Aruba Expands Roster of Easy-to-Deploy Workplace Safety Solutions
February 18 2021 - 8:00AM
Business Wire
Integrated Solutions Leverage Existing Edge and
IoT Infrastructure to Bring Employees Back to Work Safely
Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company (NYSE: HPE), today
announced an expanded set of integrated, easy-to-deploy Edge and
IoT solutions designed to enable organizations to bring employees
back to physical workplaces safely. Developed using Aruba Wi-Fi
access points (AP’s), EnOcean 800/900MHz radios that insert into
the AP’s, and compatible IoT devices from Aruba Technology
Partners, these solutions monitor hoteling spaces, room occupancy,
air quality, and cleaning/disinfection scheduling. By operating on
customers’ existing Aruba infrastructure and leveraging cloud-based
applications, the solutions can be rapidly deployed and eliminate
the need for expensive IoT overlay networks.
As the world continues to adapt to new business realities
brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic, organizations are
considering a myriad of return-to-work scenarios, including
re-opening offices and safely bringing employees back in-person.
Since IT infrastructure spans across the entire enterprise, it’s
the ideal platform on which to build cross-organizational systems
and processes encompassing social distancing, contact tracing,
infection control, and space management. Flexible, cloud-native
applications targeting these use cases can be quickly spun up – at
minimal cost – as return-to-work initiatives are rolled out.
Aruba ESP (Edge Services Platform) provides the unified, secure,
cloud-native network infrastructure that underpins EnOcean’s
integration with Aruba. Plugging an EnOcean 800/900MHz USB adapter
into a compatible Aruba AP enables communication with wireless IoT
air quality monitors, presence detectors, light level sensors, and
other devices that use EnOcean-developed protocols, wireless
radios, and energy harvesting power sources. IoT data is streamed
from the AP to the target return-to-work application over secure
tunnels. Aruba ESP applies consistent security policies and
provides unified management from a single point of control.
Customers have the freedom to implement return-to-work solutions at
any time, in both new and existing deployments, without ripping and
replacing IT infrastructure.
Return-to-work applications and technology partners include:
- Hoteling space management: Wireless sensors are ideal
for managing the availability, occupancy, air quality, and cleaning
requirements of hoteling spaces. DEUTA Controls’ EnoPuck visually
identifies if a space is reserved, occupied, available, or vacated,
while simultaneously monitoring air quality and light levels.
Departure of an occupant can automatically trigger a request for
cleaning and disinfection.
- Occupancy management: To ensure compliance with social
distancing and sanitation protocols, IAconnects’ Mobius Flow
application manages people-counter and occupancy sensors to monitor
the status of communal areas, e.g., washrooms, kitchens, and
meeting areas. A “cleaning threshold” feature alerts maintenance
when an area requires attention.
- Smart restroom: The smart restroom solution from Nanjing
Winshine checks traffic flow and occupancy of restrooms in
real-time. Employees are alerted when the restrooms are
unavailable, and the application can automatically generate work
orders for cleaning and disinfection services.
- Demand-oriented ventilation: Typically used in
classrooms, public buildings and offices, Thermokon’s CO2 sensor
solution contributes to demand-oriented ventilation to reduce the
risk of infection. The solution currently measures CO2 within a
particular area and activates the ventilation system to meet
defined air quality standards. Temperature, relative humidity, and
volatile organic compound (VOC) sensing will be available later
this year.
- Building management: The building management application
from Titanium Intelligent Solutions manages lighting, energy, and
space efficiency during shelter-in-place mandates and when curfews
are enforced. Building functions are securely and remotely
controlled via a simple, web-based application.
“The simplest, most automated and cost-effective way to
implement return-to-work safety initiatives is by deploying
data-driven smart solutions on top of existing IT infrastructure,”
said Michael Tennefoss, vice president of IoT and Strategic
Partnerships at Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company.
“Because of their ubiquitous deployment throughout enterprises, in
locations that are ideal for wireless sensor communications, Aruba
AP’s are ideal on-ramps for return-to-work IoT devices. As
monitoring and safety requirements change over time, additional IoT
devices can be added by tapping into the EnOcean Alliance, a vast
ecosystem of vendors that have developed interoperable,
self-powered wireless sensor solutions. Armed with this technology,
organizations can re-open with confidence today using a
future-proof platform that is ready for what lies ahead.”
Additional Resources:
- Explore Aruba solutions for the Hybrid Workplace
About Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company
Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company, is the global
leader in secure, intelligent edge-to-cloud networking solutions
that use AI to automate the network, while harnessing data to drive
powerful business outcomes. With Aruba ESP (Edge Services Platform)
and as-a-service options, Aruba takes a cloud-native approach to
helping customers meet their connectivity, security, and financial
requirements across campus, branch, data center, and remote worker
environments, covering all aspects of wired, wireless LAN, and wide
area networking (WAN).
To learn more, visit Aruba at www.arubanetworks.com. For
real-time news updates, follow Aruba on Twitter and Facebook, and
for the latest technical discussions on mobility and Aruba
products, visit the Airheads Community at
community.arubanetworks.com.
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