A Project Report Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements of the Award the Degree of Master of Science in Embedded and Mobile Systems of The Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology
In medicine, high body temperature is a symptom that characterize an abnormity of human
body. By checking body temperature, it allows doctors to well monitor the effectiveness of
treatment and also can show that human health is not normal. During pandemic period like
COVID-19, high temperature was a sign that allows a doctor to recommend people to pass to
COVID-19 test in order to ensure their conditions. However, most of existing system required
human interaction while social distance was one of measures taken by World Health
Organization (WHO). In COVID-19 pandemic people are afraid to travel because they think
that they can be contaminated. Airport considered first to check if passengers have a normal
body temperature or not as is the first symptom of COVID-19 even if they have their COVID
test certificate. However, the existing system which was used to do this exercise of body
temperature sampling was not fair because it could be away of contamination. Scrum Agile
software development method has been used from the requirements phase to test and Validation
of the developed system. To come out of the problem settled, a thermal Camera based
Continuous Body Temperature Measurement system for Pandemic Emergencies has been
developed. This system is contactless of body temperature sampling in real time. Passengers
are required to pass in corridor to the waiting room where the system is implemented and
measure everyone who pass in. when a high body temperature more than 38 is detected, the
system alert airport staff in charge by sending notification with a picture of the person with
high temperature. Temperature of passengers to the airport has to be sampled without contact,
or line up in real time. The developed system through its options gives the possibility to
administrators to generate report, to produce an alarm when high temperature detected which
were absent in existing system. It has been an answer for time management, minimization of
errors when writing report and increased health security. The system has been liked by
passengers and administration at different borders and airport of Burundi.