Response Technology for Universities
Coronavirus has impacted the education sector in unprecedented ways.
One of the impacts that Universities faced early on is the move to online learning which presented many challenges including technical issues, disconnection from peers, self-motivation, time management and data privacy.
Universities have since moved to a hybrid learning model, with both online and physical teaching occurring, in order to continue teaching students.
With face to face teaching resuming, that will mean that for students returning to campus, spaces will need to be adapted to allow students to study and socialise safely on campus.
Universities are having to be both innovative and measured in this uncertain time in order to continue to focus on the health, safety and wellbeing of their university community returning to campus.
Universities have a range of challenges to deal with students returning to campus, this includes:
Challenge 1: Safe Re-opening
The challenge that schools face is the uncertainty on whether they can re-open safely for in-person learning.
This challenge raises the need to have a solution that can help campuses comply with health and safety guidelines such as limiting class sizes, social distancing and the use of protective face masks – providing peace of mind and allowing students and staff to return safely.
Challenge 2: Budget
Another challenge that educational institutions are facing funding cuts and budget freezes due to campus-wide closures.
In order to manage this challenge universities are looking at low-cost implementations that assists in creating a new way of operating during a pandemic.
Challenge 3: Curbing the spread
Universities face the challenge of curbing the spread once campuses are re-opened to students, faculty, staff and visitors.
Solutions that expedite contact tracing if an infected person is identified on campus, including advising potentially exposed people to self-isolate and increasing sanitation of contaminated areas is ideal.
COVID-19 Response Technologies
COVID-19 response technology solutions help to prevent the risk of contact, protect the safety of staff and students and respond to curbing the spread.
Read on to find out what Universities should be looking for in a solution:
Prevent: Leveraging AI analytics on video security cameras to limit occupancy rates, identify if staff and students are wearing face masks and uphold social distancing guidelines.
Using security technology such as occupancy counting analytics, social distancing analytics and face mask detection analytics can help universities to face these challenges.
Protect: Using body-worn cameras on essential service workers to deter public aggression against front line workers and first responders.
Respond: Contact tracing using access control solutions to identify where individuals who are infected have been and responding accordingly and detecting elevated skin temperature at the place of work using thermal cameras.
Our contactless access control technology, contact tracing technology and body worn cameras are all ideal in helping universities have peace of mind that they have the right tools in place to face this challenge.
Adapting to a new normal
Today’s safety and security priorities have changed. What should an educational institution look for when employing new technologies?
Insights: Cloud-based reporting should be high on any Universities list. Having video turned into data should be a priority as it helps for decisive action.
No ongoing costs: Analytics-based COVID-19 response technologies with no ongoing costs is an ideal option for Universities.
Continuous Innovation: Working with a company that is researching, testing and re-engineering technology to provide end-to-end response technologies to help curb the spread.
Wilson Security have a range of response technologies that can help Universities. For more information please click on the links below to find out more about these technologies:
