COVID 19 has disrupted our lives and economy leaving us wondering if life will ever return to normal. People spaces like offices, houses of worship, stores, factories, schools, theaters, sports stadiums, and restaurants have all but shut down in order to maintain social distancing and limit the spread of the virus.
As businesses and institutions reopen to get our economy back on track, their first priority is to ensure the safety of employees and customers. Government reopening guidelines include screening people for elevated temperature. While many methods and technologies exist to take temperature readings there are few practical noncontact and noninvasive methods to screen people in public places. Screening for fever is not foolproof and not an indicator of infectious disease. Only a medical professional can make a diagnostic decision of disease.
Bioscan technologies offers noncontact elevated skin temperature scanning devices for use in access control security systems and public entry pre-scanning systems combining facial recognition and detection, card access entry, and skin temperature scanning to safeguard the health and wellbeing of employees, visitors, and patrons.
Disclaimer: Please note the thermal cameras and infrared devices listed here are for elevated skin temperature screening only. They do not detect COVID 19 or any pathogens nor can they identify virus carriers such as asymptotic people who do not exhibit any symptoms.
These devices are not clinical-grade, FDA approved thermometers. They are to be be used for initial fast screening of people for elevated skin temperatures, one person at a time.
Skin temperature measurement from these devices should not be solely or primarily relied upon to diagnose or exclude a diagnosis of disease.
Elevated skin temperature as detected by these devices must be confirmed with a secondary noncontact infrared thermometer (NCIT) or FDA approved clinical-grade contact thermometer.
BIOS01 is a non-contact skin temperature scanner and access control device using AI-based face detection and recognition to identify an employee and perform an IR thermal scan on the forehead to detect if the person has elevated skin temperature. The device generates both audio and visual alerts that notify staff when the configured temperature threshold is exceeded and will send an email to a designated mailbox.
BIOS01 can be configured to measure temperature or measure temperature AND grant access to known individuals using face recognition. The device can be integrated with Weignad and card access control systems. Please note: the FDA recommends that elevated temperature is confirmed using an approved FDA thermometer.
BIOS01 uses a German-made Heimann 32x32 thermopile sensor array that delivers accuracy temperature readings, +-0.3C / 0.54F, at a range of 1-3 feet and supports a temperature adjusting field to compensate for
AI-based facial detection is used to position the user for scanning their temperature from the forehead and to identify the person as an employee, visitor or stranger. This feature is useful for workplaces where you want to identify your employees and take their temperature measurements. This information can also be recorded in a cloud-based or an internal server-based central management database system.
The unit is perfect for office buildings, factories, farms, educational institutions, retirement homes and any place where traditional access control systems are used to provide access to facilities.
Key Features:
AI based facial recognition for user identification
BIOS01 supports dual binocular high-resolution cameras that perform fast and accurate facial recognition. You can recognize employees, visitors and strangers and accordingly define policies that work for your institution. The system supports up to 30,000 faces on the tablet or unlimited faces on the central server.
IR Thermal Body Temperature scanner for accurate measurement
BIOS01 German-made Heimann sensor is accurate to accuracy of +/- 0.3C (0.54F) at a range of 1-3 feet. Using facial detection technology, the thermal sensor takes readings from the forehead area.
Attendance Management
The unit supports attendance management capability where employee and staff can log their clock in and clock out times. All the times are logged along with the temperature record in the backend database for reporting & analysis. Facial recognition or NFC card is used to identify the person.
Integration with door or turnstile gates for automated access
The device supports multiple interfaces such as Weigand, serial, USB and ethernet for integration and control of turnstile gates and doors. WIFI is also supported.
Cloud based management
The device can be fully managed by both public or private cloud. The Remote Management System provides administration and monitoring capabilities for devices that are deployed in the facility. The Application can be deployed in a public cloud or on a server hosted on the local network.
Use cases
a) Standalone single person temperature scan.
In this case, a person can be directed to the unit to scan temperature only. A temperature alert is generated on the unit with an audible alarm when elevated body temperature is detected. There is no need to connect to the network for this use case unless an email is desired.
b) Standalone single person temperature scan with face recognition to identify employees/staff or visitors. In this case, facial recognition can identify the user as a registered employee or as a visitor. In addition, you can also record, and store temperature measurements taken for each person in the database for further analysis. Network connectivity to the back end Remote Management System is required.
c) Integration with turnstile or doors for automated access. You can deploy the unit so users with elevated skin temperatures are locked out from entry to facility. The device supports Integration with turnstile or doors via Weigand, RS485, ethernet interfaces.
Pricing for this device starts at $1,250 for SMB version, a standalone unit that situations where remote management and face recognition is not needed. Enterpise version at $1,350 supports face recognition and remote management including visitor management.
BIOS04 is a high performance temperature scanner designed for fast targeted screening of people in high traffic situations such as airports, government facilities, office buildings, schools, factories, sports stadiums, etc. The unit can also be deployed in school buses, transit buses to scan passengers as they enter.
BIOS04 is easy to install, set-up, and use. It's a terrific choice for manned temperature screening stations.
BIOS04 uses face detection technology to target the face for a more accurate temperature measurement than more expensive thermal cameras that create a thermal image of all objects in their field of view.
BIOS04 generates audio alarms and displays the alarm on its screen when a person with elevated temperature passes by. This can alert the security staff to quickly intervene and take additional action such as directing the person to a screening room for further check.
Key Features
Uses FLIR System Inc. camera module for facial detection and taking accurate temperature reading (+-0.5C) at range of 3-4 feet.
Standalone unit with an 8" display for alerting both visual and audio.
Mounting attachments to security gates, school buses etc. Can also be mounted on a vesa floor stand or on wall.
Ideal for government installations as the unit is made in Taiwan.
Uses black body for accurate calibration.
Pricing
Starts at $3500 for the unit including the black body heat source.
The BIOS02 portable thermal body scanner is specifically designed to rapidly scan body temperature using infrared thermal sensing of multiple areas of the body. The unit is a repurposed industrial thermal scanner that has been specifically factory calibrated for measuring skin temperatures. The unit is typically deployed on a tripod connected to a PC with a large monitor for viewing the images in real-time. Audible alerts are generated whenever the device detects high temperature.
The unit can be operated as a handheld device or mounted on a tripod and connected to a PC. As people walk by the unit one at a time, the device can measure their body temperature at a distance of 3 feet and generate an alarm when it detects an elevated body temperature indicating possible fever or infection. This allows staff to quickly isolate the person to a security station or for more analysis.
The thermal scanner is perfect for screening people or staff in places such as:
Being portable, it can also be carried by security personnel to scan people in crowded areas or by bus drivers to scan students or passengers as they enter the bus.
Key Features
Long range body temperature scanning
The unit is calibrated to measure body/skin temperature at a distance of 3 feet.
Fast screening & alerting
Typical deployment is to screen one person at a time as they walk in front of the device. The device detects and sounds an alarm within a second enabling fast, accurate and efficient processing of people and preventing lines.
More accurate temperature measurements must be conducted as a follow up to truly ascertain that the person has fever by using medical FDA approved thermometers.
Handheld or tripod mounted
The unit is battery operated and can be operated as a handheld device for some use cases. However, the most common deployment is on a tripod attached to a monitor at entry ways or doorways to facilities.
Pricing
Pricing for this device starts at $1250 that includes the device, application software.
BioScan Technologies’s BIOS03 is a powerful long-range IR thermal camera scanner with AI based facial detection technology that is designed to track and screen multiple people simultaneously. The device uses infrared radiation technology to measure body temperature and generate alerts when the temperature is at an elevated level.
The unit is deployed on a tripod and connected to a PC with a large display monitor for viewing images in real-time. The data analysis software supplied with the product allows you to perform more sophisticated analysis on the images by selecting the candidates and getting more focused measurements.
While the device can scan upto 30 people simultaneously with an accuracy of +-0.5C over a distance of 5 feet, for best results it is recommended to be used to scan one person at a time as they are walking by.
The unit is designed for public places where large groups of users enter a facility such as airports, office entry ways, restaraunts, malls, grocery stores, schools and office buildings.
Key Features
Long range facial recognition based body temperature scanning
The unit is caliberated to measure body/skin temperature at a distance of 5 feet. The IR thermal body temperature scanner measures multiple data points to get a more accurate temperature reading preventing false negatives.
A key feature is that the thermal camera uses AI to locate and detect their faces and take temperature measurements from the facial area that provides a more accurate temperature reading.
Fast screening & alerting
The unit is designed to track multiple people and take simultaneous measurements. However in practise during deployment, it is recommended to screen one person at a time. The device detects and sounds an alarm within a second enabling fast and effficient screening for elevated temperature levels.
However, More accurate temperature measurements must be conducted as a follow up to truly ascertain that the person has fever by using medical FDA approved thermomenters.
Easy installation & operation
The device is easliy installed with plug-n-play capabilty. You can connect the device to a PC via USB and be operational quickly.
Pricing
Pricing starts at $1899 for the thermal camera + tripod.