IoT, Covid, and good intentions

SafeValue must use [property]=binding: Covid Virus is a small, nimble, vile, and hazardous organism that normal human senses cannot detect. But people who return to their jobs after the peak of a pandemic have the right to be sure they return to the safe area. The Innovatus Capital Partners decided to create the monitoring system. Their engineers deployed air-quality monitoring sensors. These sensors allow getting the CO2 and mold levels, temperature, humidity in the working areas. The most crucial sensor's ability is to identify the presence of airborne particles; if there are signatures that might indicate coronavirus and various flu strains, an operator will be informed in real time. The data is processed by the Veea Edge Platform, collected via Wi-Fi, visualized, and displayed on screens throughout the facility. Considering that all info translates not only to authorized employees but to visitors and tenants, one can only imagine what will happen if the indicator turns out to be critical. Anyway - Praemonitus Praemunitus. Nutrien Ltd chose the other approach. It can best be summed up in a phrase from the Brothers Grimm fairy tale Das tapfere Schneiderlein: ""Seven at a blow." At the beginning of 2021, they created and Implemented a pretty complicated system that is aimed to watch for the social distance observance and employees interaction around the job area. The Proximity Trace technology, as they called it, uses lightweight tags that are attached to workers' clothing or hard hats and produces a real-time, audible and visual (flashing red light) alert to anyone who comes within six feet to support proximity monitoring. The information is automatically collected, stored, and analyzed so the company can track the movement of each of its employees and interact with other employees. We think they better call this technology Big Brother. "Big Brother is watching you" sounds beautiful, literary, and even somewhat epic. Thus Nutrien Ltd can avoid any harassment charges and non-official interaction of employees in the workplace. Can you imagine a system like this in your cozy office? Bright disco party in a lunchtime near the office watercooler what can be better! The Bay State College went even further, decided to implement a similar system based on enhanced Bluetooth/Wi-Fi net covered all college's territory. Each authorized person - faculty, staff, students, and visitors- has his ID with HID BEEK Bluetooth low-energy beacons. It has to be worn visibly at all times. It is traced by a Bluetooth antenna which is equipped with every wireless access point (AP). It listens sensitively for intermittent pings emitted from the ID holders, triangulates data from multiple APs, determines the relative location of the beacons, and then stores that data in a SQL database. Then Microsoft Power BI queries determine who was in the same place simultaneously for 10 minutes or longer with a possibly infected individual. It is our reality. If, after reading, you have developed a persecution mania, we don't agree that it is our fault. We are just developers blog who monitor curiously about using the IoT technology using in - we sure - for good purposes aimed at maintaining workers' and students' health and working capacity. You know the Road to Hell is paved with good intentions. (see http://g.co/ng/security#xss)