MANAGING THE RETURN Talking to the developers of a new system, V-Health Passport about the journey of development and how businesses can benefit
2020
will go down in history as a time when digital transformation was forced upon sectors which, in the past, may have been slow to adopt new technologies. Zoom and Microsoft Teams have become standard communication tools not just in business but also in how we engage with our family and friends during the enforced lockdown. In the run up to Covid-19, Ellanstone and Infinite Possibilities had been working closely together on a number of awardwinning digital technologies around engagement, compliance and incident management. It became clear that if these technologies worked in ‘concert’ they could form a very powerful solution. James Screen of Infinite Possibilities commented, “With many projects running behind schedule and a lot of the population at home not able to earn, the technologies which we have been working with over the years, with a few tweaks, could be adapted to help solve the problems of getting people back to work safely”. The team, through their new scheduled daily Zoom calls, set about trying to put the jigsaw together to come up with a technology solution to support the predicted need for mass testing in the construction sector. Brendon Kenny of Ellanstone and chair of BITA IOM commented “It became very apparent that with the combined skill sets
THE TEAM SET ABOUT TRYING TO COME UP WITH A TECHNOLOGY SOLUTION TO SUPPORT THE PREDICTED NEED FOR MASS TESTING IN THE CONSTRUCTION SECTOR.
and connections of Ellanstone and Infinite Possibilities that we should form a new company to take these solutions to market. This was always on the cards, but the Covid-19 crisis was the catalyst to accelerating this coming together and the new company was formed. We set about thinking of a company name which linked everything we were doing together and after settling on ‘safe’ as the common thread, looked into its meaning in other languages and came up with Tutum, Latin for safe”. The cornerstone to the solution is a V-Health Passport which
Brendon Kenny
TECHNOLOGY
manages the policies set by the CDM coordinator on site. Scanned at a safety compliant distance it can verify if the person is safe to go on site or not. The other technologies used alongside the V-Health Passport help with engagement and incident control to help protect employees on site. The Tutum team had the technology in hand and sought to look for a reliable testing partner which they found with the help of Paul Whitnell, President of BITA. BITA had re-evaluated its relevance as an organisation and did what it does best, i.e. connect ‘people who know people that help people’. Paul was instrumental in introducing Tutum Technologies to David Perrotton from Emico and Sam Poots from SOS Group who had been working on a testing solution for the construction industry. Peter Wright from Ellanstone commented “The technologies are not just for the current Covid-19 situation but are a long-term solution for organisations to embrace more efficient ways of working. Maintaining and managing compliance will lead to a more robust business in what is predicted to be challenging markets post Covid-19. We believe that collaboration is going to be vitally important for all industries to get through this, and the BITA Community is playing its part”. Tutum Technologies would welcome the opportunity to discuss and demonstrate these award-winning solutions to the BITA Community.
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