Minimal coding IoT tools developer VANTIQ has launched a toolset to enable software developers to build real-time applications to protect workplaces against the spread of COVID-19 in minimum time.

The Back-To-Work Accelerator includes pre-built components and device integrations that allow developers to build customised and extensible workplace solutions. These solutions integrate with a spectrum of real-time data sources and devices, including AI-enabled cameras, IoT sensors, real-time location data, enterprise systems and many other technologies. 

Six pre-built components —- symptom detection, physical distancing, contact tracing, access management, safety compliance, and asset monitoring —- allow businesses to manage critical events in real time so that automated systems and human responders can react swiftly and with far greater effectiveness to mitigate the spread of COVID-19.

VANTIQ partners have already used Accelerator components to create COVID-19 back-to-work solutions. Software consulting firm Bits In Glass created a virtual queuing application to help retail businesses manage physical distancing measures by removing the need for in-person lines. Another VANTIQ partner, Amorph Systems, leveraged the Accelerator kit to build an Infection Detection and Containment System for airports, which combines thermal cameras, flight and passenger information, and real-time communication to support airport operations crews to identify possible contamination.

“Companies around the world need an integrated set of real-time, back-to-work protections that can be deployed quickly and seamlessly within their current environments,” said Marty Sprinzen, co-founder and CEO of VANTIQ. “That’s what the Back-To-Work Accelerator enables. Now, developers can create turnkey, real-time solutions that address the most common pandemic-related workplace requirements. We look forward to a new era of innovation and adoption of real-time applications that can help the world restart.”

“Without VANTIQ’s Back-To-Work Accelerator, building our physical distancing application would have required months—or longer—and massive resourcing. VANTIQ’s event-driven architecture and open, low-code technology compressed the timeframe to develop down to two weeks. This is truly breakthrough technology for building real-time applications that are needed in workplaces around the world, now,” said Scott Heather, VP US Professional Services at Bits In Glass.

“VANTIQ’s Back-To-Work Accelerator made it possible for us to rapidly integrate new devices and data sources with our airport operations system, AMORPH.aero. That has enabled a powerful new set of capabilities to help airports apply real-time health measures to keep passengers and airport workers safe, now and in the future,” said Dr Frank Frauenhoffer, managing director of Amorph Systems.