Stop viruses at the door with a fever screening camera system.

Prevent damaging downtime and lost labour from viruses of all kinds using fast, accurate and touch-free fever screening terminals. 

From COVID-19 to seasonal flu, we’ve all become acutely aware of the damage that can be done by contagious viruses once they enter the workforce. Which is why it’s important for businesses to do all they can to detect and prevent the spread of viruses. 

However, it’s also important not to build delays and inconvenience into the working day with an overly cumbersome monitoring process. 

That’s where advanced thermal imaging cameras can help. 

Fast and accurate detection of raised body temperature can be your early warning signal, allowing you to act to stop viruses from spreading. 

Thermal imaging cameras have long been used to monitor temperature at a distance. Common uses include monitoring equipment prone to overheating, acting as a fire early warning system or even detecting smoking in smoke-free areas. 

As the technology has progressed the accuracy of thermal imaging (or thermographic) cameras has improved greatly. To such an extent, in fact, that our modern thermographic cameras can be calibrated to accuracy of ±0.3°C. 

Such cameras are now accurate enough to detect the small elevation in skin temperature associated with a fever. 

1: Location.

Choose an “airlock” entrance

If you currently have several employee entrances, you will either need to locate cameras at every entrance or choose just one and prevent the other entrances from being used. 

Because of the speed of detection of the thermographic technology, using a single entrance may be preferable as it allows for greater control. 

If you’re choosing from several options, the best entrances to use are ones where an “airlock” system can be set up.

This means an area with a single entrance and exit. Employees will be allowed in the first entrance and scanned in the controlled environment inside. They will then only be allowed through the second door and into the premises if they pass the test (via a linked automatic door lock). 

2: Detection.

Use a secondary detection method.

Even when a raised temperature is detected it is good practice to use a second temperature measurement method to confirm the diagnosis.

We recommend using a bullet camera or door entry panel with integrated thermographic camera for a fast initial scan. This would effectively be looking for people outside of normal parameters. When someone fails the initial scan, they would then be moved aside (to allow the flow of employees into the building to continue) and tested again using a secondary method. 

For the second scan a different detection method should be used, digital in-ear thermometer or preferably a non-contact, hand-held infrared thermometer. This will provide a second data point from a different device which will enable you to confirm the original result.