Powercast’s wirelessly-powered RFID temperature scanning system enables businesses to easily and safely monitor employees’ temperatures as businesses work to reopen and get back to normal.

Parks Associates’ new research, COVID-19: Impact on Telehealth Use and Perspectives, finds over 50 percent of U.S. broadband households are willing to share smartphone data to aid in COVID-19 contact tracing, while another 20 percent could be convinced provided privacy protections are in place. 

The reality is that employers will need to invest in technology from doorknob to desk that keeps employees safe against COVID-19 and other viruses in the coming years, leading to opportunities for security integrators.

HID Global announced additions to its HID Location Services IoT ecosystem that simplify and streamlines managing employee social distancing and conducting contact tracing, while driving compliance to federal, state and local requirements to help prevent workplace exposure to COVID-19.   

Available via download for Hirsch customers, the free feature has been launched to support worldwide office re-openings with improved health and safety management tools.