TECH DIGEST – You probably might not know that technology can check that putrid air and save you from the scourge of the Corona virus pandemic.

Yes, putrid air chokes, and Corona virus thrives on a stuffy wind pipe and hazy lungs.

However, a concerned tech outfit, IoTAfrica has invested on the information that can widen people’s knowledge about the link between polluted air and Covid19, even as it throws up tech solutions for environmental air pollution.

In a webinar it organized, themed Quality Air &Covid 19: How to improve productivity and safety using IoT” the tech firm raised a discussion on IoT air quality and space monitoring.

The webinar attracted three global industry experts who xrayed the theme from different dimensions.

They included Tom Lindblad, the Founder of Connected Finland; MaijaPatjas, the Head of International Relations, RapalOy; and Melanie Ayoola, the Executive Director of IoT Africa Limited and Tranter IT Infrastructure Services Limited.

The event, moderated by Wole Bamgboye, Communications Manager, IoT Africa Limited, and Tranter IT Infrastructure Services Limited, raised awareness about the importance of IoT Air quality and Space Monitoring using the Internet of Things (IoT) in the everyday lives of Nigerians.

After all discussions, the speakers prescribed smart space monitoring solution as the panacea for good and healthy environment with pure air that aids rich productivity.

Smart Space monitoring is part of a larger smart technologies monitoring ecosystem, which utilises IoT sensors, tags, and pressure pads to give business owners a detailed view of movement within their premises.

According to the experts, corporate, industrial, and manufacturing sectors, need the solution because air quality affects safety, productivity and health in a workplace.

Kicking off the debate, Melanie Ayoola noted that “It could all be less effective in providing a motivated and driven workforce, if the air, the basic natural resource we need to live, is not good enough to sustain the body’s engine”.

She discussed how the air affects productivity and warned against a situation where the air is working against the people in an environment.

Also, Tom Lindblad, in his paper: Seeing The Invisible: How Connected Inventions can help to Monitor and Provide Covid-Safe Indoor Quality Air Around You”, explained that Carbon Monoxide (CO2) levels rise when there is less fresh air, causing headaches, restlessness, drowsiness, and other symptoms.

Relating that to productivity, he said that increased levels have often been found to culminate in decreased productivity, increased sick leave, and the spread of infectious diseases.

He charged people to take it as a serious issue in the office, school, and at home.

However, Maija Patjas, in his own speech described how optimized workspaces can create a better work environment and lead to higher efficiency levels among company staff.

She spoke about how managing hybrid work is making it difficult to optimize space layouts. She highlighted how current working system is changing from an individual-based system to a social, collaborative use of space, with more focus on how employees feel about the environment, and how they can use a more flexible environment to be more productive.

She also explained that organisations that integrate smart space monitoring solution, will achieve improved productivity and collaboration, better satisfaction, better indoor comfort, reduced real estate costs, and energy savings.

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TECH DIGEST – How to keep track of assets has always been a challenge for Asset Management Industry. This is as knowing where things are at any given time can be critical to transforming business operations. It can reduce risk, save money, improve efficiency, and drive new service revenue.

For instance, containers keep missing all over the world and it usually takes months to find them in the cases where they are ever found.

However, technology experts are of the opinion that a combination of mobile computing, analytics, and cloud services, all of which are fuelled by the Internet of Things, IoT, is changing how delivery and asset management companies are conducting their operations.

Interestingly, experts say Asset tracking is one of the fastest-growing industrial IoT markets today.

It is estimated to worth $3.93 Billion by 2023.

Also, Delivery company DHL and tech giant Cisco estimated in 2015 that IoT technologies such as asset tracking solutions could have an impact of more than $1.9 trillion in the supply chain and logistics sector.

According to their estimate, there will be 267 billion IoT asset tracking devices deployed in the global industry by 2027.

All these were revealed at the Disrupting Asset Tracking webinar organised by Technology Company, IoT Africa Networks Ltd in conjunction with Connected Finland, recently.

The event was to shed light on the challenges facing the asset management industry.

The Executive Chairman of IoT Africa Networks Ltd, Lare Ayoola, said the difference between lost and found can be as little as 12 Bytes, with the deployment of IoT based solutions.

He said: “IoT Africa Networks Ltd in partnership with Sigfox enables one to observe the entire asset tracking network whether industrial, commercial, business or residential in a convenient and budget-friendly manner.

“You might not be able to rely on electricity in Nigeria, but you can rely on Sigfox. This is because the Sigfox devices can be powered without electricity. Their battery life can last for more than four years on a single charge,” Ayoola said.

He noted that IoT on the supply chain management can transform inventory, logistics, manufacturing, distribution, construction, insurance, security companies, and more.

Also, Founder, Connected Finland, Tom Lindblad, said the IoT network, that Sigfox and IoT Africa provide, is enabling them to track things they never could have before. He said IoT connectivity are tracking assets along the supply chain and receiving alerts on anomalies such as unauthorized trailer detachments, virtually fence and manage herds, intercontinental sea-freight tracking, recovery of stolen vehicles, monitor the logistic supply chain, track industrial assets, enable real-time tracking of consumer’s luggage worldwide.

Lindblad said: “The IoT Africa Networks, Sigfox, Tranter IT, and Connected Finland partnerships are strategic and critical for development in Nigeria. The major drive for IoT in Nigeria is for companies and cities to connect everything and stay in control of their assets and business operations.”

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