Reducing Coronavirus Spread through Hikvision Thermal Screening Camera

Jie Liang Chua
DataSeries
Published in
4 min readMay 6, 2020

With extreme conditions topping around the globe, everyone is confined to their homes because social distancing is the last option to get rid of the deadly coronavirus. Scientists and medical health experts from all around the world are trying to create a solution that saves people from the virus. Joining the bandwagon, the most significant technology rivals like Google and Apple have joined hands to develop a technology that detects people with coronavirus symptoms.

So, to join hands with the community, Hikvision has come forward to designing a new camera with the capability to measure body temperature. The camera has been designed with top-notch speed and high accuracy through which users can conduct biometric screening for viruses, leading to enhanced public safety. This is because 90% of the cases from China had a fever as the prime symptom of COVID-19. So, this is the top reason that fever screening has become essential.

Through these devices, the users will be able to identify fever symptoms for coronavirus, and in the long run, it shall help with virus transmission prevention. For instance, Hikvision has come up with a thermal fever screening camera, which is perfect for identifying and detecting the coronavirus symptoms. The camera has the features to detect skin surface temperature and provide fever screening. The fever screening offers accuracy up to ±0.3°C, which is pretty precise and cutting-edge.

To leverage fever detection, the thermal screening camera has been designed to limit the spread of the virus, and there are contactless sensors in the camera. Fever detection is accurate enough to detect elevated temperature within one second. The integration of blackbody temperature calibration and unified data management, the features are catching up to the top. There are high-temperature warnings and multi-scene management to detect the temperature in a crowd as well.

The Hikvision thermal screening camera has been integrated with one-second temperature detection, and it has the capability to detect multiple temperatures at once. In other words, the camera can detect the temperature of multiple people at one time. The camera has the ability to detect temperature safely, even with no physical contact.

The camera is designed with ultimate and top-notch technology with the implication of artificial intelligence. Through the implementation of artificial intelligence, false alarms will be reduced because the camera will focus on human bodies instead of detecting temperature from other sources. There are immediate alarms available through which operators get timely notifications if there are elevated temperatures in someone.

In addition, there is bi-spectrum monitoring in the camera, which has been designed to offer optical images with ultimate precision and accuracy. In addition, the camera will detect the thermals, and with the implication of temperature measurement algorithms, the cameras offer high reliability through the Hikvision camera.

There are new hardware options available in the thermal screening cameras, and with the implication of TPS450, temperature screening is possible through mobile identification. Also, there is DS-2TD2TPAN A/VI; the users will detect the person with elevated temperature and clicks the image of the person and transmits it to the central terminal. For offering long-range temperature screening, there are two bullet cameras.

There are DS-K1T671MF and DS-K1T331 (W) through which multi-biometric checks have been implied and offer wireless functionality. Also, the thermal screening camera has been designed and launched in the Indian market and is designed to offer thermal screening in schools, transport terminals, airports, and hospitals.

The Hikvision’s thermal screening camera has been designed with IR radiation sensing and creates the thermal images as well. The radiation sensing ranges from 8μm to 14μm. The camera will convert the IR radiations into gray values. Then, the gray values will design the corresponding relation. The relations are devised between temperature and gray value with the implementation of the temperature measurement algorithm model. However, it is better to conduct accurate clinical measurement devices after temperature detection.

With ever-increasing coronavirus cases around the globe, fever has been named as the primary symptom, and this camera is designed to detect people who have a fever. Also, with this information, you will be able to keep potentially infected people away from the premises and reduce the spread of the virus. This camera is designed with thermal principles.

The camera will detect people who are emitting temperature above the absolute zero temperature range through radiation. Through the implementation of advanced technology and temperature measurement algorithm models, the blackbody calibration will be implied to design the temperature gray level curve.

The Hikvision thermal screening camera will accurately detect the high body temperature for the purpose of primary screening, and these cameras are designed to be installed in crowded areas or where there can be queues.

Hikvision thermal screening camera has been designed with utter efficiency, and that’s seeable with its ability to take only one second for detecting the elevated body temperature. However, there shall be no congestion wherever temperatures need to be checked. The camera offers non-contact temperature measurement for accurate temperature identification. The camera can screen people with one-meter distance. This distance is designed to ensure there is no physical contact between people who could be potentially infected with COVID-19.

In this section, we are describing the screening process of the Hikvision thermal screening camera. So, have a look!

  • First of all, set up the screening channels in the indoor space to divide the space into different channels
  • The screening solution will be implied for the screening of crowd and queues
  • If screening camera detects someone with elevated temperature, secondary thermometer check should be implied
  • The distance between target and camera should be around 1 to 1.5 meter
  • Install the camera at 1.5m height
  • ● The blackbody should appear at the upper right or upper left corner
  • The blackbody must never be blocked by targets
  • Install the camera in indoor spaces where there is no wind, so the camera stays stable

Originally published at https://audiovisualaoce.com on May 6, 2020.

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