The “helmets smart” are already used in Dubai, China and Italy. The authorities of Bombay, the indian city most affected, the are now using them also.
This is the indian city most affected by the pandemic of sars coronavirus. So, to combat the outbreak of cases in the densely populated slum areas of the financial capital of the country, the authorities of Bombay have announced “helmets smart”.
These helmets are used to measure the temperature of dozens of people per minute, a record time. They could become the key to stop the Covid-19 in this sprawling city of 18 million inhabitants. “Four helmets “smart”, with an estimated value of 600,000 rupees (approximately 7,000 euros), have been offered to the authorities of Bombay and the nearby city of Pune, both restricted to the fight against the pandemic.
“The traditional methods of screening are time-consuming. You go into a slum of 20,000 people and it takes you three hours to track 300 people,” said Neelu Jain, a volunteer of the NGO Bharatiya Jain Sanghatana. “But when you use these headphones, all you have to do is to ask people to leave their homes, put you in front of them and you can track 6,000 people in two hours and a half”, she continued.
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“helmets smart” are already used in Dubai, China and Italy, since may. “Our colleague is able to view people at 7 meters distance. It has a crosshair over his left eye that uses the techniques of augmented reality and immediately gets the temperature of the person who is in front of it. This is not a camera filming, it is a thermal imaging camera,” explained Ivan Bassato, the chief operating officer of the airport of Rome, to Franceinfo. He assured that there was “no problem for the protection of personal data”.
Nearly 1.2 million cases in India
India became on Friday the third nation to cross the one million mark of detected cases of Covid-19, after the United States and Brazil : almost 1.2 million cases have been diagnosed in this country. But many experts believe this figure is much lower than the reality, because the rate of screening remains low. More than 28 000 patients have died. The State of Maharashtra (west), where Bombay and its slums, is the most affected, in front of New Delhi and the Tamil Nadu (south).
India had largely lifted the containment measures to boost its economy. But in recent weeks, many States in the country that has 1.3 billion people have reimposed restrictions in the face of the explosion of cases of the disease, raising fears of congestion of health systems.
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