Pilot uses IoT to reduce Covid spread in buildings
Steve Rogerson, IMC
Microshare is highlighted in an IMC article that discussing a system that used technology jointly developed by IoT specialist Kerlink, data management company Microshare and sensor maker Enless Wireless. The combining off-the-shelf IoT technologies and equipment with mathematical models that simulated the propagation of Covid-19, a pilot at the Kremlin-Bicêtre AP-HP university hospital in Paris has demonstrated how building managers can limit the spread of viruses. The eight-month trial in 2021 included nearly 200 students and about 20 staff volunteers who wore Bluetooth-enabled badges during their classes, labs and shifts at the faculty of medicine at Kremlin-Bicêtre Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP). In addition to continuous monitoring of building air quality, the system monitored occupants’ movements and whereabouts using dedicated mathematical models developed by two Paris-Saclay University scientists. These models simulated the propagation of Covid-19 in the student population, based on contact-tracing matrices.
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