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How wearable sensors, temperature screening devices and other technologies are helping control the pandemic

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How wearable sensors, temperature screening devices and other technologies are helping control the pandemic

The coronavirus pandemic has brought into the spotlight the necessity to leverage our digital infrastructure and technologies for remote patient identification and monitoring. As the viral tests and the promised vaccines are slow to emerge, we can sense a need for more robust disease monitoring of individual and public health, which can definitely be aided by temperature screening cameras and wearable sensors.

Real-time data from body temperature monitoring sensors enables healthcare workers or even business owners and office managers to effectively screen individuals and workers with a high temperature.

Thanks to these technologies and temperature sensors, public institutions and hospitals are able to provide better health monitoring to their communities. Health managers can monitor people’s temperature and when necessary, escalate a case to provide urgent healthcare to individuals or workers who are in need.

Companies, institutions and communities are increasingly turning to IoT technologies to help provide better health services to its population and workers. IoT solutions allow the healthcare industry to produce applications that can optimise patient care and public health workflows through accurate data monitoring.

When these technologies are used in conjunction with predictive platforms, people wearing these devices will be alerted whenever changes in their metrics match those associated with coronavirus. Anonymous data localised to neighborhoods or even specific postcodes can provide public health managers an invaluable tool to track and tackle the spread of coronavirus, especially during the current second wave. Identifiable data, like for instance remote monitoring of cohorts (businesses, families, offices and facilities) associated with people diagnosed with coronavirus, can provide highly valuable data such as acceleration of transmission.

 

WHAT MEASURES ARE BUSINESSES TAKING?

Many company owners and managers are rushing to deploy new worker health-tracking techniques in an effort to quickly reopen the economy and make it safer for millions of workers to return to their roles in offices, stores and factories. Some business owners are even requiring their staff to fill out virus-screening questionnaires or requesting them to wear social-distancing wristbands that will vibrate when they get close to each other. Some are even hoping to be able to issue digital “immunity” badges to workers who have COVID-19 antibodies, thus marking them as safe to return to their jobs.

Firms are adopting these new worker-tracking tools and techniques in response to guidelines from the government asking companies to monitor their employees for indicative symptoms and prohibit workers with key symptoms from returning to offices unless a health professional has cleared them.

Not only offices of large firms are using such techniques, but also some warehouses and restaurants, for instance, are utilising hand-held infrared devices to measure employees’ temperatures. Many of those small businesses are utilising wall-mounted thermal-screening cameras that workers stop in front of for quick temperature checks. The system can record the time, date, name of the employee and the temperature, generating a historical log for workers who want to check on employee compliance.

 

MONITORING TEMPERATURES

Temperature measurement is of the utmost importance when it comes to coronavirus detection and has already been extensively used by many countries as a reliable test to establish if citizens or travellers are infected with coronavirus. Quarantining individuals who have a fever can prevent transmission to some degree as a worst-case scenario measure, but this approach to temperature monitoring is definitely key to identify and ultimately stop the transmission of coronavirus.

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