How Touchless Technology is Creating a Safer Return to Education Facilities

There are a huge number of options when it comes to using this technology within the education sector.

The first and potentially most prevalent is in entry and exit systems. With social distancing rules in place, many educational institutions made the difficult decision to move to remote learning models during the pandemic ensuring the safety of their staff and students. Although we are now beginning to open more, there will still be an appetite for keeping track of the number of people in a building at any one time and ensuring the ability to maintain a safe distance from one another.

One of the most useful benefits of security and access technology is the tracking and analytics that they can provide, including the ability to send alerts should a pre-agreed capacity limit be reached. These limits can be set automatically, meaning that entry into any area of the building can be denied should the capacity be met.

Additionally, controls can be set by the user, ensuring that only those with the correct authority can access a particular area of a building, for example, onsite gyms or accommodation, or only allowing them to access at certain times.

There are, of course, other areas that can benefit from touchless technology within education, such as in the dining areas. Providing students with an app to order their food can not only help to cut down on queues and reduce close contact in the hall itself but may also encourage students to use the facilities more often. 

Many educational institutions are also using biometric solutions at the till to provide a cashless option for payment, again reducing person-to-person contact and helping to make students feel safer.

Touchless technology can also help in class, with interactive AV screens and digital learning apps becoming more and more prevalent to encourage students to get more involved in their learning, whilst maintaining safe distances and keeping cross-contamination to a minimum.