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November 4, 2020

Temperature Screening Hospitality Guidelines for Safer Stays

The coronavirus outbreak has and continues to reshape when people leave their homes. Canceled vacations and closed businesses are costing over $46 billion in room revenue. Projections place overall losses at 50% for 2020. This also impacts a reported 4.8 million hospitality workers that are without work.

In the midst of these devastating statistics, the hospitality industry has proven necessary. Even with numbers down, people continue to need or want to go and stay places. It is then up to our hotels, resorts, and other shared living spaces to reduce biorisk in hospitality. With proper sanitization and tools, the industry can provide a safer destination for guests and staff. Body temperature checks with thermal cameras can help slow the spread at the door. To get you started, here are some of the top protocols for lodging and hotel safety.

Protect your hotel staff and guests with a reopening protocol in place

The CDC’s guidance for commercial lodging starts with staff education. Employers should create and share COVID-19 operating and safety policies with staff. Then a designated point of contact for employee support is imperative. Hotels should assess all lodging facilities paying special attention to communal areas. This can help identify places in which infection is most likely to spread. This includes areas such as dining rooms, lobbies, bedrooms, and laundry rooms. Management should then implement a combination of the following measures for staff and guest safety:

Hotel changes for staff safety

  • Arrange staff workstations to be six feet apart and non-facing other employees.
  • Install barriers or arrange payment centers to allow for distancing between staff and guests.
  • Decrease usage of high-touch items such as card readers. Instead use online services for check-ins, payments, menus, and more.
  • Monitor temperatures of guests at check-in infrared kiosks.
  • Encourage employees to stay home when sick, and write clear protocols for coming back to work safely.

Disinfection protocols for improving guest safety

  • Dispose of any single-use items left in rooms.
  • Sanitize surfaces with solutions approved for COVID-19 operations.
  • Increase the cleaning of frequently touched areas. Provide staff with wipes for cleaning after every guest interaction.
  • Consider implementing a lodging temperature check for all employees.
  • Take extra precautions when cleaning linens. Wear gloves, do not shake, and dry on the highest heat setting.
  • Create a plan for cleaning rooms of guests confirmed to be sick. No one should enter the room for at least 24 hours after the guest leaves.

How can hospitality temperature screening improve hotel safety?

The CDC’s lodging and accommodations guidelines state that people should stay home when sick. Temperature screening in hotels helps identify individuals with elevated temperatures. Body temperature checks are compatible with entrances, restaurants, lobbies, and more. With the ICI Biorisk Management Platform, hotels can help limit contamination and corporate liability in hospitality. This also shows staff and resort visitors that their health is your utmost concern.

What are my options for body temperature checks?

Hospitality temperature screening tools for hotel safety provide top speed, ease, and accuracy. Keep your employees safe with contactless body temperature checks from a safe distance. We offer a variety of infrared camera systems to fit every hotel, resort, and lodging facility. No matter the size, the volume, or the number of entrances, temperature screening for guests and staff is customizable. Centralized monitoring of all cameras ensures seamless integration within any existing security systems. With our reliable enterprise services, you can confidently provide guests with the highest level of hotel safety.

Attended temperature screening for guests

ICI’s attended systems are ideal for high traffic areas like hotel lobbies and apartment front offices. When guests arrive, infrared cameras quickly sense elevated skin temperature. An operator controls flow and monitors results on a separate screen. Red light/green light and audible alerts allow for easy identification. Keep things moving with fast and accurate attended hospitality temperature screening systems.

Self-Service workplace entrance screening

Self-service kiosks are ideal for slow-to-moderate traffic locations like resorts or employee entrances. Resort visitors and staff members follow prompts on a screen to have their temperatures checked. Results and identification then print out on a badge. These badges have the ability to control access to certain parts of the lodging facility. Provide your long-term guests and employees with stress-free safety. 

How to protect yourself from COVID-19 while traveling?

As families and travelers begin to venture out again, the CDC has released special guidance for commercial lodging. They advise travelers to contact their destinations beforehand. Stay informed about the hotel’s Covid-19 operating and safety policies. Also, check that employees wear masks, disinfect surfaces often, and practice distancing.
During your stay, use online services as much as possible. Online check-in, payments, and menu order help reduce contact with shared objects. Do your best to take extra caution in common areas where six feet distance is difficult such as elevators, gyms, and restaurants. 

Provide Peace of Mind with Hospitality Temperature Screening

Traveling looks a little different this year. But by following health and sanitation hotel protocols, hotels can help ensure that travelers enjoy a safer stay. We are here to help peace of mind with infrared hospitality temperature screening. Our thermography experts can help find a perfect solution for your lodging facility.

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December 5, 2023
ICI Announces SmartIR Now Available on AWS Marketplace

AI-Powered Condition-Based Monitoring Platform Helps Reliability and Operations Leaders
Automate and Optimize Predictive Maintenance and Maximize Operational Uptime

December 1, 2023 – Infrared Cameras, Incorporated (ICI) announced today that their asset reliability and operational efficiency optimization platform, SmartIR, is now available in AWS Marketplace., that runs on Amazon Web Services (AWS). AWS Marketplace is a digital catalog that makes it easy for customers to find, test, buy and deploy software listings from independent vendors. AWS Marketplace will help ICI customers simplify their SmartIR procurement process through consolidated billing, custom pricing and terms, and various other benefits.

ICI’s SmartIR platform enables the automation of asset reliability and operational efficiency initiatives through AI-powered continuous monitoring capabilities. Leveraging data inputs from thermal and acoustic imaging, and from vibration sensing, SmartIR continuously monitors the performance and condition of critical mechanical and electrical assets, and manufactured outputs, across a variety of industrial, environmental, and commercial settings.

The SmartIR platform informs predictive maintenance and reliability for a customer’s most critical assets, monitors manufactured outputs for quality issues, and provides early-stage fire detection and safety alerts throughout the facility.

“We at ICI are extremely excited about the continued development of our relationship with AWS,” said Gary Strahan, CEO of ICI. “Our company’s goal is to elevate our customers’ predictive maintenance and reliability strategies, quality assurance processes, and employee health and safety protocols. Having our SmartIR Platform in AWS Marketplace allows ICI to reach more of AWS’s customers and offer a frictionless experience for procuring and deploying our condition-based monitoring capabilities.”

For more information, please visit www.infraredcameras.com/smartir-platform.

About Infrared Cameras

ICI’s SmartIR is an AWS-powered software platform that leverages ICI-built thermal imaging, acoustic imaging, and vibration sensing devices for condition-based monitoring of critical mechanical and electrical assets and manufactured outputs. ICI’s solutions are deployed by organizations to protect critical assets across a wide range of industries including distribution & logistics, manufacturing, utilities, and oil & gas. ICI’s sensing solutions are built around high-resolution thermal imaging along with visible, acoustic, vibration and laser spectroscopy imagers and sensors. This full-stack solution measures heat, sound, and gas in the surrounding environment, helping companies gain insight to efficiently manage their most important assets and infrastructure. ICI designs and manufactures digital thermal sensing solution platforms with edge and cloud-based software.

For more information, please visit https://infraredcameras.com/.

About Infrared Cameras’ Proposed Business Combination With SportsMap Tech Acquisition Corp

On December 5, 2022, Infrared Cameras Holdings, Inc., ICI’s parent company, entered into a business combination agreement with SportsMap Tech Acquisition Corp. (NASDAQ: SMAP) relating to a proposed business combination between the parties that would result in Infrared Cameras Holdings becoming a public company. SMAP has filed a definitive proxy statement relating to the proposed business combination and the special meeting of its stockholders, scheduled for December 8, 2023, to vote to approve the proposed business combination and related matters. The parties have applied to have the combined company’s common stock listed on NASDAQ under the ticker symbol “MSAI”.

SMAP and ICI urge all interested persons to read the definitive proxy statement, which contains important information about SMAP, ICI and the proposed transaction. The definitive proxy statement can be obtained without charge at www.sec.gov.

Forward-Looking Statements

This press release contains forward-looking statements, which are not historical facts, including statements concerning the benefit of ICI’s SmartIR platform to customers and potential customers and SMAP’s or ICI’s beliefs about the proposed business combination transaction and ability of the combined company to qualify to list on NASDAQ. These statements may be preceded by, followed by or include the words “believes,” “predicts,” “estimates,” “expects,” “projects,” “forecasts,” “may,” “will,” “would,” “should,” “seeks,” “plans,” “scheduled,” “anticipates,” “intends,” “future,” “potential,” “opportunity,” or other similar expressions, the negatives of these terms or variations of them, although not all forward-looking statements will include such identifying words. Forward-looking statements are predictions, projections and other statements about the future events that are based on SMAP’s or ICI’s current expectations and assumptions and, as a result, are inherently subject to risks and uncertainties that may cause actual events, results or performance to differ materially from those indicated by such statements. Certain of these risks are identified and discussed in SMAP’s definitive proxy statement relating to the proposed business combination transaction and other filings SMAP or the combined company may make with the Securities and Exchange Commission. These risk factors will be important to consider in determining future results and should be reviewed in their entirety. Neither SMAP nor ICI is under any obligation, and expressly disclaim any obligation, to update, alter or otherwise revise any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required by law.

Media Contact:

Multi-Sensor AI

Andrew Klobucar

Director of Marketing

Andrew.klobucar@infraredcameras.com

Investor Contact:

Alpha IR Group

Mike Cummings or Griffin Morris

MSAI@alpha-ir.com

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July 25, 2023
Infrared Cameras, Incorporated Joins the AWS Public Sector Partner Program

July 26, 2023 – Infrared Cameras, Incorporated (ICI), announced today that they have joined the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Public Sector Partner (PSP) Program and completed the AWS Foundational Technical Review (FTR) to validate SmartIR. Completing the AWS FTR ensures ICI’s solutions uphold AWS standards in architectural design. In addition, the AWS PSP Program helps AWS Partners grow their public sector business through alignment with AWS public sector sales, marketing, funding, capture, and proposal teams. 

ICI leverages AWS to power its intelligent thermal imaging and condition monitoring software, SmartIR. Validated by the AWS FTR, SmartIR utilizes data points from thermal imaging and sensing technologies to continuously monitor the performance and condition of critical mechanical and electrical assets in industrial, environmental, and commercial settings. The SmartIR platform informs predictive maintenance for these assets, provides early fire detection and safety alerts, and robust reporting and analysis capabilities to optimize operational processes. By reinforcing SmartIR around AWS best practices for security, reliability, and operational excellence, ICI delivers a fully scalable asset reliability and safety platform built on AWS. 

“ICI is honored to join the AWS Public Sector Partner Program,” said Gary Strahan, CEO of ICI. “AWS has long been recognized as a leading cloud services provider and it is an honor to meet their standards and bring their technical advantages to our customers leveraging our SmartIR solution.” 

As an AWS PSP Program member, ICI is recognized as an AWS Partner with cloud-based solutions who have experience supporting government, space, education, and non-profits around the world ICI has long provided solutions to government entities, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, The Department of Transportation, and various state and municipal governments. 

For more information, please visit www.infraredcameras.com/smartir-platform

About Infrared Cameras, Incorporated

ICI builds thermal imaging and sensing platforms that are utilized by organizations to protect critical assets across a wide range of industries including distribution & logistics, manufacturing, utilities, and oil & gas. ICI’s sensing solutions are built around high-resolution thermal imaging along with visible, acoustic, and laser spectroscopy imagers and sensors, that perceive and measure heat, sound, and gas in the surrounding environment, helping companies gain insight to efficiently manage their most important assets and infrastructure. ICI designs and manufactures digital thermal sensing solution platforms with edge and cloud-based software. 

ICI believes that its digital thermal technology platform positions it at the center of a global revolution in thermal sensing, as the introduction of continuous streaming thermal data coupled with automated insights replaces intermittent manual thermal analysis, and cloud-connected thermal big data capture enables artificial intelligence and machine learning to elevate critical asset management to a new level. For more information, please visit https://infraredcameras.com/.

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September 27, 2022
ICI Debuts High Resolution Titan HD Infrared Camera

New Handheld Camera Pairs 1.3 Megapixel Resolution with an Affordable Price, Offering Ideal Solution for Long Distance Surveying of Critical Assets

Beaumont, Texas (September 26, 2022) -- Infrared Cameras Incorporated (ICI) today launched its Titan HD, a new 1.3-megapixel handheld camera that allows users to survey critical assets and infrastructure. The Titan HD’s 1280 x 1024 resolution is the highest in the industry for handheld thermal imagers, allowing for reliable, accurate temperature readings, even from a significant distance.

Engineered to accurately survey large and distant applications, the Titan HD leverages a 5.5-inch color LCD screen and 35 different temperature analysis points to aid in data collection and analysis in the field. The camera is also designed to cover a wide range of applications, measuring temperatures up to 1500 degrees Celsius (2,732 degrees Fahrenheit) to an accuracy of 1 degree Celsius.

“The Titan HD is a complete game changer, providing the highest resolution for a handheld camera in the industry” said Gary Strahan, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of ICI. “With 1.3 million pixels, users can survey vast applications like electrical substations and transmission lines quickly yet with extremely granular accuracy. Combine this with ICI’s leading SmartIR software and you have a solution that is unparalleled for inspections. This solution is especially valuable for applications requiring a small measurement spot size at long distance. The camera is also much lighter weight than many systems on the market that provide far less resolution.”

With leading resolution, a rotating viewfinder, and an ICI’s user-friendly SmartIR software, the camera is ideal for a wide range of inspection applications, including surveying electrical transmission lines and substations, petrochemical and plant equipment, insulation and building envelope inspections, scientific applications and much more. Users can define isotherms, record annotations, enable alarming functions, and capture images at set intervals. Video streaming is available via USB Type-C or HDMI.

Features include:

  • Wi-Fi and Bluetooth support
  • Touchscreen, 5.5” color LCD
  • Hot spot and cold spot tracing
  • Up to 35 temperature analysis elements
  • Customized color alarm isotherms
  • High-temperature measuring
  • Audible alarm settings
  • Automatic/manual file naming
  • Video streaming via USB Type-C or HDMI
  • Predefined text annotation lists
  • Voice annotation support

For more, please visit www.infraredcameras.com.

About Infrared Cameras Inc.

Infrared Cameras Inc has been a leader in developing and manufacturing innovative infrared imaging technology since 1995. Veteran-owned and based in Beaumont, Texas, ICI offers complete infrared solutions, including equipment, custom designs, software, calibration, training, and more. The company's mission is to develop the most sensitive, accurate, and competitively priced infrared cameras in the world. To learn more about Infrared Cameras, visit www.infraredcameras.com or follow ICI on Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube and Facebook.

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Andrew.klobucar@infraredcameras.com

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