Thermal imaging is hot—here are photographs of a fevered time:
Thermal camera registers the temperature of a customer entering a City Farmers Market supermarket in Duluth, Georgia, March 26.
One solution for reopening shopping centers, workplaces, transportation hubs—and schools—is heat screening technology that can see who has a fever. But will that keep us safe and stop another lockdown, or is it just another coronavirus boom business?camera that can measure the heat—or infrared radiation—that an object gives off was invented in 1929.
While the technology can only sense heat and not the virus—fever is a typical though inconsistent symptom of Covid-19—that hasn’t slowed down sales. Early reports project the global thermal scanner market to grow by nearly $2 billion in the next four years. Leading manufacturers such as FLIR Systems, which counts the U.S. Army, Amazon, Wynn Resorts and General Motors as clients, have already gotten a boost; its shares popped 31% in the last month.
Hospital staff conducts tests on “Mitra,”, a robot equipped with a thermal camera to screen patients for Covid-19 at Fortis hospital in Bangalore, India, May 2.Demonstration of a thermal imaging system using copters to find people violating self-isolation order in Vladivostok, Russia, April 3.Thermal imaging camera system is used to test immigrant agricultural workers in Salinas, California, April 28.
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