Contactless Temperature Station with Local Database and SMS Confirmation

Abstract

As the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic gripped the entire world, some countries’ health infrastructure gaps became apparent. The backbone of the health care system, the health workers, experienced, never seen before increased workload, psychological and physiological tolls, and, more specifically, the risk of infection of the COVID-19 virus. One of the critical parameters in dealing with the pandemic is monitoring and quarantine. During quarantine, health workers, including frequent travelers and frontline workers, must gather vital data about patients’ health conditions with a substantial risk of infections. Included in the essential data measured by health workers is temperature. The researchers’ aim in this study is to alleviate the burden of manually taking this temperature data by making a device that can remotely measure the temperature of quarantine patients. The device will also consolidate this data in a local database through Wi-Fi and have confirmation and backup data transmission via SMS. The researcher’s objective is to reduce the risk of infection to health workers by allowing a contactless method of gathering patient temperature data and providing an alternative to manual procedures with the help of sensors, GSM, and Wi-Fi technology. Through a cross-sectional study of the prototype output of the research, the researchers could ascertain the prototype’s viability in achieving the desired performance. The results implied that the output device could give the health worker a safer and faster platform for temperature measurements.