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InnovationLab Demos Printed Organic Sensor ‘Smart Mat’ for Social Distancing in Retail Settings

Automated distance control platform features 8,000 printed sensors.

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By: Anthony Locicero

Copy editor, New York Post

InnovationLab announced its “smart mat,” a sensor-based distance-control floor mat that helps to ensure social distancing in retail outlets.    With new research citing a 50% risk reduction of COVID-19 when maintaining two meters (approximately 6.6 feet) of distance between people compared to a one-meter distance, maintaining a distance between both shoppers and cashiers in retail settings has never been more critical.    While existing systems monitoring shoppers’ locations and the numb...

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