Shelton, CT, April 26, 2021 — TMC, a global, integrated media company helping clients build communities in print, in person and online, today announced the recipients of the 2021 Pandemic Tech Innovation Awards. The Pandemic Tech Innovation Awards recognize hardware, software, devices/peripherals, applications and services that help society and business function effectively in the face […]
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By Shrey Fadia, Analyst and Consultant, Artin Arts The Zephyr Project is a small, scalable real-time operating system for use on resource-constrained systems supporting multiple architectures, part of the Linux Foundation’s family of IoT open source communities. Today, the project announced their steady growth in products developed on their Real-Time Operating System (RTOS) that help […]
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The work from home trend was already in full swing when the COVID-19 pandemic hit and made remote work the standard for most companies. Since then, millions of companies have had empty offices with employees all working from their homes. It’s not a situation that is likely to entirely go away, even once the pandemic-driven […]
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Back in April, the World Health Organization launched a dedicated COVID-19 messaging service leveraging Facebook’s Messenger platform, following its release of a the project on WhatsApp a month earlier. The service was designed to provide everyone from government officials to the healthcare industry to the general population with the latest updates on the virus, including […]
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Whether you’re managing a business, school, or any other type of facility, the health and safety of anyone coming into your spaces has to be a top priority. The ongoing pandemic has created a reasonable fear of contracting COVID-19 in public venues where appropriate safety measures aren’t being taken. In turn, that has prioritized investment […]
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As the travel industry continues to see limited activity, and projections for when air travel might return to pre-coronavirus levels being measured in years, not months, it’s incumbent on the industry to do what it can to instill a sense of safety in passengers. Most airlines have implemented extensive safety protocols, as have airports, and […]
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One of the major areas of concern since the beginning of the pandemic has been keeping residents in nursing homes, assisted living facilities, and retirement communities safe. A nursing home in Kirkland, Washington, in fact, was the center of one of the earliest outbreaks in the U.S. Since then, similar facilities across the country have […]
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One of the biggest challenges businesses have experienced during the pandemic is communications. Specifically, when you move your workforces from office to home environments, how do you ensure they have access to the communications tools that enable interactions with customers and other team members? For telecom providers, the ability to enable remote communications has been […]
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As the world continues to adopt touchless technologies in response to COVID-19, what happens to all the public touchscreens that are already in use? Well before the pandemic, businesses and other organizations had started installing touchscreen solutions to create better experiences. In an effort to continue to enable that interactive experience while addressing health and […]
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With the start of the new school year, it’s not surprising to see a number of COVID-19 cases in many institutions, especially where groups of students clearly aren’t taking the threat seriously. Many schools, though are taking a firm stance on COVID-19 and have implemented solutions to reduce risk and, hopefully, help them keep their […]
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With the U.S. having now passed the 6 million confirmed COVID-19 case mark, it’s clear we’re nowhere near the end of this pandemic, especially with schools opening and more businesses bringing people back to workplaces. The increase in movement and activity brings with it increased risk, creating an incumbent need for organizations to closely monitor […]
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We’ve seen many of innovative solutions emerge since the beginning of the pandemic designed to help companies work effectively in teleworking arrangements, and then to help them safely bring workers back to offices. They include a variety of temperature and health screening, distance monitoring, traffic flow, cleaning tracking, and of course contact tracing solutions. Some […]
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The big challenge facing businesses today is keeping their workplaces safe so they can bring employees back and maintain operational stability. That means ensuring safe workplaces, which goes beyond enhanced cleaning and distancing protocols. Ideally, it means keeping COVID-19 out of the workplace, school, or whatever venue you’re operating. That means being able to collect […]
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The question the world is facing now, half a year into the COVID-19 pandemic, how can we safely re-start or continue activities without increasing risk of spreading the virus more? The answer has to be in technology – people have simply proven themselves unable to manage risk on their own, judging from the outbreaks we […]
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While nobody will argue the COVID-19 pandemic is a good thing, there is some good that has resulted. One is the massive uptake of connected health technologies, like telehealth, which has seen massive uptake since March. Once authorities relaxed regulations making it easier for healthcare providers to deliver care through telehealth, patients were able to […]
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As the world continues to grapple with the COVID-19 challenge, one of the challenges is how to make public spaces safer. That includes public transportation, which is used some 34 million times a day by Americans under normal circumstances. During the pandemic, ridership has naturally slowed significantly, as people are working from home, and even […]
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As it prepares to cut its workforce by about 19,000 in a few months, when a government-supported airline wage program comes to an end, American Airlines is also adding to its health and safety measures to help instill confidence that it’s safe to fly. In addition to its existing cleaning protocols, AA will be adding […]
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As we reach the end of August – and summer vacation for most students (and some school systems already back in session) – the debate continues over whether it’s safe to get back to in-person learning. There are very few people who argue virtual learning is a better option under any circumstances. That is not […]
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When will things get back to normal? That’s what everyone wants to know. By now, we should all understand that may not happen very quickly and it will happen in small stages as various improvements are made in health and safety protocols, as new technologies are implemented in different industries, as testing becomes more readily […]
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We’ve heard it time and again – we need more testing. It’s completely reasonable to expect that increased testing will help us better understand COVID-19 and reduce its spread. But, it’s not just testing alone – it’s also the speed of testing that’s a huge factor. If it takes several days to get test results, […]
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