Atos AntiCOVID

If till "a coronavirus era" experts still argued on advantages and shortcomings of wireless solutions, then the present pandemic put the end to these disputes: use of contactless technologies considerably increases chances to save health, both employees, and the business. A question only in how to derive the maximum benefit from them for the organization and the easiest way to integrate them into the existing IT infrastructure.

Analysts Ernst&Young note that 41% of employers began to accelerate automation of business in connection with a pandemic of a coronavirus and the worsening economic situation. At the same time security and health of employees became the first step in ensuring business continuity. Thus, the good old rule that real problems of business, but not starry-eyed reasonings on theoretical benefits from application of IT force to be engaged in informatization of business, first of all, works again. There was even a joke on this subject – three answer options on a question who directs in your company digital transformation: CEO, CTO or COVID-19?

The Atos company presented the "anti-virus" solution HSS AntiCOVID at the Russian market.

It is the complex of solutions allowing customers to struggle with risks of infection with a coronavirus without stopping of primary activity of the organization, - Roman Gots, the director of the department of Big Data and security of Atos in the Russian Federation explains a business idea essence.

However, the HSS of AntiCOVID is not a separate specialized IT complex, and more likely approach to creation of intelligent systems which is based on three bases: peripheral calculations, contactless technologies, intellectual analytics, including, Big Data. At the same time algorithms of intellectual analytics are under construction around two key aspects: isolation of the employees contacting with caught (this mandatory requirement), and existence of the individual protection equipment (IPE) for employees who as obliges contact to many people (the insistent recommendation).

Non-compliance with mandatory requirements, in addition to personnel diseases, is punished by serious penalties. Thus, counteraction to a coronavirus appears one of strategy elements – compliances to requirements of regulators.

Peripheral calculations against COVID-19

The era of peripheral calculations only comes. Its character – emergence of a set of sensors (for example, video cameras in trading floors of shops, orientation sensors in space and technical condition on vehicles, etc.) and also computing resources which process large volumes of the data generated by sensors. These resources, according to the main principle of peripheral calculations, physically are located in the same place where also sensors.

In this sense it is possible to say that the world passes to a post-cloud era, - Roman Gots notices.

Source: Alliedmarketresearch.com, February, 2020.

As well as any new market in a phase of active growth, the market of peripheral calculations shows two-digit digits of growth – on a third every year, by sanalitikov Alliedmarketresearch.com estimates. The amount of 2.9 bln. dollars in 2019 includes the cost of the sold "iron", software and also services.

The solutions AntiCOVID of Atos– it is the hardware and software system (HSS) which includes software of intellectual data processing received from sensors and also server BullSequana Edge, implementing algorithms peripheral calculations.

Roman Gots remembers the large projects executed for the Russian customers in whom outstanding parameters, in particular, SAP the solution BW based on DBMS SAP HANA, capable to process over 25 TB of data (the project for "M of Video Eldorado), the single system billing of one of the largest telecom operators working on 11 Bullion S16 servers and also the first-ever installation of the server from 16 processors Cascade Lake based on DBMS were reached PostgreSQL.

We can apply all accumulated unique experience of Atos of Russia to AntiCovid-projects of any scale, - he says.

The HSS of AntiCOVID includes four basic solutions, each of which is focused on different stages of interaction of the company with an infection.

• Contactless ACS: exclude the centers of spread of infections.
• Identification of masks: control observance of rules of use of individual protection equipment.
• "Black lists": limit access to employees on a quarantine and reveal a circle of their contacts. Not all department or change but only those who really contacted to the infected employee will go to a quarantine.
• Detection of accumulation of people and observance of a social distance: do not allow spread of an infection.

Contactless ACS

The contactless solution of access control to the premises pursues a main goal – lack of a uniform point of transmission of infection.

In the conditions of a pandemic to enter into office or any other building which visits a large number of people, it is necessary to refuse any contacts of the person with readers.

It is not necessary to put a finger or the map admission anywhere, - Roman Gots explains. - The person just passes by the screen, his face will be recognized, doors automatically open, it passes further. Nobody touches anything. Everything occurs easily, simply, quickly and safely.

The corresponding HSS of AntiCOVID 01 is a ready-made solution which includes 8" the screen and the server with the set software. At the same time the new complex is capable to be integrated from the existing ACS, in particular, to load from it all data of employees, including photos. Software of face recognition supports the liveness mode, i.e. is able to distinguish the person of the living person from the photo, video of record and other attempts of deception of a computer system.

Key features of the contactless anti-virus ACS of Atos company

"Black list": the first circle of contacts

Traditional video surveillance systems were created for problems of observation and visual detection of the situations requiring intervention. They well cope with these tasks, however time of a pandemic puts new: the companies it becomes vital to identify those employees who contacted to infected (so-called, N+1 circle of contacts).

Video analytics algorithms are applied to the solution of this task. Their "mind" allows to estimate, in particular, as the contact – long continued less than a minute, more than a minute or more than 5 minutes (specific conditions are set by the system administrator). And also a system "understands" that the employee came into contact, for example, talked face to face to the infected person, but did not stand nearby, having turned a back.

The employees identified thus join in "black list", and all internal systems connected with this complex of video analytics will create the corresponding warnings to the necessary services and also to close to this employee access to company premises, - Roman Gots tells.

And, all notifications and notifications happen in real time, Roman adds.

Thus, access to the territory not only the sick employee, but also to all who contacted to it within two weeks before detection of COVID-19 disease at it is closed.

Video surveillance of the future: the operator sees not only the person on territories, but also all his contacts

The HSS of AntiCOVID 02 which implements the described task is connected to any current cybersecurity equipment installed in the company and also easily scaled.

And, scaling is possible on all geographically distributed organization: on all cameras on all objects it is possible to look where there were contacts for the last two weeks. And all this becomes a one click of the button in real time, - Roman Gots emphasizes.

It is important that the solutions HSS AntiCOVID meet the requirements Russian to laws on personal data as the equipment is in the customer's perimeter, and the equipment belongs to the customer of a system.

Recognition of individual protection equipment

The HSS of AntiCOVID 03 will recognize existence or absence on a body of the employee of SIZ, and even if the person is in crowd of other people. For example, if on the territory of this or that organization where it is required to cover the face with a mask, the person without mask enters, the message about it in real time arrives to the necessary employees.

Such solution will be useful, for example, for medical institutions: observance of requirements to carrying SIZ by medical personnel will be controlled, in particular.

Determination of accumulation of people

The HSS of AntiCOVID 04 is capable to analyze queues in public places and other accumulations of people. The HSS originates a special record if detects accumulation of people. Besides, he is able to calculate distance between people and will give an alarm if finds out that people the distance separates less than 1 m or 1.5 m (the specific indicator can be configured by the system administrator).

In addition software can estimate the number of people at queues and also waiting time in queue.

The smart system of video analytics of Atos AntiCOVID 04 will define where the distance between people in queue is less than maximum permissible value

AntiCOVID HSS with additional functionality

The solution for control of accumulation of people includes wide functionality. For example, it is able to detect these or those objects or situations, for example, naked flame or smoke. It gives the chance to use AntiCOVID HSS in different specific situations, and at times even to replace the person – the employee.

For example, in TESCO gas Station network at 116 stations implementation of a HSS of AntiCOVID 04 which can replace the sick employee who is responsible for fire safety is executed.

The solution includes the video camera which is already used on an object. The smart algorithm monitors findings of people in workplaces, conducts monitoring of fire hazard and generates in real time an alarm at signs of ignition.

In TESCO gas Station network the AntiCOVID system can replace the sick employee

System architecture of a HSS of AntiCOVID

All options of a HSS represent turnkey ready-made solutions which are created based on uniform system architecture. This approach guarantees that deployment of this or that solution requires the minimum quantity of time.

System architecture of a HSS of AntiCOVID

Especially for industrial applications with special requirements after a heat - and moisture securities of Atos together with the partner, Rittal company, developed special server racks of the small size in which servers of peripheral calculations BullSequana Edge are placed.

Edge DC is servers of peripheral calculations for industrial productions

The anti-virus specifics are for a long time

Anti-virus approach is, in fact, a method of business continuity of the organization now and further, - he emphasizes.

In line with such premises experts of Atos suggest to study attentively information on the special website with promo-rollers according to the solutions Atos AntiCOVID www.edge.how and also not to forget that the pandemic of COVID-19 is considered force majeure circumstance and is as appropriate considered in purchases according to 44-FZ and 223-FZ. Though, of course, it is better that there was no need to use such circumstances. And let all achievements of modern video analytics will secure our life, including, against a pandemic.