13/01/2022
Our chairman, Ivar Plahte, talks to Norwegian magazine Nemitek about how indoor public venues can become the 'firewalls' of the pandemic response with a more systematic approach.
He compares the pandemic response to IT security, where the main course of action in the 90s similarly was to shut down all basement servers upon a datavirus attack.
IT security has since then evolved to a multi-layered combination of advanced middleware filters and detection mechanisms, such as 2 factor authentication, spam IP detectors, and traffic monitoring, that are systematically chained behind the most scalable and least accurate detection and prevention mechanism, the 'firewall'.
Critical services such as online banking and telecom networks are as such now protected by chains of robust security mechanisms that maintain near 100% uptime in spite of continous well-organized hacker attacks.
Similarly, air filters that can both remove and detect virus particles, installed at indoor public venues where the virus typically spreads, can become the firewall equivalent of the pandemic response. These include classrooms, restaurants, hotels, bars, offices, conference venues, lecture halls, concert and sports arenas, trains, airports, gyms, hospitals and cinemas.
When a virus is detected by a building virus filter, its occupants can be subsequently alerted to the next filter of detection, e.g. self tests, and so on.
TJUVHOLMEN: IT-bransjen vil lære helsesektoren og VVS-bransjen å bekjempe virus. Ventilasjon og filtrering er første tiltak. Offentlige bygninger kan være «brannveggen» mot Covid, mener Ivar Plahte.
