Development of The Contactless Economy in The Post-Pandemic Era
Nov 16, 2022
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In 2003, "SARS" gave birth to the transformation of China's retail industry, and e-commerce began to take off at that time. During the Spring Festival in 2020, the novel coronavirus pneumonia epidemic began to break out around the world, causing varying degrees of impact on the global economy, consumption, and investment.
Up to now, Covid 19 has persisted for more than 3 years, and it is foreseeable that the economy will also be affected by the epidemic for a long time to come. While it has brought a huge impact on all walks of life, it has also brought opportunities and challenges to many industries, among which, the "non-contact economy" has been born.
Due to the strong human-to-human transmission characteristics of the new coronavirus, in order to prevent and control the epidemic, "contactless" has become the current rigid demand, "contactless access control", ''contactless delivery', "telemedicine", ""online online classes ", wait for the contactless economic model to become popular quietly. It covers all aspects of our life, work and study, allowing everyone to see more business possibilities.
Contactless access
In a Hema Fresh supermarket in Beijing, customers are waiting to enter the mall after measure their temperature and recognize their face with Macrosafe Speed Gate System. Their health code status and body temperature are displayed on the screen in real time.
During the epidemic, in train stations, airports, shopping malls, schools and other crowd gathering places, it has become the norm to use turnstile gates and various temperature measurement equipment to verify the "contactless access" of the crowd. Traditional access control is mostly based on contact verification, such as manual inspection, or passwords, fingerprints, ID cards and so on. On the one hand, the efficiency is relatively low, it is easy to cause dense crowds, and there is a risk of epidemic transmission. On the other hand, contact vectors are easy to spread germs. Turnstile gates, which incorporate artificial intelligence, allow for contactless access control to reduce people's face-to-face contact, and high-traffic traffic to reduce the likelihood of crowds gathering.
Contactless delivery
In the field of express delivery, which is closely related to people's daily life, "contactless" technology is also playing its part.
Taking the intelligent distribution robot independently developed by JD Logistics as an example, it can realize unmanned and contactless delivery. The courier sterilizes and puts out the vehicle in accordance with the standard process. After clicking to go, the vehicle will automatically notify the recipient through text messages and voice calls, wait for the customer to pick up the package, and then automatically go to the next pickup point or return to the delivery site. , to achieve full L4 automatic driving including complex scenes such as people and vehicles mixed, traffic light intersections and so on.
The entire distribution process has been unmanned, which not only reduces the spread of the virus during the epidemic, but also eases the dilemma of labor shortages.
Contactless working
The huge demand in extraordinary times has also brought new models such as telecommuting into a rising period, especially online meetings and online recruitment as the biggest bright spot.
In previous years, March and April were the peak recruitment seasons. This year, due to the impact of the epidemic, in order to avoid potential safety hazards caused by crowds and effectively resume work and production, many corporate talent recruitment fairs have moved to the "cloud" and employed online interviews for recruitment. . In addition, we have seen many companies choose online methods to carry out new product launches and seminars during the epidemic.
Telemedicine
Telemedicine is a relatively new concept, which refers to a medical model that uses communication and information technology to realize various medical functions such as disease diagnosis, treatment and health care in different places.
In the past few decades, telemedicine has not been widely used and was even considered a pseudo-demand product. The global pandemic has accelerated a consumption and business model, the remote virtual interactive service system. As a model developed in recent years, telemedicine has ushered in new energy and catalysts. The demand for telemedicine is increasing at a double rate.
In the post-epidemic era, many cultural and tourism services have been moved online, and even music festivals can be held online... The "contactless economy" model has allowed many commercial fields to find room for expansion, allowing people to enjoy a variety of products at home. Level service experience, this is a huge business opportunity.
Furthermore, with the rapid development of technologies such as 5G, artificial intelligence, and the Internet of Things, the rapid development of technologies such as 5G, artificial intelligence, and the Internet of Things will bring broader development space for the 'contactless' economy.