Low cost non-contact rapid body temperature screening using thermal camera for early detection of Covid-19 suspect

Septama, H. D.; Komarudin, M.; Yudamson, A.; Yulianti, T.; Pratama, M.; Zuhelmi, T. P.

Symptoms with a body temperature above 37,5°C can be categorized as suspected of covid-19. Therefore, rapid body temperature may be used as early screening of covid-19 suspect. Many location use staff equipped with thermometer gun for screening the visitor body temperature. This scenario has drawbacks since there is closed contact between staff and visitor within body temperature screening which may cause the spread of the virus. This paper present low cost non-contact rapid body temperature screening using a thermal camera that integrate with barrier gate. Therefore, there is no staff needed for body temperature screening since visitor may check their body temperature independently. For visitors who are detected as having a body temperature ≤ 37.5°C, system will count as covid-19 suspect and the barrier gate will not open. The visitor with body temperature below 37.5°C will considered as normal and the system will open the barrier gate. The results show the the proposed system work properly for visitor body temperature screening with the accuracy is 98,75%. © 2021 IEEE.