First-year students and lecturers at the University of Technology VNUHCM have developed an IoT-integrated automatic body temperature measurement and hand-washing machine for COVID-19 prevention and control. — Photo courtesy of the university HCMCity (VNS/VNA) - Universities, health institutions and IT companies across the country have been developing a number of technologies and devices to help combatCOVID-19.
A team of first-year students and lecturers at the University of TechnologyVNUHCM in HCM City has, forinstance, developed an IoT-integrated automatic body temperature measurementand hand washing device.
Dr Vo Thanh Hang, head of the Bach Khoa Green Innovation Club at theuniversity, said: “Thermal scanners at airports are very expensive for theuniversity to use. Manual body temperature measuring devices do not store dataafter measuring. So students had the idea of developing an IoT-integratedautomatic body temperature measurement and hand washing machine that can beused at the university.”
“With its AI application, the machine can identify faces with masks and helmets.Students also programmed voice for interaction.”
Thecurrent version of the machine has one more function: that of extracting datato provide to both the university and the city Centre for Diseases Control andPrevention.
“The machine’s practicality is high in terms of COVID-19 prevention andcontrol,” said Hang.
The machine won the second prize in the university’s annual Science andTechnology Symposium for Office for International Study Programmes Students.
Many other companies and the National Institute of Occupational andEnvironmental Health in Hanoi have developed COVID-19 sample collection boothsthat avoid direct contact.
They are being used at health facilities in HCM City, Hanoi and Bac Giang province.Otherwise, medical staff need to wear protective clothes from head to toe evenin the summer heat.
The National Institute of Occupational and Environmental Health has created twosmall fans that generate wind inside protective clothes, helping reduce heat.
The fans are attached to the protective clothes, the institute said.
Many people in HCM City receive calls from phone numbers 1800.1119 and01800.1119 seeking information about COVID symptoms and travel to areas withthe disease.
The Centre for Diseases Control and Prevention said the city is using a roboticassistant to automatically make phone calls to update data about health in thecommunity and detect and report suspected cases so that officials could takesamples for testing in time.
The Department of Information and Communications has developed a digital mapfor providing information about quarantine areas and those under lockdown andthe COVID situation in the city to the public.
On June 21 the department put up a new version of a digital map at //bando.tphcm.gov.vn to replacethe existing one.
It has 3D images to ensure easier use and a better experience for people.
It also has added functions like rapidly tracing, gathering, seeking, andsharing COVID information with many sites through QR codes, social media ande-mails.
Using the map, users can find optimal travel routes to avoid COVID-hit areasand limit going to high-risk transmission ones.
Lecturers, staff, and students at universities throughout the country areproducing hand sanitisers.
The Mien Dong University of Technology in Dong Nai province is producing 4,000bottles of hand sanitisers totally in line with the World HealthOrganisation’s guidelines and tested at the Pasteur Institute in HCM City.
Currently they are used at the university’s dormitory, which is aCOVID isolation site./.
A team of first-year students and lecturers at the University of TechnologyVNUHCM in HCM City has, forinstance, developed an IoT-integrated automatic body temperature measurementand hand washing device.
Dr Vo Thanh Hang, head of the Bach Khoa Green Innovation Club at theuniversity, said: “Thermal scanners at airports are very expensive for theuniversity to use. Manual body temperature measuring devices do not store dataafter measuring. So students had the idea of developing an IoT-integratedautomatic body temperature measurement and hand washing machine that can beused at the university.”
“With its AI application, the machine can identify faces with masks and helmets.Students also programmed voice for interaction.”
Thecurrent version of the machine has one more function: that of extracting datato provide to both the university and the city Centre for Diseases Control andPrevention.
“The machine’s practicality is high in terms of COVID-19 prevention andcontrol,” said Hang.
The machine won the second prize in the university’s annual Science andTechnology Symposium for Office for International Study Programmes Students.
Many other companies and the National Institute of Occupational andEnvironmental Health in Hanoi have developed COVID-19 sample collection boothsthat avoid direct contact.
They are being used at health facilities in HCM City, Hanoi and Bac Giang province.Otherwise, medical staff need to wear protective clothes from head to toe evenin the summer heat.
The National Institute of Occupational and Environmental Health has created twosmall fans that generate wind inside protective clothes, helping reduce heat.
The fans are attached to the protective clothes, the institute said.
Many people in HCM City receive calls from phone numbers 1800.1119 and01800.1119 seeking information about COVID symptoms and travel to areas withthe disease.
The Centre for Diseases Control and Prevention said the city is using a roboticassistant to automatically make phone calls to update data about health in thecommunity and detect and report suspected cases so that officials could takesamples for testing in time.
The Department of Information and Communications has developed a digital mapfor providing information about quarantine areas and those under lockdown andthe COVID situation in the city to the public.
On June 21 the department put up a new version of a digital map at //bando.tphcm.gov.vn to replacethe existing one.
It has 3D images to ensure easier use and a better experience for people.
It also has added functions like rapidly tracing, gathering, seeking, andsharing COVID information with many sites through QR codes, social media ande-mails.
Using the map, users can find optimal travel routes to avoid COVID-hit areasand limit going to high-risk transmission ones.
Lecturers, staff, and students at universities throughout the country areproducing hand sanitisers.
The Mien Dong University of Technology in Dong Nai province is producing 4,000bottles of hand sanitisers totally in line with the World HealthOrganisation’s guidelines and tested at the Pasteur Institute in HCM City.
Currently they are used at the university’s dormitory, which is aCOVID isolation site./.
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