COVID 19: Smart glasses can take your temperature from 1 meter away, and thus detect people who have a fever, one of the main symptoms of coronavirus.
Security forces in China wear smart glasses that work with AI to detect people with a fever.
The glasses use a thermal imaging camera to measure the temperature of someone up to 1 meter away.
The glasses were made by AI startup Rokid, which claims that each set can control the temperature of several hundred people in just two minutes, according to a Publication of the South China Morning Post.
When the devices detect someone with a fever, they send a automatic alert security personnel and create a digital file.
The standard was set by security guards at Hongyuan Park, part of a wetland in eastern Hangzhou. The park is public and is one of the first to reopen as virus infections begin to decline.
Rokit reports that many have been made available since January models έξυπνων γυαλιών στο γραφείο δημόσιας better safetyand the Hangzhou police. According to the company they have also been made available to the authorities of the nearby cities of Huzhou and Quzhou.
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There are several Companies of course they are trying with thermal imaging systems to detect COVID-19. The product it sells because the stakeholders are so many: hospitals, airports and even nursing homes use the devices to check their customers, staff and patients.
But this does not mean that technology is always effective.
The devices measure skin temperature, which is not always the same as body temperature. They can also make too many mistakes (pdf). The most important thing, of course, is that they cannot detect infected people who do not yet have symptoms.
The journal Science he says that eight passengers who recently flew from Italy to Shanghai tested positive for COVID-19 and were not identified by airport checks.
