For example, Samsung’s latest model the Jet Bot Combo uses artificial intelligence to categorise its environment. It maps out the area around it and suggests ‘no-go zones’ such as the bathroom, the veranda or the entrance to avoid situations where it might become trapped in a corner - or end up under a hedge outside.
And despite a few blips, technology in cleaning results in time savings and efficiency gains while also producing higher standards, offsetting staff shortages, taking the heft out of onerous tasks and ensuring that no job is left undone.
Essity’s own digital solution - Tork Vision Cleaning – offers all these advantages because it enables cleaners to monitor washrooms remotely. They can check via a smartphone or tablet when a facility is likely to need a service or when one of the dispensers is running empty. And this removes the need for them to make multiple journeys to the facility, saving time and cutting down on costs.
This type of data-driven cleaning can reduce the number of cleaning hours by at least 20% and eliminate an average of 24% of rounds. Using the system ensures that dispensers are full and ready to use around 99% of the time.
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Meanwhile, technology is also proving to be highly useful in the form of online training, allowing staff to gen up on cleaning protocols from their own connected devices. For example, Essity’s Tork Interactive Clean Hospital Training - an interactive training and support package – takes healthcare cleaners and facility managers through various real-world cleaning scenarios in an engaging way.
The training takes place in a virtual hospital and incorporates modules on daily cleaning in occupied patient rooms plus discharge cleaning protocols.
Technology is creating an ever-increasing range of possibilities for the cleaning and hygiene sector and is poised to expand our horizons beyond anything we could possibly imagine. ‘Blips’ will still occur and manufacturers will no doubt step up to address them. But the technology will only improve as the relationship between humans and machines progresses and our understanding of what smart systems can deliver continues to grow.
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