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  • Contactless Access™ allows people to operate elevators and doors touch free
    by Peter Szperling OTTAWA — It is technology that seems like it is out of the future – a cellphone app that controls public elevators and opens doors. A hands-off and touch-less approach, an Ottawa tech company has designed an …
  • Ottawa inventor sees rising interest in hands-free elevator-hailing app
    by David Sali Before the pandemic struck, Ke Wang had devoted the better part of the last two years to developing a smartphone app that would allow people with disabilities like himself to open doors and call elevators without touching …
  • Contactless Elevators at Carleton University
    CBC Ottawa Morning with Robyn Bresnahan Listen to Dean Mellway, READ Initative and Host, Robyn Breshnahan discuss Contactless Access™ at Carleton University
  • Carleton Collaboration Creates Automated Access to Elevators
    Contactless Access Now in Use in Paterson Hall by Joseph Mathieu If you have ever listened to an audiobook, attached a seat belt or walked up a ramp, you have benefited from accessible design. Specifically, you’ve experienced the “curb cut …
  • Touchless Elevator Trial at Toronto Pearson
    Pilot program by Contactless Access makes elevators touchless. Testing advanced new technology and innovative solutions is one of the most important pillars of the airport’s Healthy Airport Commitment to passengers and employees.  ProtoDev Canada’s Contactless Access uses wireless control modules …