Solutions to Counter Covid
- Protect visitors and staff from infection
- Reassure people that it is safe to visit and use touch screens and AV systems
- Introduce new interpretation options and revenue streams
Although touch screens and AV equipment are some of the easiest things to keep clean, a significant proportion of users will be circumspect about using them. Here are some practical solutions and new technologies to keep your touch screens and AV equipment hygienic and reassure people that they are safe visiting you.
InfoAktiv Mobile
Use the new InfoAktiv Mobile service and let people explore your information on their own phones without touching anything. To use it, a visitor simply scans a QR code with their mobile phone’s camera.
InfoAktiv Mobile is amazingly quick, easy and cost effective to deploy. The service adds a fantastic new dimension in terms of content and reach. It has vast potential to use for any number of low cost interactive labels, guided tours, audio and video information around your site. The InfoAktiv Mobile content can also be accessed from your web site or within virtual tours.
DEEP CLEAN SCREEN Software and 'PROTECTED BY' Scheme
Real time detection of touch screen cleaning.
Use DEEP CLEAN SCREEN software to ensure that touch screens and other equipment are cleaned and sanitised properly.
DEEP CLEAN SCREEN is software that can prompt you or users of your equipment to clean it at whatever interval you specify is right to minimise the risk of spreading infection. It can ensure that touch screens are cleaned properly by detecting that all of the screen is wiped. It also keeps a record of when and how thoroughly equipment was cleaned. Reassure the public that they are safe in your premises by displaying the ‘PROTECTED BY DEEP CLEAN SCREEN’ logo next to the equipment and on your web site.
Sanitizing Portable Tour Guide Systems
If handheld tour guides are important to your visitor experience or revenue, you won’t want their use to be curtailed by concerns about coronavirus. UV light sanitizers are widely used in the medical world and can provide a practical and effective way to sanitize handsets and reassure visitors. Unfortunately the waters have been muddied by a lot of less-than-credible gadgets being marketed to consumers. However, a very good Canadian company, Tour-Mate, has now produced a powerful UV sanitizer esspecially for tour guide handsets. They have done a really thorough job of the R&D and had it independently tested against live coronavirus in a European laboratory. The results are superb.
On-Screen Reminders to Sanitise Hands
It is a few moments work to change the attractor screen and/or the background screens on your InfoAktiv systems to add a message about sanitising.
Have sanitiser available beside the screen and add a picture and/or message to the screensaver, or replace it with a message saying words to the effect of “Please sanitise your hands BEFORE using the touch screen to protect others, and AFTER using it to protect yourself.”
You can download a sample PowerPoint screensaver here.
If gentle persuasion isn’t enough, we can interface touch screens, keyboards and other equipment to electronic hand sanitisers so that the equipment is locked until the sanitiser is triggered.
Virtual Tours
Consider virtual tours for those unable to visit.
We can take hassle and expense out of creating virtual tours. They can range from straightforward simple and effective views and information about your site through to full ‘video game’ style virtual reconstructions. There are approaches to suit every organisation’s needs and budget. We can do everything for you, creating and hosting tours, or can demystify it and help you to do much of the work in-house. Combining virtual tours with the latest InfoAktiv Mobile software even lets virtual visitors view what is on your touch screens.
Find out more about virtual tours here.
Touch Screen Styluses
Provide touch screen styluses for visitors who really don’t want to touch anything.
Low cost styluses that are designed and tested to work with your touch screens are available from under £1 each. Raise money by having them printed with logos as a souvenir item to sell in your gift shop, or give them away as a useful promotional item. Premium versions are available, as well as gadgets that incorporate a stylus and a pen.
Non-Contact Triggers for Audio and Video
It is usually quite easy to replace push-buttons with non-contact switches, timers or proximity sensors. Should you want to do this, just let us know and we’ll find the best solution for you.
Replacing Headphones with Directional Speakers
You might be able to replace headphones with ordinary loudspeakers, which are cost effective and sound good. If sound spill might be an issue, we can work with you to find the best solution to localise audio and control the sound.