How Will You Pay for Temperature Screening Systems?

As businesses, schools, facilities, and organizations of all types look to resume operations or phase them back to normal, they have been faced with a double whammy: a significant drop in revenues and an increase in cost for mitigation measures to ensure the safety of everyone.

The good news is that the federal government stimulus package has components in it that may help.  The CARES Act (Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security) provided a massive package of aid to individuals, businesses, and state and local governments. And among parts of that aid were important provisions to help fund technology solutions for COVID-19 preparedness, prevention, and response.

We all hope that both a vaccine and treatment are developed quickly to take the severe threat aspect out of this pandemic. The reality, however, is that it will take some time for those answers to come to fruition. In the meantime, we can invest in available solutions that can help return us to normal life and economic activities in Austin and Texas while staying safe. And there are technologies like temperature screening systems that can help accomplish that, with funding assistance from the Federal government to expedite it.

Keep reading below for a summary of technology solutions and funding opportunities for implementing them.

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Airports

Everyone knows that incredible impact has had on travel and especially air travel. In Austin, March 2020 saw a 50% drop in passengers through Austin-Bergstrom airport. The CARES Act set aside $10 billion for commercial and general aviation airports to respond to the pandemic and ensure a safe travel experience.

Among the technologies available for funding are:

• Video Security and Analytics
  • Cameras, facemask detection, access control, temperature screening
• Radio Communications
  • Radio alerts, public and private broadband communication
• Operational Management Software
  • Situational awareness, records management and incident tracking.

Critical areas for COVID-19 mitigation implementation like access control, temperature screening, and facemask detection all need to integrate these technologies. The CARES Act promises simplified application processes and expedited awards to speed implementation.  

Healthcare

Since healthcare bears the single biggest impact of the pandemic, The CARES Act allocated $175 billion for a wide variety of needs to speed testing, treatment, and infrastructure.

Among the technologies available for funding in healthcare:

• Video Security and Analytics
  • Scalable temperature and facemask screening solutions for both health workers and patients
  • Monitoring solutions for health professionals to remotely monitor and communicate with patients in quarantine, waiting, and testing areas
• Access Control
  • Track ingress and egress and secure areas to separate potentially infected people from healthy ones
• Communications
  • Rapidly communicate with staff across various platforms to quickly handle emergency and security situations.

Education

The closing of schools across the country presented dilemmas with parents suddenly having kids at home, to the enormous challenge of how to continue education at home, and the unfortunate furloughing of thousands of ancillary staff that help maintain physical school facilities. Texas schools at all levels are grappling with how to implement procedures to assure safety when classes resume in late summer. The CARES Act allocated $30.75 billion under three grant programs to stabilize education.

Schools should consider investing in the following solutions with available funding:

• Detect who is coming into the school
  • Video monitoring for parking areas, entries, hallways
  • Temperature screening for staff and students
  • Facemask detection and enforcement
  • Access control for staff
    • Tracing locations for staff known to have been exposed
  • Communications
    • Rapid response to incidents, such as potential exposure to COVID-19
    • Mass Notification - mobilize response with coordinated communication across various platforms, making it easier to manage incidents and emergencies.

ASAP Security Services is ready to help you implement the health safeguards you need for continued operations with the latest technology solutions. To learn more, set up a consultation with our team by calling (877) 418-ASAP, filling out our contact form, or starting a live chat with us below. We look forward to working with you!