The company developed its Human Body Temperature Monitoring System (HBTMS) in response to the need to restrict the spread of the deadly SARS outbreak in 2003, and it was used successfully for mass screening in public places such as airports, ports and terminals.
Such precautions are in line with the warning about bird flu issued by the World Health Organization, which has called for heightened monitoring and surveillance of cases and welcomed initiatives on epidemiologic investigation.
Easy to set up and operate, HBTMS is non-invasive and can assist in monitoring and detecting a significant rise in the skin surface temperature (usually the face), which is typically associated with a person running a high fever.
It is based around a miniature on-line thermal imaging camera system the FTI MV, or its ruggedised, compact version the FTI MINI. Both use the latest uncooled Microbolometer detector technology for a combination of high performance, robustness, small size and affordable price.
They are complemented by the application-specific Human Body Temperature Monitoring software, the latest of Land’s PC-based range of thermal image processing systems.
