SAFER SCHOOLS INITIATIVE
Designed to equip educational institutions with the tools and technologies required to ensure the health, safety, and well-being of pupils, staff, and visitors, Smarter Building Technologies (SBT) Alliance announces our Safer Schools Initiative.
SAFER SCHOOLS / SAFER SPACES ON-DEMAND WEBINAR
TOPICS COVERED
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Safe, accurate, and unintrusive temperature sensing
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Data-driven disinfection and cleaning management
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Digital contact tracing that respects privacy & anonymity
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Understanding Germicidal UV sanitization protocols & technologies
The SBT Safer Schools Initiative helps school districts across the country beef up response and preparedness efforts to prevent the spread of COVID-19 through cutting-edge, secure, Internet of Things (IoT) technologies. Our goal is to help prepare schools to combat COVID-19 as outlined under the U.S. CARES Act’s Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund (ESSER).
Why the CARES ACT Matters…
The CARES Act’s Elementary and Secondary Emergency Relief Fund provides critical funds to schools across the country in response to COVID-19 and helps schools prepare response efforts to limit the spread. SBT Alliance is committed to assisting schools in putting CARES Act support dollars to work to foster safer spaces for students and staff.
“Section 18001(b) of the CARES Act requires the Department of Education (Department)…to reserve 43.9 percent of remaining funds, or $13,229,265,000, for the Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund (ESSER Fund) authorized under section 18003 of the CARES Act…[to be issued] as grants to State Educational Agencies (SEAs) for the purpose of providing Local Educational Agencies (LEAs)…with emergency relief funds to address the impact that COVID-19 has had, and continues to have, on elementary and secondary schools across the Nation.”
(Authorized by the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act), Public Law 116-136)
CONFRONTING NEW CHALLENGES
School districts across the country face a bevy of new challenges in preparing school environments to reduce the spread of COVID-19. Under the SBT Alliance Safer Schools Initiative, school districts lead the charge with the latest technologies to confront the following operational challenges.
Operational Challenges
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Entrance / Exiting / Re-entrance Protocols
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Cleaning Management, Risk Mitigation & Contact Tracing
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Technology & IoT System Management
HOW OUR SAFER SCHOOLS INITIATIVE CONFRONTS NEW CHALLENGES
SCHOOL ENTRANCE, EXIT, & RE-ENTERING PROTOCOLS
Intelli-Temp Scanner
The Intelli-Temp Scanner helps school facilities operate under the new normal of the post-COVID-19 setting. The Intelli-Temp Temperature Scanner allows school districts to actively screen visitors, employees, and students for abnormal temperature before entering any building. The Intelli-Temp Scanner is ideal for attendance/employee sign-in protocols and highly engineered to ensure accurate temperature readings.
The Intelli-Temp Temperature Scanning system goes far beyond basic handheld units. With temperature readings from over fifty (50) points of reference, the Intelli-Temp delivers pinpoint results within 0.5 degrees. Compare that to typical handheld units on the market that use one (1) reference point that results in variations of 3.0-4.0 degrees, and you can see why the Intelli-Temp is a device you can rely on when it counts most.
Features
- Best-in-class IR camera
- 8-inch LCD display
- Floor, desk, wall mounting options
- 50,000 record storage capacity, ideal for compliance logging
- Gate, door, turnstile access control tie-in for added security
- CDC, HIPPA, ADA Compliant
- Mask detection and requirement setting (optional)
- ID card reader integration (optional)
Benefits
- Highly accurate temperature measurement (±0.5 °F)
- Quickly and efficiently scan 10-15 students per minute (30-45 staff/visitors per min.)
- Reduce the operational risk of staff/non-medical personnel taking temperatures
- Easily compile an audit log for temperature monitoring compliance
- Anonymous facial presence detection setting for temperature-only scans
- 3-year manufacturer’s warranty
SMART CLEANING MANAGEMENT & RISK MITIGATION
Creating Future-Proof Smart Spaces
SBT’s Safer School Initiative leverages Enlighted’s digital IoT infrastructure to provide data-driven metrics. These metrics empower school administrators and facility managers to prepare and respond effectively to a facility’s ever-evolving environment.
Non-intrusive intelligent IoT endpoint sensors create the digital backbone required to digitize your school and create a smart space. Typically these sensors are embedded into light fixtures and within various areas throughout your facility. Today’s advanced IoT sensors provide the necessary processing power, wireless communications, and multiple sensing capabilities to provide you with deeper facility insights around contact tracing and risk mitigation in the age of COVID-19.
Smart Beacons For Contact Tracing & Risk Mitigation
- Location of beacons/badges cataloged and recorded
- Configurable real-time alerts for too many badges in specified areas
- Identify and correct bottlenecks through heat mapping
- Provide Departments of Health the contact history for individuals testing positive
- Monitor and direct cleaning and sanitization efforts by identifying at-risk spaces
ANONYMOUS LOGGING
Respecting personal privacy is at the core of effective contract tracing and risk mitigation. Anonymous badge ID tracking preserves individuals’ privacy.
SPACE DENSITY
Understand space density at any given time and adapt routines to avoid clustering in any given area and mitigate transmission.
OCCUPANCY LIMITS
Set pre-defined space occupancy limits according to CDC and local health guidelines and requirements for indoor spaces. Receive alerts when occupancy limits surpassed.
PROMPT CLEANING
Obtain actionable data to drive regulatory compliance and healthier spaces through active and targeted sanitization and cleaning management.
Enhanced Santinization Through Germicidal UV
SBT’s Safer Schools Initiative also leverages the industry’s latest in Germicidal UV technologies to enhance surface and airborne sanitation. Readily utilized since the 1930s, Germicidal Ultraviolet technologies come in a variety of forms, including upper-air filtration, HVAC disinfection, and whole-room lamp disinfection. As of late, schools have begun implementing such technologies to reenforce sanitization protocols, including the University of Arkansas, Milton High School in Wisconsin, and many other school districts across the country.
UV Technology Applications & Configurations
SBT’s Safer Schools applies Germicidal UV technologies in a variety of configurations to ensure proper Air Quality Management (AQM), including:
- Room-Based UV & Air Filter Systems
- Upper-Room UVGI Systems
- UVGI Whole Room Bare Lamp Disinfection
- UVGI HVAC & Air System Configurations
TECHNOLOGY MONITORING & IOT SYSTEM MANAGEMENT
Creating & Managing Smarter, Safer Spaces
A smarter school environment goes far beyond saving money and increasing operational efficiencies. SBT’s Safer Schools Initiative tackles some of today’s more complex challenges, including COVID-19, while providing you with a single platform to seamlessly manage multiple technology systems. Now, this all sounds great, but where do you start? You start with SBT.
Start Smart with SBT Alliance
SBT Alliance is your IoT systems and solutions partner when deploying a solution under our Safer Schools Initiative. As an industry leader in pulling together the industry’s best, most-advanced, IoT technologies under our IoT Ecosystem and deploying them at speed and scale, you won’t find a better partner on the market.
Through innovative tools and unparalleled deployment experience, SBT’s team of project experts will guide you and your school district through your deployment from start to finish, and beyond, including:
- Project design & planning
- Deployment coordination & logistics
- Project management & systems configuration
- Ongoing system support & optimization
- Custom applications, reporting, & data analysis
Discover below how SBT’s innovative project management tools, software, and expert team make our Safer Schools Initiative a reality.
Leveraging Our Technology Ecosystem
SBT Alliance’s Safer Schools Initiative is rooted in pulling together the industry’s best, most cutting-edge technologies to bring you a solution that meets your specific needs. Not all school districts are the same or face the same risks. That’s why we work with you one-on-one to tweak your particular solution to meet your specific operational challenges and ensure you’re meeting local, state, and federal health recommendations. Including:
- Digital Contact Tracing
- Occupancy Limits
- Touchless Entry
- Social Distancing
- Sanitization & Cleaning Management
Control More With Our S | HUB Tablet
Our S | HUB tablet is what pulls together our Safer Schools Initiative. Control your Safe Space from a single location while monitoring multiple schools within your district from a centralized dashboard.
Crafted to ease the ongoing maintenance of today’s advanced control and IoT systems, our S | HUB tablet is your direct connection to our industry-leading team of system support engineers and technicians. Our S | HUB tablet is your single platform to manage the multiple facility systems and devices that make up our Safer Schools Initiative, all from a single device.
SBT’s S | HUB tablet and technology management platform arms you with the tools and technical support you need to deploy, monitor, and maintain a safer school environment.
Intelli-Temp Management
- Remote device management
- Automatic notification for abnormal screening
- Configurable reporting tools
- Tracing capabilities
IoT Controls Management
- Manage multiple building and IoT systems
- In-depth system insights at the touch of a button
- Command, control, and optimize your systems
- Access technical system support with a single tap
