Insight uses Intelligent Technology Solutions™ to detect symptoms and prevent the spread of viruses

Insight Enterprises announced today in a press release that they’ve activated their Insight Connected Platform for Detection and Prevention solution at its warehouse and integration centers in Hanover Park, Illinois, and Lewis Center, Ohio.

The solution will be installed at 13 Insight office locations across North America, including the company’s corporate headquarters in Tempe, Arizona with the aim to have the proprietary intelligent technology as a protective measure to detect common signs of COVID-19 and prevent the spread of viruses within the workplace.

Ken Lamneck, Insight president and CEO of Insight explained why they developed the technology by saying: “When we established Insight Connected Platform, its original purpose was to make IoT and AI mainstream and scalable enough to solve everyday challenges in business and our communities. With the pandemic, we saw a critical need emerge to help address how airports, restaurants, factories, stadiums, and companies like Insight regain a sense of normalcy. So when we bring back our own teammates to the office, we’re striking a practical balance between business needs and the continued health and safety of our teammates. Technology like this helps companies take the steps they need to ensure going back to work or out to play can be OK again.”

Insight are a Fortune 500-ranked global provider of Digital Innovation, Cloud and Data Center Transformation, Connected Workforce, and Supply Chain Optimization solutions and services, with a connected platform that helps clients successfully manage their IT services.

Since Insight was founded in 1988 the business has grown to over 11,000 team members, operates in 21 countries across the globe, and claims to have over 4,500 technical resources.

Insight’s Connected Platform draws from the Internet of Things (IoT) and artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities for applicable uses across all industries to deliver real-time insights from public places by combining data from a range of devices, cameras, and sensors.

An example of Insight’s Connected Platform being operated is in the healthcare sector where the platform gives healthcare workers a wait time and crowd sizing via a single, intelligent dashboard to support smarter, safer testing.

The platform offers features and capabilities that include a mobile application that can help detect signs of a virus and instruct people to stay at home as well as a thermal monitoring solution that uses thermal cameras to screen elevated body temperatures of up to 40 people at a time.

Insights Connected Platform offers infection prevention technology which includes the following features:

• Optical cameras running edge-vision, machine learning modules to identify required social distancing and facemask adherence
• Sensors and smart cones monitoring safe social distancing in lines, and automated audio prompts to alert employees and guests
• Smart hand sanitation stations, capable of connecting to radio-frequency identification chips in employee badges to remind them to practice good hygiene
• Tablets, including a health questionnaire conducted by a chatbot, to enable non-contact communication between business staff and patrons

Smart technology is shaping up to play an integral role in resuming normal business operations post-COVID-19 with emerging technologies such as tracing apps and thermal screening being implemented to help identify illnesses.

In fact, respondents to the 2020 Insight Intelligent Technology Pulse: The Impact of COVID-19 on Business Readiness report and survey 58% said they plan to invest in smart personal hygiene devices, 36% in contactless sensors, 35% in infrared thermometers, and 25% in thermal cameras. One-third also said they intend to use an IoT ecosystem similar to Insight’s Connected Platform to aggregate data from these devices.

Stan Lequin, vice president and general manager for Digital Innovation at Insight explained how their technology will help people in returning to normal day-to-day activities by saying: “Intelligent technology is an enabler working alongside the more human touches of looking after our wellbeing, yet without needing to be literally hands-on to take care of people. We’re talking to many interested clients – hospitals, grocery stores, theme parks, sports teams, manufacturers, you name it – who are conscientiously looking for sensible approaches to returning people to normal day-to-day activities. Our platform helps make that possible for almost any situation,”

Insight has partnered with a multi-disciplinary team of industry leaders including Citizen Care Pod Corporation, WZMH Architects, and PCL Construction, in collaboration with Microsoft, Dell, Intel, and Bosch to launch Citizen Care Pod, a turnkey mobile COVID-19 testing unit that can be installed rapidly in high-traffic business environments and public places.

Over the next month, Insight is installing its Detection and Prevention solution at nine of its corporate offices and warehouse and integration centers across the USA.