New HoCo System Tracks Employees' Movements For COVID-19 Tracing

HOWARD COUNTY, MD — Three companies house at the Maryland Innovation Center in Columbia have collaborated to launch a new product called NOTIFY, a contact-tracing notification system that anonymously monitors users' movements throughout a facility to identify potential coronavirus exposures.

According to the Howard County Economic Development Authority, the system created by rfidCollect, Joget and Moxka Technologies operates within facilities recording possible worker transmissions and provides alerts to those who may have been exposed to infectious disease.

“NOTIFY gives companies an easy to set-up and operate system for alerting workers of the time, location and duration of interactions with coworkers who are subsequently identified as being potentially contagious,” rfidCollect’s Executive Vice President Tim Buckley said. “NOTIFY fills a need for practical workplace safety by providing real-time, actionable data directly to workers so they can assess their own level of exposure risk.”

NOFITY can be used in almost any facility where regular employee interaction occurs, including industries and organizations such as healthcare, government, defense, pharmaceutical, food processing, manufacturing, data center operations and corporate offices. The system works by using badges or wristbands that will be carried or worn by workers. Notify Locators are placed inside the facility that track where workers meet or interact a real-time dashboard provides alerts and notifications.