A Belgian deck hand and a captain wear a Romware Covid Radius bracelet at the Port of Antwerp. The virus has opened the doors to surveillance and monitoring technologies that many fear are here to stay. — AFP
A "Romware Covid Radius bracelet” beeps every time a Tata Steel Ltd worker in the UK or a docker at Belgium’s Antwerp port is within virus-catching distance of someone. At Bouygues SA construction sites and in Sanofi and Schneider Electric SE offices in France employees enter after thermal cameras check their temperatures. Invisible lasers manage crowds at shopping malls and transport hubs in Spain and France, and some firms use infection-tracing lanyard devices.
As Europeans head back to work, they’re entering a world very different from the one they left. Workplaces from banks and offices to e-commerce warehouses, factories, sports clubs and airports are trying out or installing fever-testing thermal cameras, mask-detection systems and tracking software to prevent a resurgence of the coronavirus that has claimed more than 167,000 lives in the region.
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A Belgian deck hand and a captain wear a Romware Covid Radius bracelet at the Port of Antwerp. The virus has opened the doors to surveillance and monitoring technologies that many fear are here to stay. — AFP
A deckhand on a tugboat wears a Romware Covid Radius digital bracelet at the Port of Antwerp, Belgium. Europe’s second biggest port is utilising an electronic device aimed at helping people respect social distancing as the spread of the coronavirus eases and they return to work. Two teams of workers at the Belgian port of Antwerp will be wearing chunky plastic bracelets that vibrate and flash lights when they get too close to each other. — AP
Ship engineer Wim Giabeler, right, and deckhand Gerard Bakulikira, left, wear Romware Covid Radius digital bracelets as they work on deck of a tugboat in the Port of Antwerp, Belgium. The Romware Covid Radius is an extension of the Romware One bracelet, which will allow employees to resume work safely as the bracelet monitors physical distance and traces contacts. — AP
A deckhand demonstrates the use of a Romware COVID Radius digital bracelet, which flashes red to when someone is too close to him, as he pulls in the rope in on deck of a tugboat in the Port of Antwerp, Belgium. As Europeans head back to work, they’re entering a world very different from the one they left. The virus has opened the doors to surveillance and monitoring technologies that many fear are here to stay. — AP
Ship engineer Wim Giabeler wears a Romware COVID Radius digital bracelet as he moves on deck of a tugboat in the Port of Antwerp, Belgium. Two teams of workers at the Belgian port of Antwerp will be wearing chunky plastic bracelets that vibrate and flash lights when they get too close to each other. — AP
Deckhand Gerard Bakulikira wears a Romware COVID Radius digital bracelet, which flashes red when he is too close to someone else, as he walks on deck of a tugboat in the Port of Antwerp, Belgium. As Europeans head back to work, they’re entering a world very different from the one they left. The virus has opened the doors to surveillance and monitoring technologies that many fear are here to stay. — AP
Rombit CEO John Baekelmans poses in front of a tugboat prior to a demonstration of the Romware Covid Radius digital bracelet in the Port of Antwerp, Belgium. As Europeans head back to work, they’re entering a world very different from the one they left. The virus has opened the doors to surveillance and monitoring technologies that many fear are here to stay. — AP
An employee of Rombit holds the Romware COVID Radius bracelet at the Port of Antwerp, Belgium. The virus has opened the doors to surveillance and monitoring technologies that many fear are here to stay. — AP
A Belgian deck hand and a captain wear a Romware Covid Radius bracelet at the Port of Antwerp. The virus has opened the doors to surveillance and monitoring technologies that many fear are here to stay. — AFP
