Keeping people safe and healthy in unsure times like those of today’s COVID 19 is the latest challenge. Authorities and companies are scrambling to find ways to help manage such challenge and reduce risks. Hikvision offers temperature screening solutions to help them build processes and infrastructures to prevail.
Taking the temperature of the situation
Temperature is an important indicator of physical health, especially during the current COVID 19 situation. In many scenarios, people with abnormal temperature could have a health issue. To have a proper effect, it’s crucial that this is detected and monitored quickly and accurately. But traditional methods of temperature measurement are time-consuming and can put operators at risk. At times like these, technology can provide an efficient alternative.
With advanced detectors and algorithms, Hikvision’stemperature screening thermographic cameras are designed to detect elevated skin-surface temperatures. This means they can be used for rapid and preliminary temperature screening in hospitals, stations, airports and other public places. These cameras have an accuracy rate of up to ±0.5°C, giving a valuable indication of which persons should be further tested for fever.
It takes just one second to detect a person’s skin-surface temperature, and the system can measures multiple people at the same time. This means it is efficient in an entrance, for example, where a number of people will be passing at the same time.
The use of AI technology means non-human heat sources for example, a hot coffee are ignored, and that helps in reducing false alarms.
Once a person is identified by the camera as having a higher skin-surface temperature, he can be flagged for further investigations. The system can also be useful to monitor a situation providing useful anonymous data from a safe distance supporting end users’ potential analysis or research.
All this is also achieved with fewer people, not only making it easier to manage and more efficient but also reducing the overall risk of unnecessary exposure.
Flexible solutions
Hikvision’s thermal portfolio has a number of options to help with temperature screening. For example, a turret/ bullet camera with AI combined with iVMS 4200, a laptop and a bracket can be used as a quick solution that can be easily and quickly installed. For higher accuracy, a solution with a Blackbody calibrator gives an accuracy of ±0.3°C. There’s also a more mobile option, using a handheld camera that can connect to a smart phone or PC through Wi-Fi to a Hik-Thermal app. This also features a built-in speaker for audio alarm.
There are also solutions that combine temperature screening with access control, allowing lobbies to be monitored and, if necessary, people measuring above a certain skin-surface temperature refused entry until they are double-checked by alternative methods.
It’s important to remember that Hikvision’s temperature screening thermographic cameras are designed for the detection of skin-surface temperatures so as to achieve rapid preliminary screening in public areas. Actual core body temperatures should be further confirmed using clinical measurement devices.
This is just one element of a complex infrastructure to overcome challenges in unsure times. It can also give managers and researchers useful information, collected in a safe manner. Hikvision is committed to developing technologies to empower vision for decision-makers and practitioners, and enhance safety and security.
