DuPont Sustainable Solutions (DSS) has announced a partnership with Bleenco GmbH, a Munich-based safety technology company. Through this partnership, DSS and Bleenco will work together to develop advanced, scalable, AI-powered solutions to better protect workers from operational risks and COVID-19.
“We are seeing industrial companies embrace new safety technologies within their operating environments, and, in doing so, they are uncovering opportunities to identify individual risks or risky behaviours and transform this into actionable data”, says Alexey Lesin, Digital Practice Leader for DuPont Sustainable Solutions. “This has provided companies with unprecedented opportunities to improve the safety of workers, as well as operational workflows by harnessing the insights drawn from this data. The technologies and associated algorithms developed by Bleenco are particularly promising in this regard, especially in light of the COVID-19 pandemic.”
“Our technologies enable off-the-shelf cameras with advanced, customisable safety automation solutions,” says Irman Abdic, CEO of Bleenco GmbH. “This allows operations leaders to quantify and analyse human behaviour, as well as monitor compliance without compromising privacy. Such insights can help leaders to identify safety risks in real time, and also to uncover opportunities to prevent future incidents.”
“Additionally, this technology is currently being deployed to help companies to detect a key symptom of COVID-19: body temperature,” continues Abdic. “The body scan is fully automated and only takes one second, allowing companies of all industries to limit potential exposure of their front-line workers to the virus.”
The partnership agreement between DuPont Sustainable Solutions and Bleenco allows companies to customise, deploy and scale-up the technologies in a quick, sustainable manner.
“The combination of this innovative Bleenco technology, with the experience of DuPont Sustainable Solutions in both behavioural safety and large-scale technology deployment will help companies to keep their employees safe and healthy,” says Lesin. “The pilot results were inspiring and have shown that this partnership has the ability to help industrial companies to make a genuine breakthrough in their safety performance.”
