Amid the pandemic caused by the novel coronavirus (SARS-COV-2), society has had to readapt its social dynamics to comply with health measures and prevent contagion by the new virus. The ICT-FE sector was no different and, since the beginning of the pandemic, the sector has adopted a series of measures to make physical spaces safer and offer the necessary technical support in the remote context.
Health protocols in physical spaces
Due to the need to avoid crowds, TIC-FE adopted measures to maintain the minimum necessary distance. To this end, it reduced the number of computers — from 42 to 33 — in the laboratory rooms so that social distancing was guaranteed between people; divided the service room into two to avoid physical proximity and waiting in the hallway; adopted signage informing about precautions against the virus and made alcohol gel available at various points for sanitization.
MonLab: with developed to monitor the occupancy of the Computer Lab
Given the concern about the number of users present in the computer lab, the team developed a with capable of real-time monitoring of the number of computers being used at a given time, so that users can avoid using the space when it is highly occupied. The program is connected to the 33 computers located in the laboratory and can check when one is being used, with an update interval of approximately 2 minutes. The occupancy level can be viewed on the FE website (https://www.fe.unicamp.br/lab-informatica/) or in the physical spaces of the faculty, being the interface broadcast live on televisions located at the entrance and in Annex 1.
Software for calculating students per classroom
Classrooms have the potential for contamination due to the high number of students in the same space. With this in mind, the TIC-FE team developed a with whose function is to calculate the number of students that can be in a classroom as long as social distancing guidelines are respected. The system works in such a way that, by providing the width and depth of a room, adjusting the definitions of space reserved for students and teachers, and considering social distancing, the maximum number of students allowed will be informed, accompanied by a graph showing the places that the chairs will occupy. At the moment, all rooms at the School of Education and COTIL are pre-configured, which makes the calculation easier. Any UNICAMP unit may request the incorporation of the dimensions of their respective rooms for the calculation operation. It is worth mentioning that the action includes the university's plan for resuming in-person activities, as stated in Covid-19 Primer.
Data migration from network storage to cloud
With the suspension of in-person activities at the university, remote return became an alternative for the continuity of the institution's academic activities. However, some resources were only available on the internal network, which made it impossible to access them. As a result, the team made efforts to transfer data to the cloud, making them accessible again and thus allowing the college's activities to continue.
