Temperature screening technology for COVID-19 is being tested at a Hamilton grocery store
- Michael Kras
- 29 Apr 2020
According to a report from the Hamilton Spectator, new technology is being tested at the Nations grocery store in Hamilton’s Jackson Square Mall that has potential to scan groups of people and assess their body temperatures amid COVID-19.
Developed by Enzo Jia, CEO of Hamilton-based Longan Vision alongside other graduates and students of McMaster University’s mechanical engineering program, this temperature screening technology, called Gatekeeper, works with thermal imaging augmented reality that is read via two cameras; one which reads the temperature of the area itself, and the other which scans individuals in relation to that area temperature. Both sets of data are compared via a computer.
When shoppers enter Nations grocery store in Jackson Square, they'll be captured by a thermal imaging camera system Longan Vision is testing to identify people that may need secondary screening for #COVID19, @_barrygray_ reports #HamOnthttps://t.co/dWnNwcW9iG
— Hamilton Spectator (@TheSpec) April 28, 2020
When individuals enter a public space, their body temperature would automatically be read by these cameras and they would assess whether that temperature is normal or irregular. The computer screen would then alert those monitoring the area if there are people entering the space with potentially dangerous body temperatures.
This technology could be an advanced step in safety measures required as a result of this pandemic, particularly when emergency orders and social distancing measures begin to relax in the near future and Hamiltonians slowly start to return to a next-to-normal communal existence.
There has already been talk of instituting temperature checks for individuals entering public spaces, and this thermal imaging technology has the potential to play a large role in expediting that process as well as render it less invasive than other temperature-checking methods such as forehead scans.
The technology is in place to being tested and tweaked at Nations Fresh Foods for one month.
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