Brash Concepts is an IT networking and security company that offers to monitor workers’ health on construction sites with the use of thermal cameras. The company already started adding thermal cameras for a construction company in New York, which should increase the security of workers as well as bring some certainty to construction sites in the “second phase” of COVID-19 pandemics.
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Monitoring Construction Sites with Thermal Cameras
Brash Concept’s system encourages workers to approach the construction site one by one so each worker could have their temperature measured by thermal cameras. This concept can’t define with certainty whether any of the monitored workers are carrying the virus, but can instead increase security by measuring the temperature of every worker entering a site.
Associated Builders and Contractors Approves the Use of Thermal Cameras
Vice president of construction technology and innovation for Associated Builders and Contractors, Matt Abeles, agreed that using thermal cameras is a good idea for making sure that the health of workers is in order. However, Abeles emphasizes that employee privacy needs to be taken into consideration as well. Rapid implementations of different technologies can result in compliance issues as security may cost the privacy of employees working on construction sites.
Social Distancing on the Force
One of the most important measures of prevention against the spreading of COVID-19 is social distancing. All construction workers are due to respect the measure of social distancing on construction sites, while software providers and Contech firms are offering solutions and tools to assure that all workers are kept 6ft apart when on the site. Smartvid.io, for example, created an AI system that can alert the managers of construction sites when employees are not operating following social distancing measures. Triax Technologies offers a similar solution, introducing wearables with IoT sensors that can help the workers keep the recommended distance.
