing for the AI-Driven Enterprise
