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Design and Technology for Measuring Social Distancing and Behaviour: The Integrated Solution by Pininfarina and Blimp
TURIN, Italy, June 8, 2020/PRNewswire-AsiaNet/--

Design and technology at the service of preventive healthcare. Pininfarina, a 
benchmark for industrial design and mobility, now commits to the search for 
integrated, ready-to-use solutions for the post-Covid-19 era, entering into a 
strategic partnership with Blimp, a start-up specialising in artificial 
intelligence and part of e-Novia, the Milan-based 'Enterprises Factory'. 

Together, Pininfarina and Blimp offer a solution that integrates physical and 
digital design, technology and services to analyse people flows and so make it 
possible to verify and monitor the application of anti-Covid-19 containment 
measures in all indoor and outdoor settings: from public transport to airports 
and stations, from offices to production plants, shops and large-scale 
retailers.  

Pininfarina will dress Blimp technology integrating into its architectural and 
industrial design proposals the Beat-19 solution developed by the Milan 
company. In addition, the Pininfarina Experience Design team will define the 
experience within public transport vehicles and spaces as well as interfaces 
dedicated to company personnel and end users. Blimp will be at Pininfarina's 
side with its service offering enabled by hardware, sensor and platform 
technologies.  

"Pininfarina shares Blimp's vision regarding the health situation today and 
future developments in mobility sectors. Together we can offer a solution that 
perfectly meets the needs of the 'New Normal': designing new spaces 
(Architecture, Transportation, Retail) and equipping them with digital 
measuring systems," - Pininfarina CEO Silvio Angori.

"Our partnership with Pininfarina is an extraordinary union between Italian 
design and technology. An important step towards the creation of sustainable 
and intelligent urban environments, permeated by micro-services enabled by AI 
technologies and dedicated to improving well-being and quality of life," - 
Blimp founder Alex Buzzetti.

Beat-19 is a solution able to monitor the flow of people - with full respect 
for privacy - and ensure that measures to contain the spread of the virus are 
applied. Beat-19 makes it possible in real time to detect excessive groups of 
people in public spaces and induce them to disperse by way of acoustic signals; 
monitor queues of people outside a building or at a bus stop; measure body 
temperature and the use of face masks; record the application of security 
measures, especially social distancing. The technology consists of a sensor for 
the detection of data and a cloud platform so that the data can be viewed and 
notifications of critical situations managed. 

Photo - https://mma.prnewswire.com/media/1177885/Pininfarina_Blimp_Excem.jpg  

Source: Pininfarina
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