AI has made its way into many industries to increase efficiency, maximize operations, and improve customer experience. In the janitorial space, this tech is also a tool that can be used to amplify sanitization and hygiene efforts by reducing the spread of germs. Throughout winter, as we spend more time indoors, reducing the spread of germs continues to be a top priority, and today’s technology can help.
Sanitization
Robotics is revolutionizing the cleaning world, helping to increase efforts to sanitize and limit the spread of germs. In hospitals, robots are being used to sterilize rooms once they are vacant using sensor technology and UV light. In some cases, robots emit a high-intensity UV-C light that damages the DNA of microorganisms, making them unable to reproduce or cause infections.
With maximum efficiency and a minimal margin for error, robotics offer improved cleaning and sanitizing services throughout multiple industries.
Training
Along with simplifying cleaning and disinfecting, AI is helping to transform staff training with simulations focused on infection prevention. AI tools allow staff to train interactively in all aspects of cleaning, from hand hygiene to personal protective equipment (PPE) use.
In some cases, with the easy adoption of an app, AI can walk workers through step-by-step practices and protocols, all from a mobile device. As well as helping to train employees, AI can offer real-time data and analytics to track individual performance, provide personalized feedback, highlight areas for improvement, and predict patterns and behaviour.
Labour management
While AI and robotics often offer more efficient, more effective methods of maintaining hygiene and sanitation, they also allow staff to be better allocated for complex human tasks. Cleaners can leverage AI to assign tasks to staff and complete scheduling for different sites based on location, ease-of-access, and travel time. So, AI helps assign the appropriate labour to each task, improve operational efficiency, and increase cleaning efforts.
AI helps cleaners in a myriad of ways, but perhaps most important is the improved standard in sanitization, hygiene, and germ prevention.
