#monitoring

Isle Systems Swift Blog - Incidents and Isolation for Solitary Workers

We recap on a recent series of posts about protecting against incidents and isolation in the workplace.

Protecting Your Lone Workers - 7 Things to Think About

This post highlights 7 key areas to focus on when it comes to protecting your lone workers.

How to Remove the Impact of Manual Processes for Lone Worker Protection

In a previous post we covered 5 potential impacts of adopting manual processes to protecting your lone workers. These were: the human element leading to broken processes, non-compliance and increased risk; the time factor leading to life-threatening delays; reputational and recruitment threats to your business; increased costs from layering on the security overhead; decreases in productivity and ultimately profitability. In this post we look at how to remove these impacts wit

Isle Systems Swift Blog - Case Studies in Monitoring, Alerting and Communications

Here’s the short hand on 4 recent Isle Systems case studies. 4 different situations, 4 different industries. Protecting dispersed road crews and depots with one system - Looking for proactive protection for workers in high-risk occupations - 70 users and 1 centralised system for monitoring, alerting and communications - Protected, compliant lone worker operations now drive major productivity gains Read the full blog post here. Consolidating several alarm and alert systems int

One combined device for complete lone worker and non-lone worker monitoring, alerting and communicat

How one company started with a lone worker protection requirement and ended up improving its whole plant.

Lone Worker Protection - Outsource or Own?

This post explores the two possible courses of action for lone worker monitoring, alerting and communications: outsource or own.

The Trouble with Traditional Monitoring and Alerting Systems

Commercial solutions for monitoring, alerting and communications systems focus on lone workers, fire & intruder alarms and machinery. Many of these solutions were not originally designed for lone worker operations. Their design and implementation requires a resource-intensive approach, which in many ways hasn't changed much since the days of an actual switchboard operator connecting your calls. In this post we explore the three main problems with this traditional approach and

Lifecycle of Emergency Events

In this post we look at the lifecycle of an emergency event and how you can manage all such events comfortably

2018 Predictions - Trends in Lone Worker Monitoring, Alerting and Communications

In this post we take a look at emerging trends for lone worker protection and place six experienced bets on what the next 12 months holds. 1) Falling Lone Worker Hardware costs Let’s start with a couple of easy ones first. Continual advances in technology have been driving down the costs of hardware. For example, where you used to need very deep pockets for indoor positioning beacons, each requiring its own power source, now devices are a fraction of that cost and will run