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navirus test, Ox Box installed its first Facemate on the shop floor. At the time, it was performing as advertised, taking temperature readings and alerting Ockerlund’s phone. “I liked everything about it but realized that if there was a time clock feature, it could solve another one of our ongo- ing issues: time cards and attendance. I saw the Facemate could be a dual-purpose solution,” he said. Ockerlund brought the idea to Misztur, who hadn’t pre- viously considered the time clock feature but agreed to in- corporate it into Facemate. Ox Box now has two enhanced units at the plant – there was no extra charge for the time clock feature – one at the employee entrance and one at the front of the building for office staff, visitors and guests. Every employee “scans” into work in the morning and out in the evening, providing a record of their body tem- perature, as well as their time in and out. Ockerlund set the top end of the temperature range at 99.9 degrees, so if any employee has a temperature above that, he can- not clock in. The screen turns red, supervisors are alerted and the employee is pulled aside and told to get tested. Ockerlund receives a report every day as to every employ- ee’s mean and median temperatures and monitors exactly when every employee scans in and out of work. Fortunately, since Ox Box installed its Facemates, no employee has been out of range. Guests, visitors and ven- dors who arrive at the front door who aren’t logged in to Ox Box’s system create an alert to Ockerlund’s phone, tell-
Ox Box management team would receive on their phones if a scan result was “out of range.” Facemate arrived as a prepackaged tablet, an “out- of-the-box solution” that only required mounting at an
entrance or exit before being connected to a company’s server, a simple job for any IT person. The cost of the tab- let with standard features was $2,750. Within a few weeks after news of that first positive coro-
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