Safety in the Wake of COVID-19: How Technology Can Get You Back to Work
As mandatory lockdowns end and the American people prepare to slowly return to their normal routines, businesses across the country have become concerned about precautions they need to take to create a safe workplace. No business can survive without its workers, but an outbreak at the office, warehouse, or hospital ward can mean even more downtime and a potential shutdown. After months of slow or no business, it could be an existential threat. Not only that, if a worker or customer ends up getting sick and believes the company was too lax in taking precautions, they might pursue legal action. There can be other, less obvious issues as well. Tensions are running high, for example, increasing the likelihood of physical confrontations in offices, store aisles, warehouses, waiting rooms and hallways.
Essential Healthcare Projects: Meeting Challenges During a Crisis
In a major healthcare crisis, hospital administrators are called on to ramp up technical systems quickly to meet critical needs. At such a time, certain services are designated essential personnel, including those who implement medical infrastructure, networking, patient monitoring and nurse call systems. During a crisis, as with other types of workers, some of the regular contractors will likely go absent due to illness, fear, or quarantine requirements. When that happens, administrators must quickly find reliable contract vendors to fill the gaps and keep systems going.
This article provides important information and advice to ensure the successful selection and onboarding of contract technical personnel during a healthcare crisis.
Mass Notification Simplified: Automated 2-Way Discreet Messaging
One of the biggest problems in dangerous scenarios, such as active shooters, natural disasters and medical emergencies, is communication. How do you get word to the other side of a building or campus to let others know of the danger, so everyone has time to escape or find shelter or a hiding place? Until now, primary options for communicating dangerous events – other than running down the hall in person – were phones (voice or text), email, two-way radio and panic buttons, each activated separately, by different people. The time lag, exposure to human error and incomplete coverage could be, to put it delicately, deadly.
Now, thanks to a new ability to easily combine technologies and automate plain-language mass messages, the risks of dangerous events have been decreased. Lynx’s Duress and Emergency Notification System is saving lives and it leverages your existing infrastructure reducing the costs.
Limited Resources across Multiple Locations? Maybe It’s Time to Consider a Unified Networking Platform.
Schools, retail stores, hospitals, churches – many such organizations operate multiple locations. Each location may have different networking needs, but effective management teams require consistency and streamlined processes to make the operation logistically viable and affordable. The cloud made it possible to standardize specific wireless IT operations, such as software deployment, and management among multiple locations. However, for a long time there was no way to bring together management of both wired and wireless networks into one management platform.
Many decentralized organizations with locations spread apart geographically are feeling the effects of soon-to-be-outdated networking equipment and tedious manual processes,” said Anthony Nabower, Senior Network Engineer, of Prime Communications, Inc. (PCI). “These organizations may be facing the challenge of limited IT resources to begin with and may have limited budgets.”
New technology labeled unified network operations or cloud management, solves these problems and takes us into a new era of network management. In the following, we will introduce the benefits of this innovative technology. But first, let’s examine the common challenges cloud management addresses.
How Cloud-Based SD-Branch Technology Will Help Multi-Site Enterprises Streamline Networking & Reduce Costs
The popularity of legacy WAN (wide area network) systems are waning. Businesses are increasing traffic over connections, causing bandwidth issues. The amount of data transferred over WAN requires a large, expensive pipeline. WAN can be costly because of the robust equipment requirements at each remote location. Furthermore, networking personnel must be onsite for complex, time-consuming, installation and maintenance. As technology advances, WAN legacy systems are becoming outdated, and add-ons aren’t always as successful as we wish they were.
These factors are particularly challenging in an era when companies have a growing need for rapid deployments. Enter software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN), a cloud-based technology that has been a boon for businesses with multiple sites or locations.