Covid-19: Coimbatore company unveils health monitoring cum attendance recorder system

COIMBATORE: A Coimbatore-based automation company says it has unveiled a health monitoring system which can also act as an attendance recorder system.
The system can do away with the need of security personnel at offices checking every entrant’s body temperature and then recording the entrant’s name, phone number, address and body temperature details.
The automation company developed the system over the last three months.
“While an employee’s details can be fed into the system, the system can scan his or her RF id from their id card, along with scanning their body temperature when they enter the office. It can scan a guest entrant’s Aadhaar card or driving licence and record their entry,” says one of the team of eight developers who developed the product, S Loganathan.
“The system will give a low alarm if the body temperature is normal, but a loud alarm when the temperature is high,” he said.
While employees with fever can be detected, guests too can be traced by government officials if they leave the premises after being denied entry. “Since their Aadhaar card or driving licence is scanned when trying to enter, their address or phone number can easily be retrieved, allowing officials to trace them for isolation of testing,” said Loganathan.
Further, a person with normal body temperature when walking out of the system, can stretch out hands for sanitization. “All the entry data along with body temperature will automatically be stored in the cloud for decades together and can be accessed even via a mobile phone app,” said Loganathan.
The firm says the system which costs Rs 70,000, would be useful in offices with high people movement like government offices.