Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome. Otherwise known as
SARS is taking away many precious lives in Asia and beyond.
The outbreak of this deadly virus in several countries around the world has
left us all scrambling to contain the disease and prevent it from spreading
In our fight against SARS, we have designed a system known as Infrared Fever
Screening System (IFSS).
IFSS uses leading-edge electro-optics technology and allows for rapid real-time
mass screening, identifying individuals with high fever, one of the symptoms
HOW IT WORKS
Operating like a video camera the IFSS uses passive Infrared Imaging
technology to take thermographs of people. These thermographs provide
pseudo colour reading of varying body temperatures, allowing easy identification
of those with high fever. They can then be taken aside for further medical
IFSS provides a non-intrusive and reliable means of screening large
groups of people simultaneously. Compared to the time-consuming method
thermometers to take everyone’s temperature, the system offers
almost instantaneous results in just a matter of seconds.
With IFSS, there is absolutely no contact with potentially infected
individuals, thereby reducing the risk to infection. Rest assured also
system is radiation-free, thus safe for both children and pregnant
EASE OF USE
Operating IFSS is easy. No special training is required or complicated
procedures to follow. With the fully automated system, it’s all
just a matter of watching the screen to view real-time images and identifying
those with fever.
IFSS ensures high efficiency, greatly reducing the number of medical
staff required to perform mass screening.
reading takes about 1 min
|| Only 2 secs to colour
map each person's face
taken at different angles will vary
|| Image seen is consistent
screening will require person-to-person contact
|| Operator is 3m away from
required to attend to each person
|| Only feverish people
need to be attended to by nurses
queue for temperature checking
|| No hold up. The queue
moves continuously at walking pace
of thermometer tip covers at 1 per person
|| No consumables required
IFSS is set-up about 3 metres away from the entrance. Disembarking passengers
are narrowed down into a single file along the aerobridge/screening point.
As they walk through one by one, each and every one is screened by IFSS for
feverish passengers are filtered out immediately for further medical tests.
The rest walk on and continue as normal.