Kerala: Thermal screening at all four airports soon

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The state government has purchased eight walk-through thermal scanners that uses artificial intelligence to be installed at four airports and one major railway station in the state.
Health, social justice and women and child development minister K K Shailaja said that the thermal scanners have been purchased as it was becoming increasingly difficult to physically test body temperatures of each individual coming out of airports and railway stations.
These will be installed at the international and domestic terminals of Thiruvananthapuram, Kochi, Kozhikode and Kannur airports and at Kozhikode railway station. The scanners can detect body temperatures of more than one individual walking through it. It can also separately detect the body temperatures of approximately 10 persons within a three-metre radius. The scanner uses infrared rays to detect the body temperatures without any physical contact.
As a person reaches about 3.2 metre of the machine, the photo and body temperature will be scanned and recorded. The artificial intelligence software within the machine differentiates between people and other equipment with higher temperature. Once the machine detects those with abnormalities in the temperature, it alerts with beeps. The scanners were purchased through Kerala Medical Services Corporation Ltd.