Tempe, Arizona — (BUSINESS WIRE) — Insight Enterprises (NASDAQ: NSIT) announced its proprietary intelligent technology designed to help detect common signs of COVID-19 and prevent its spread in the workplace.

This week, the company activated the Insight Connected Platform for Detection and Prevention solution at its warehouse distribution and integration centers in Hanover Park, Illinois, and Lewis Center, Ohio. The solution will soon be installed at 13 total Insight locations across North America, including the company’s corporate headquarters in Tempe, Arizona.

Insight Connected Platform draws from Internet of Things (IoT) and artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities. The platform derives real-time insights from high-traffic work and public places by unifying data from a wide range of devices, cameras and sensors.

The platform orchestrates the following applications to help detect signs of virus:

Before coming to the office, an Insight-developed mobile app allows workers to take a daily self-assessment for workplaces – if a possible health concern is identified based on CDC guidelines, the app instructs workers to stay home instead of potentially putting others at risk

As part of Insight’s stand-alone Thermal Monitoring Essentials solution, thermal cameras and non-contact kiosks at entryways quickly screen for elevated body temperatures among groups as large as 40 people, using CDC guidelines.

Mobile COVID-19 testing:

Insight also has partnered with a multi-disciplinary team of industry leaders – including Citizen Care Pod Corporation, WZMH Architects and PCL Construction, in collaboration with Microsoft, Dell, Intel and Bosch – to launch Citizen Care Pod, a turnkey mobile COVID-19 testing unit that can be installed rapidly in high-traffic business environments and public places. Insight Connected Platform helps caregivers monitor wait times and crowd sizing via a single, intelligent dashboard to support smarter, safer testing.

On the prevention side, the Connected Platform also can manage:

  • Optical cameras running edge-vision, machine learning modules to identify required social distancing and facemask adherence
  • Sensors and smart cones monitoring safe social distancing in lines, and automated audio prompts to alert employees and guests
  • Smart hand sanitation stations, capable of connecting to radio-frequency identification chips in employee badges to remind them to practice good hygiene
  • Tablets, including a health questionnaire conducted by a chatbot, to enable non-contact communication between business staff and patrons

Smart technology will play an important role in resuming normal business operations post-pandemic, according to IT leaders from 200 North American enterprises who were polled in Insight’s newly published report, the 2020 Insight Intelligent Technology Pulse: The Impact of COVID-19 on Business Readiness. In the survey, 58% said they plan to invest in smart personal hygiene devices, 36% in contactless sensors, 35% in infrared thermometers and 25% in thermal cameras. One-third also said they intend to use an IoT ecosystem like Connected Platform to aggregate data from these devices.

Over the next month, Insight is installing its Detection and Prevention solution at its two Tempe corporate offices; offices in Conway, Arkansas; Tampa, Florida; Addison, Illinois; Eden Prairie, Minnesota; Austin and Plano, Texas; and Spokane, Washington; and in Canada, at its Edmonton, Alberta, office and its warehouse and integration center in Montreal, Quebec.

For more information on Insight’s virus detection technology, go to insight.com, email ConnectedSolutions@insight.com or call 1-800-INSIGHT.

Contacts

Scott Walters
Insight Enterprises
Tel. (480) 889-9798
Email: scott.walters@insight.com

Ariel Kouvaras
Sloane & Co.
Tel. (212) 446-1884
Email: akouvaras@sloanepr.com