ICT in everyday life

Keflavík Airport (KEF) in Iceland has become the first to adopt Veovo’s new artificial intelligence (AI) passenger management solution as the country’s borders reopen. Live Passenger Forecasting is designed to prevent airport crowding, improve capacity-planning and boost operational efficiency. Veovo hopes these capabilities will help to build passenger confidence in air travel and support social distancing initiatives. Live Passenger Forecasting is designed to prevent airport crowding, improve capacity-planning and boost operational efficiency.

Spacewell monitors the use of all space types, including parking spaces, through different sensor technologies. Their preferred solution is using wireless sensors that capture data anonymously. This data is mapped onto colour-coded floor plans that provide an intuitive understanding of what goes on in your buildings and which spaces are busy or more quiet, both in Real-Time or in Time-lapse.

RespiraSense is a continuous and accurate discrete Respiratory Monitor that measures Respiratory Rate by uniquely measuring the Mechanics of Respiration.  RespiraSense’s innovative technology enables medical staff to detect the earliest signs of patient deterioration, due to conditions such as respiratory compromise, increasing the severity of sepsis, worsening pneumonia and oncoming heart attacks.

Tracing Ireland's Population (TIP) identifies COVID-19 clusters in local communities. Developed by Limerick brothers Dr Paul Byrnes and Patrick Byrnes, TIP is a manual contact tracing app that gives the Irish public control.
TIP identifies and notifies known close contacts of individuals whom are experiencing strong COVID-19 symptoms. By avoiding the use of bluetooth and geolocational technologies, TIP offers a transparent contact tracing process.

The simple solution uses UWB (Ultra Wide Band) technology to keep a safe distance between each other. Everyone in the office, factory or elsewhere where many people gather, wears a buzzer. As soon as the buzzer meets another buzzer within a radius of 1.5 meters, a warning signal follows. The buzzer is completely anonymous, so there are no privacy issues involved.

The SmartSense touchless PED push button, which has a five-inch activation range, aims to help reduce pedestrian exposure to contact viruses commonly found on push button surfaces. LightGuard is trying to help cities which are trying to “balance public safety with pandemic safety” by providing pedestrians the ability to activate crosswalks without using their bare finger.

Populus Street Manager helps city departments of transportation identify and communicate new street policies, including street closures due to emergencies, construction, special events, or temporary COVID shared street policies. Street Manager can also be used alongside Populus’ mobility management solutions which help city transportation authorities securely receive and analyse data from mobility fleets, such as shared scooters, mopeds, and cars, to support data-driven transportation policy and planning.

A group of London hospitals have banded together to create the London COVID-19 Digital Staff Bank: a centralised cloud-based platform for staff recruitment. The 14 hospitals are working together in conjunction with Patchwork Health and Reed Talent Solutions to ensure that temporary staffing contracts are filled appropriately and swiftly during the COVID-19 emergency.

All across the world, hospitals have been inundated with COVID patients, pushing aside other patients or treatments deemed nonessential, and increasing wait times for people that need medical attention for other reasons. To make matters worse, some medical facilities have been forced to close, limiting the options available and further exacerbating wait times.

In order to help residents better plan their outdoor activities and get outside safely, Singapore has created a publicly available map highlighting real-time visitorship status of parks. Locals can pull up the map before heading to a particular park to see if there is a comfortable amount of people around, and can find alternative parks to go to if not.