AI driven Social Distancing Solutions for public spaces from Softsquare

Softsquare
2 min readSep 14, 2020

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Prevention is better than cure and Social Distancing plays an important part for preventing the spread of COVID-19. It’s indeed imperative to make sure not only you but your colleagues, boss, friends, classmates, teachers, the random person in the park bench near you is following social distancing. But how many follow Social Distancing to the letter? This indeed brings us to the address the crux of the problem.

Enforcing Social Distancing until it becomes second nature. But how?

The answer is simple. Tracking whether people are following social distancing with simple and effective AI solutions using Salesforce Einstein Vision and Salesforce Einstein Analytics coupled with Salesforce Work.com.

What is Salesforce Einstein Vision and Salesforce Einstein Analytics?

Salesforce Einstein Vision is an AI driven image recognition, image classification software with a variety of applications. It’s also used in Natural Language Processing and has a future in Optical Character Recognition.

Salesforce Einstein Analytics is a state of the art technology which is adept in crunching data and delivering meaningful insights

How Can we identify whether a person is following Social Distancing?

With a combination of other social distancing parameters, AI solutions and Salesforce Work.com a simple three step solution is formulated.

  • The CCTV footage captured in building entrances, malls and other crowded spaces is taken.
  • People are demarcated using bounding boxes and their distance is calculated.
  • These data are loaded into Salesforce Work.com package in the contact tracing module.

The Salesforce Work.com contact tracing package helps in identifying potential contacts with a COVID positive patient and helps in visually representing the same using a contact tracing graph. The tracked data will reduce human errors while contact tracing and assigning triage. Thus, an automated solution will ensure better prevention during this pandemic.

It will help CEOs, Government bodies in taking corrective actions to curb these acts in the long run thereby effectively enforcing Social Distancing.

We understand you have questions. Why don’t you join us for our Webinar “AI driven Social Distancing with Salesforce Work.com” on Sep 17, 2 PM ET. In this Webinar, you will learn to

  • Salesforce Einstein & AI to identify distance between two people to comply with social distancing protocols in public places
  • Trigger notifications to the public health officer in case of social distancing violations.
  • Social Gathering and Crowd Detection visualized using Einstein Analytics Heat Maps

Register on the link below.

Register: https://bit.ly/3idRGK3

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Softsquare

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