Auto Temperature and Mask Scanning Entry System

Abstract

Now that many shops, offices and institutions are re-opening again after the Corona lockdown, many businesses are faced with the need to provide the best possible protection for their staff and customers. Face masks and body temperature checks play an important part in the protection effort. While this is already done routinely and at a large scale at airports or railway stations, many businesses and institutions are struggling to meet the challenge. Face mask monitoring often requires additional staff resources. At the same time, body temperature checks by staff come with certain risks in terms of hygiene and data privacy. In this project, we introduce an affordable IoT-based solution aiming to increase COVID-19 indoor safety, covering several relevant aspects: 1) contactless temperature sensing 2) mask detection. Contactless temperature sensing subsystem relies on Arduino Uno using infrared sensor or thermal camera, while mask detection and social distancing check are performed by leveraging computer vision techniques on camera- equipped computer.