Combatting COVID-19 is still at the forefront of everyone’s minds, and business owners are jumping at opportunities to defend their employees from illness and keep staff and clients as healthy as possible.

One method of resisting the spread of infection is the incorporation of temperature screening cameras into your Brownsville, TX business. There are many fever cameras rushing to the market today, but the science behind these devices is still new and requires specific procedures to work correctly. Incorrect use of these solutions or their installation by anyone other than a professional leads to increased risk for your company, employees, and clients.

Keep reading to learn why simply installing a fever detection camera isn’t the answer for improving business safety during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Accuracy Discrepancies

Cameras are placed at a specific height and angle and directed towards the door. Artificial intelligence and facial recognition technologies assist in determining the temperature at the appropriate location on the face. Most cameras on the market are accurate within +/- 8 degrees. This difference is vast and could mean the difference between a healthy or an ill person receiving the OK from the fever detection camera.

Unfortunately, other factors prevent many cameras from acquiring an accurate reading, such as ambient temperature. Employees and clients need to walk from their cars in the parking lot, through the hot Texas air, then into your building. Just these few minutes of walking through 90 to 100-degree heat can affect the accuracy of the fever data collection.

Avigilon

Luckily, high-quality fever cameras are available on the market and have a smaller margin for error by design and when installed properly. Avigilon thermal camera technology can detect a person’s elevated skin temperature; this detection will signal to you the business owner that further COVID-19 screening is required.

A black body is an idealized physical body that absorbs all incident electromagnetic radiation, regardless of frequency or angle of incidence. By using a black body as a reference point for a base temperature, the thermal imager can be calibrated correctly. The black body is placed at a specific location the camera can detect and is always the same temperature. The camera software understands the color of the thermal from the black body, and all temperatures collected are calibrated based on that temperature.

Work With An Expert

Luckily, there are more accurate temperature sensing cameras on the market, and that’s why it’s so important to work with a professional company such as Circle Industries. We are at the cutting edge of technology research, and spend our time researching the latest and most accurate technologies in business security. We strive to provide our clients with the highest quality products.

If you’d like to learn more about the fever-sensing cameras Circle Industries can expertly install in your Brownsville-area business, call us today at (833) 424-7253 or connect with us using our online form. We look forward to assisting you.