Infrared cameras that detect fever are quite intelligent

Japanese often come up with ideas we don’t even think feasible. Would you have ever thought of installing fever detecting cameras at airports, if you were asked about it before reading about this here? Never, yeah! In event of Japan’s ongoing war on germs, however, the arrival terminal of Tokyo’s Narita International Airport has got an infrared camera designed to spot people with fevers. Now, that’s some way to fight germs in the common place of infections.

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The camera identifies individuals based on the body temperature (hotter than normal), whereby, the suspected ones can be pulled out aside and questioned before being medicated by the Narita doctors or referred to the nearest hospital for routine tests. This infrared camera technology has potential and can be used in many other applications to understand body temperatures to initiate treatment. But would this intervention create a ruckus with people in urgency to board flights? Thoughts?

Via: LaughingSquid/CrunchGear