The NBA and Boston Celtics face an even bigger challenge than they did in the Disney restart bubble with keeping players, staff and their local communities safe with stringent anti- COVID-19 protocols and practices, and it seems that Boston’s home arena has found another tool to use to that end.
Vancouver, British Columbia-based firm TraceSafe has announced via press release that they have been selected by TD Garden to provide a unique bluetooth wearable device. It will assist arena employees monitor their health by letting them know if they’ve been exposed to anyone returning a positive test for the virus behind the pandemic.
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TraceSafe — who refers to itself as a “global leader wearable safety tech including contact tracing and self-quarantine management” — relates up to 500 employees working at the arena will wear the special wristbands, designed to help limit the spread of the virus through technology-assisted contact tracing.
“We could not be more excited to announce this partnership with TD Garden. TD Garden is an iconic venue and an institution in the city of Boston,” shared TraceSafe CEO Wayne Lloyd in the release. “This is yet another example of a major sports and event venue placing their trust in the TraceSafe suite of contact tracing and quarantine management solutions.”
TraceSafe uses low-power bluetooth beacons to help track the movements of employees throughout their workday with existing experience helping governments execute critical quarantining strategies via their technology.
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As the NBA and Celtics work to keep all involved as safe as possible on the job while we wait for a widely-available vaccine to help bring back fans to stadiums, it seems that Delaware North — the company which owns TD Garden — has identified a valuable partner in that fight.
Contact tracing has long been a critical tool used to fight epidemics.
So, to see the organization in charge of Boston’s home base adopt bleeding-edge technology to improve it only bodes well for what remains the season’s most important challenge — keeping everyone well.
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