Non-invasive Low Cost Fever Detection Systems

Abstract

With the current covid-19 pandemic ongoing, staying safe is o upmost importance. In being proactive, people everywhere are clothed in facial masks and gloves. Businesses and universities are conducting temperature checks in a multitude of methods such as thermal imaging, forehead, oral, and aural thermometer handguns. From our research, we discovered that the non-contact based devices available in the market today are quite expensive, ranging from $10k-$60k and would still require some close contact with the next individual. Our Artificial Intelligence and Visualizations (AiVi) team at North Carolina A&T State University aimed to create fever detection systems that would promote safer testing in regard to exposure to any viruses or illness one may carry, affordability, as well as equal or greater accuracy. For this research project, we designed, built, and programmed three devices, namely: (i) Aggie Arm, thermometer inspired device that reads temperature values from an individual s forehead when within range; (ii) Aggie Eye, a thermal imaging device that measures body temperature based on values gathered from the tear duct of the eye with higher accuracy; (iii) Aggie Talk, an intercom system coupled with the Aggie Eye to be integrated with existing k-12 school intercom systems.