As we gradually move towards the halfway mark of 2020 as well as the active existence of COVID19, conversations about returning to life with several necessary precautions are being discussed. After three extensions of lockdown across the nation and nearly two months of near-rigourous confinement, cases in India stand at a little over 78,000. Some areas have borne the brunt of this virus worse than others, and the battle to suppress the disease continues in cities like Mumbai, Chennai and Ahmedabad. Meanwhile, several other cities that followed the rules of lockdown are now in the 'green' zone, and hope to resume normal activities soon. While the IT sector is by and large looking to migrate to a more sustainable tele-work model, there are many sectors that cannot sustain any longer without staff. 

It is a tough call. There is an element of fear and uncertainty, even as livelihoods are at stake. However, it's not all dreary for businesses. In cities like Bangalore, shops and establishments are cautiously optimistic and are working on implementing sanity checks before opening for business. Norms like social distancing and sanitisation will be part of our social fabric for a considerable period of time. 

COVID19 has re-emphasised the need for human/ worker safety above all, and technologies can greatly help in ensuring worker safety is maintained at all times. Gurugram-based retail analytics company Veda Labs has introduced a COVID19 Safety Kit, which is a comprehensive solution to allow key parameters like social distancing, mask detection, fever screening, space occupancy and sanitisation alerts. 

Veda Labs is primarily a retail analytics company that enables retailers with strategic and insightful data on various parameters that gauge RoI on their marketing, primarily by utilising computer vision and machine learning. Some of the value based offerings include 3D depth sensing technology and AI enabled footfall counter, Demography classifier to detect age and gender of shoppers, advanced facial recognition, customer journey in a store through heat maps and tamper alerts. 

Using the learnings from these offerings, the company has announced a touchless facial recognition and thermal temperature mapping based attendance system, allowing enterprises to get rid of the conventional thumb-touch based biometric attendance system, identifying sick employees or visiting guests, taking effective long-term measures and regain the confidence of their staff. The company is also providing an interactive dashboard with features that can help enterprise tackle multiple problems in a single place, and helping them fight COVID-19 effectively. 

• The team decided to launch a multi-solution platform after analysing the challenges that were being seen in the past couple of months: 
• Scanning for a fever is inadequate - it is important to reinspect, maintain action protocols and record keeping to address the crisis, without which the process effectiveness is largely limited 
• Rapid and real time updates of fever scanning is essential in the long term so that leaders across the board are fully equipped to deal with potentially sick employees as effectively as possible 
• Given the dubious and often untraceable nature of COVID19, we're effectively in an era that demands sharp surveillance measures. It will be extremely important to ensure masks are worn by people moving around in public spaces and thermal imaging-based detection to highlight potentially ill individuals in crowds. 
• We're still in the stage of flagging off someone with a fever. It is critical to follow up on other parameters for stringent safety. 

Veda Labs is utilising data to provide relevant insights to businesses so they can act swiftly and address specific issues as they were. Their software provides data points and rapid visualisation of important metrics for process improvement and people management by enterprises and businesses across domains. 

The multi-solution platform provides: 

Temperature sensing

Everytime someone enters your store or office or any other place, Veda's sensor monitors the Temperature of each individual uniquely allowing you to track & flag person and take actions. It is extremely important for you to trust in the system as it is built on the state-of-art technology that provides accuracy in -0.05deg to 0.05deg accuracy range

Mask Detection - Safety Measure Built For Scalability 

With COVID-19 the new normal suggests the use of masks in day to day life, and there needs to be a pro-active system that keeps a track of all the people entering your place to check the usage of masks at all time. Built on the top of state-of-art facial detection algorithms that makes sure to monitor each aspect of each pixel to present pin point accuracy on the usage of masks and works flawlessly for large number of faces at the time simultaneously.

Social Distancing - Monitor queues and Keep Floor Areas Secure

Social distancing is a key phenomenon for safety, and be it a retail store or an airport, monitoring queues and the distance between each individuals is extremely important for the safety of others. Veda allows you to monitor the social distancing in queues making you aware of all the norms.While the shoppers/travelers/office staff are on the floor, it requires a pro-active system even then to monitor the social distancing phenomenon to keep the entire floor safe and pro-active about security.

Sanitization Alerts

Space sanitization is extremely important wrt to having to follow all Precautionary measures. Keeping the space disinfected allows you to keep it safe for all the people who will be using the space, and this is where Veda sends real time alerts which allows you to perform stanitization activities at a proper frequency.For a floor or a meeting room that gets used at regular frequencies, it needs a system that send pro-active alerts in keeping a track of that places sanitization. Veda sends out alerts based on space usage and makes it easier and efficient for you to keep entire space safe.