Port tests smart bracelet to prevent corona infection

23 Apr 2020 / Antwerp, Belgium

Port of Antwerp is teaming up with the tech company Rombit to prevent corona infection on the workfloor. Rombit has developed the Romware Covid Radius, a digital bracelet that ensures social distancing and permits contact tracing. Port of Antwerp will be the first to use this innovative bracelet...

...This will help employees to observe the strict precautions laid down by the World Health Organisation (WHO) while respecting the privacy of the wearer… …Port of Antwerp will be the first to make use of the Covid functions.

The new Covid bracelet is aimed in the first place at social distancing. Whenever employees come too close to one another they first get a warning signal. However privacy is guaranteed: the Covid Wearable never passes on the location or other sensitive information to the employer.

At the same time the bracelet permits contact tracing: if someone happens to be infected then a health advisor or trusted confidant can check which work colleagues the person has come in contact with, in order to prevent further infection…

(For further details and updates, as well as information about operations in Belgium, contact GAC Belgium at [email protected])

Source: Excerpts from Port of Antwerp (www.portofantwerp.com) update dated 20 April 2020

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