Naval Dockyard (ND), Mumbai has developed its own Infrared Radiation (IR)-based handheld temperature sensor to screen people at gates. The meaning should screen a large number of Naval staff at the yard`s entrance gates the the load on the gate`s safety sentries.

 

 

♦ The instrument was manufactured under Rs.1000 through in-house resources.

♦ The accuracy of the instrument is 0.02 deg Celsius. 

♦ The non-contact thermometer has an IR and an LED display integrated with a microcontroller that runs on a 9V battery. 

♦ The instrument will screen a large number of Naval personnel at the entry gates of the yard thereby reducing the load on the security sentries at the gate.

♦ The low-cost instrument has the capability to scale up production of these if required towards which sourcing of the components is in progress.

 

 

Over 20,000 personnel enter the premises of the Naval Dockyard of Western Naval Command (WNC) every day. Inorder to prevent the spread of COVID-19 within the yard and the Western Fleet, initial screening of the Navy personnel who enter the dockyard was very important.

The primary method to screen a probable COVID-19 infected person/patient is to check the body temperature by a non-contact thermometer. In the view of the COVID-19 outbreak, the non-contact thermometers and temperature guns have become scarce and are being sold at a very high cost in the country. In order to overcome the scarcity and requirement of large numbers, ND has designed and developed its own handheld IR based temperature sensor.