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NEW YORK, Jan. 22, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Kontakt.io, the leader in indoor IoT location services, today announced the launch of Portal Beam, a 9-in-1 cloud-enabled sensor platform quantifying rooms and delivering building insights in real-time. Portal Beam uses nine different sensors: thermal camera for occupancy and people counting, temperature, humidity, air quality, light, smoke detection, infrared beaconing, RSSI fingerprinting, and iBeacon. The Portal Beam comes with an 8-core CPU with Neural Network architecture and Bluetooth 5.0 readiness. Out of the box, it is compatible and seamlessly integrates with any BLE-gateway and the 1-click, self-onboarding workflows of the Kio Cloud. The Kio Cloud and Portal Beam are opening a new era of IoT devices to quantify buildings, converging Indoor Location, Environmental Monitoring and Occupancy Analytics.
What started as an idea for a simple social distancing alert system developed by an Australian production company to help restart events in the wake of a global pandemic has evolved into a dynamic, automated safety device being adopted by multiple industries navigating the challenges of Covid-19.
“Harry the hirer was looking for something to try and help the events industry get back up on its feet as quickly as possible,” says Brad Johnson, national sales manager for Smart Badge, a subsidiary of Australian events industry heavyweight Harry the hirer.
“Our business went from 1,000 staff down to about 50 in about the space of a week, so we were obviously very motivated to find something that would get the events industry as a whole back.