Greet Health: Leveraging 3 Emerging Technologies to Make Your Events Safer

Just a year ago, we could take in-person conferences and events for granted. Visiting a new expo for cutting-edge industry insight had a jet-setting glamor (even if we went only to the nearest city). But that was in February 2020. Today, we’ve made an about-face because of the risks of COVID-19 But what if a trio of technologies made it possible for us to travel and network like we once did?

You might’ve guessed where we’re going — three emerging technologies to support in-person events. We call it Greet Health, a hardware-software solution created by Reese Innovation Lab and Lenovo to help you greet 2021 with safer, healthier events.

Greet Health joins artificial intelligence, crowd-flow management and unique user experience to mitigate risk for attendees of in-person conferences. Its safeguards occur three times: before the attendees travel, once they’ve arrived at the event and once they prepare to leave again. Greet Health isn’t quite a suit of armor, but it’s the next best thing for large events that need to connect people safely.

How Greet Health Works

Think of Greet Health as a meal that combines periodic drinks with two main courses. The periodic drinks are the ShowPass web system, which allows users to receive mailed COVID-19 tests, take them, coordinate them with a testing center, and receive rapid results.

The Health Greeter Kiosks in action. Image courtesy of Claire Revere.

The first main course is a team of Health Greeter Kiosks that greet visitors at the event’s physical location and, through AI, determines whether guests are wearing masks and maintaining physical distance. The second main course, presented alongside the kiosks, is the FastPass system that manages crowd flow in the event’s physical space. This website gives guests real-time messages saying which rooms are available, when they open and which doors guests should use. Managing crowd-flow carefully prevents guests from congregating in large and unsafe groups.

For the TLDR crowd: the Health Greeter Kiosks and FastPass secure the in-person gathering, while ShowPass prepares the attendees as they prepare to attend and leave the event.

Here’s the step-by-step process:

As you can see, the periodic use of ShowPass ensures your good health before you travel or arrive at your event. The web of its protection joins the on-site measures that the Health Greeter Kiosks and FastPass bring to your actual event.

If you receive a positive COVID-19 test through ShowPass, your trip is necessarily a short one.

But if, after all this explanation, you feel unconvinced that Greet Health could truly help your organization, we have more good news: this system has already pulled off a successful test run at the University of North Carolina.

A Health Greeter Kiosk at UNC. Image courtesy of Claire Revere.

However, you’ll have to check back in to read UNC’s story on Wednesday, Feb. 24. In the meantime, why not learn more about Greet Health? Contact our team and learn how your organization can greet 2021 with healthier, safer events.