Malaysian police to identify Covid-19 patients with high-tech helmets -

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The coronavirus pandemic continues around the world.

From the start, new technologies have been called upon to try to limit contamination, with varying degrees of success.

In addition to tracking applications, connected bracelets and surveillance cameras with AI, a new type of headset has also appeared.

These are helmets equipped with a thermal camera that allows the temperature of several people to be measured at the same time while keeping a certain distance.

After China, Dubai and Italy, it is Malaysia's turn to opt for this technology to try to strengthen its measures against the coronavirus.

The train company KTMB has indeed indicated that police officers equipped with thermal scanning helmets will patrol its stations and trains, in order to take the temperature of commuters.

For testing

KTMB specifies on Facebook that the project is still at an experimental stage.

The effectiveness of these helmets in the field has yet to be proven, but the company assures that it is an additional means to strengthen the health safety of commuters.

Malaysian police to identify Covid-19 patients with high-tech helmets / Credit KTM Berhad - Geeko

These helmets support the various measures put in place in stations and trains such as taking the temperature of visitors at the entrance to stations, the availability of hydroalcoholic gel and train disinfection.

Ultimately, if the results are convincing, these famous helmets could be found all over the country.

Concretely, these devices are equipped with a thermal camera that allows them to detect the body temperature of people up to two meters away.

The detected temperatures are displayed on the augmented reality glasses.

Although the KTMB does not specify the origin of the helmets, there is a good chance that they are those manufactured by the Chinese company KC Wearable.

According to the latter, the thermal scanning helmet would be accurate to within 0.3 degrees.

The interest of these helmets had already been questioned since some people with the coronavirus are asymptomatic.

Generalized temperature measurement is therefore not the ultimate solution to fight against the spread of the virus.

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  • Coronavirus

  • Covid 19

  • Health

  • Artificial intelligence

  • High-Tech

  • Augmented reality

  • Malaysia