Ward off Pandemic by Replacing Labor with Smart Thermal Imaging and Entrance Control

In the battles against the COVID-19 pandemic, demands of screening devices and efforts are increasing.

More labor has been put into monitoring body temperatures of those at public entrances as the battle against the COVID-19 pandemic escalates on a global scale. When there's heavy traffic, people will have to queue up just to be pointed at by a digital thermometer, one at a time.

Infrared cameras and devices of the sort have thus emerged on the market as a makeshift alternative, but the equipment is not smart enough and still calls for on-site human force to identify anomalies — in this case, feverish people — and take timely actions. Places with multiple entrances may, from time to time, be swarmed with people, which makes it harder to keep these places airtight, in term exacerbating the risks of the crowd falling prey to the infectious coronavirus.

To tackle the need of a smarter way of public pandemic control, DFI took on the recognition technologies and software platform developed by ioNetworks,and rolled out the Centralized Smart Thermal Control System. The system integrates the crucial elements into the platform — body temperature, facial recognition, and entrance control — and frees the whole process of labor intensive duties.