Companies are taking advantage of their new ability to track their workers

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One mega-church in Florida uses tracking technology based on computer vision to monitor worshippers' attendance

Get our daily newsletterSome of the smarts in the Siemens building are there for the workers. An app called Comfy, made by an American firm called Building Robotics that Siemens bought for an undisclosed sum last year, allows workers to adjust temperature and light levels in their offices with their phones. Over time, the system will learn the preferences of individual workers, and automatically warm or cool their offices.

That information can be converted into a heat map of the building, showing popular areas and less-travelled ones, helping managers make the best use of space. Occupancy data can be fed to the heating systems, allowing energy savings when the building is sparsely populated. “It allows us to quantify things that used to be intangible,” says Mr Leitgeb.

Another option is to track customers rather than workers. Xovis, a Swiss firm, offers a tracking technology based on computer vision that can tell the difference between men and women; this information can be used to see how they move around a shop differently. It can also be used to measure waiting times at airports. One Florida mega-church uses the system to monitor attendance.Systems, a Danish firm, offers a similar service using data gleaned from shoppers’ smartphones.

 

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If they want to make money they should shit can hurricane prone ocean side vacation properties and vehicles on these sites.

Because they are Judases.

WHY GO THERE UNLESS YOU LIKE BEING TAGGED DO THEY TRACK YOU IN THE REST ROOM

The heavenly police state ?

Orwell & Huxley would have Loved this one , The 'Church' now uses the Technocratic Digital Dictatorship Tool of 'Social Scoring ' Good Score =Go The Heaven , Negative Score = You Get the Picture by now

Why is ANY chirch Monitoring parishioners attendance? and Church and High Tech are kind of counter intuitive. But thats just my opinion..

Thankfully, I'm retired and don't attend church! I do shop, though...

Isn’t god supposed to be doing that?

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