Birlasoft Ltd [BSE: 532400, NSE: BSOFT], part of the USD 2.4 billion diversified, The CK Birla Group, recently launched intelliOpen™ -. It is an integrated digital solution based on IoT, Analytics, AI, and other wearables which will strengthen the return-to-work strategies, and also aid the companies to restart their business operations.
In the current situation, when the panic is increasing every employee will expect a company to take the necessary precautions against the spread of COVID-19. Birlasoft ensures safety and protection of all the employees. intelliOpen is an intelligent system which enables and integrates four important major components of protection: Self screening, Thermal Screening, Social Distance Compliance and Contact Tracing.
The Companies have to closely monitor the health and safety measures that can prevent the spread of COVID-19. The main step is preventing the workplaces from becoming hot-spots as it will not only affect the business continuity but also the number of infected people will increase as the spread can happen due to coming in contact with people who are asymptomatic. This can be kept under control using Digital technologies which uses a proactive mechanism to check the spread.
Ajit Singh Chawla, SVP & Global Head, Digital Business Unit, Birlasoft said that both live and livelihood is equally important. Using intelliOpen, Birlasoft uses digital technologies to keep it’s customers safe during and post-COVID-19. intelliOpen will also help their customers in Manufacturing, Retail, Airline, Hospitality, Energy & Utilities, Life Sciences, BFSI, Real Estate and other industries.”
intelliOpen is built using Birlasoft’s award-winning platform – intelliAsset™. It is powered by Microsoft Azure. It uses Azure Cognitive Services, which improves the experience for social distancing and contactless operations. It also has Data visualization capabilities.
Venkat Krishnan, Executive Director, Commercial Partners, Microsoft India said that the businesses are getting back to work to ensure economic recovery but it is very important that the employers closely monitor the health and safety of the workforce. intelliOpen™ is a highly secured and scalable cloud platform which will help in the management of this activity critical for every organization. intelliOpen is integrated with time, attendance and security access systems. It generates automatic alerts for the EHS and facility management teams when in case of detection or non-compliance of social distancing norms.
John Westfield, ISG Partner – Consumer Services said that ISG has clients and prospects that are looking for an adaptive solution to ensure safety of it’s employees and at the same time ensuring individual privacy. Birlasoft has created a solution that integrates enterprise hardware with the pre-existing HR systems for tracking and reporting employee well-being.