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.
The authorities security in China they are wearing AI-powered smart glasses to be able to detect people with fever.
The glasses use a camera thermal imaging 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 devices detect someone with a fever, they send an automatic alert to 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 several models of smart glasses have been available in the public office since January 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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Of course, there are several companies that are trying to detect COVID-19 with thermal imaging systems. 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.
Οι συσκευές μετρούν τη θερμοκρασία του δέρματος, η οποία δεν είναι πάντα η ίδια με τη θερμοκρασία του body. Μπορούν επίσης να κάνουν πάρα πολλά λάθη (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.
