A social distancing app is used that alerts when a colleague is too close via Network Rail.
Mind The Gap designed through Hack Partners, a London-based start-up, for the company to protect workers at work.
The generation uses audio and Bluetooth signals to stumble if users are very close to others.
Network Rail now makes extensive use of the application and is being rolled out to other companies.
“I am incredibly proud of the rest of our people for the role they played in making the country’s paintings the pandemic,” said Martin Frobisher, director of security, technology and engineering at Netpaintings Rail.
“As we begin to plan a return to work, we have surely looked at everything so that we can continue to keep our workers safe.
Employees can download the app and set the desired distance, according to government guidelines.
They will then be notified when the app user is too close.
Mind The Gap uses inaudible ultra high frequency sounds and Bluetooth to calculate the distance between phones, so it does not require an active internet connection to function.
Although many touch search programs have had problems, as it should stumble upon distances with Bluetooth, Hack Partners says mixing generation with audio measurement provides accuracy between 6 and 8 cm.
The app will continue to run in the background, which means it drains your phone’s battery.
Tests to date have shown that high-frequency sounds are not children, dogs, cats or hearing aids, said River Tamoor Baig, managing director of Hack Partners.
“It is very simple to relax with colleagues and distance yourself, so it is a reminder,” he said. “Additionally, the sound notification can help others confront their colleagues if they are not comfortable with distance, a difficult verbal exchange to have with their boss. “
Designed with user privacy in mind, Mind The Gap does not track other people and no sensitive knowledge is collected, stored or shared. This means that employers should not monitor the movements of employees, past or present.
At Network Rail, the app download is for employees.
Hack Partners hopes that workplaces will use the app to inspire those who need to feel safer again.
The company is also in conversations with developers of touch tracking apps who are suffering to get accurate Bluetooth distance effects.
“The use of generation for social estating has the prospect of helping to restart the economy by allowing more people to paint in offices and give a much-needed touch to infrastructure projects through paintings of structures on site,” said Will Cavendish, an engineering consultant. Arup’ virtual lead company.
“People naturally congregate in certain areas; navigation can make an invaluable contribution to opening up public spaces. “