Facilities managers certainly have had their hands full this past year as new and unexpected safety and security challenges arose due to the pandemic. Unfortunately, we are not out of the woods yet. Here are three issues you may not have considered that could increase your risk in 2021.

Facilities managers were faced with a significant challenge during the pandemic — how to increase safety and security in their building to reduce the spread of the virus and protect employees and visitors who remained in the building. Looking back, we learned several significant lessons that we can carry forward to continue to support our COVID-conscious environment. Here’s a look at some of those lessons and how technology became part of the solution.

TRL Systems, Inc. is excited to announce its partnership with Verkada, the leader in AI-enabled, cloud-based physical security. Verkada is the first enterprise physical security company to provide real-time visibility into buildings by seamlessly combining video footage with access-based events in a simple, cloud-managed platform.

New technologies can help healthcare providers and public health officials win the race against the spread of virulent diseases by using real-time location services (RTLS), computer automation, and big data for successful contact tracing and virus mitigation. This article will shed light on modern RTLS contact tracing platforms with COVID-19 as a use case.