Chapter 2 - Internet of Things-based smart helmet to detect possible COVID-19 infections

Abstract

At the beginning of 2020, while the world was celebrating New Year’s Eve, China’s headquarter of the World Health Organization came across a case of pneumonia in the city of Wuhan, China and was termed as coronavirus. Initially the symptoms were fever, cold, and cough; so thermal screening was done that could cause infection to the medical staff. In this chapter we discuss the design of the system known as smart helmet that has the capability to detect coronavirus automatically by using thermal imaging, which is used to capture the image with less human interaction. The thermal camera technology is integrated with smart helmets and combined with Internet of Things technology for monitoring of the screening process to get the real-time data. It is equipped with facial recognition technology; it can also display personal information of the infectee, which can automatically take temperature and can detect more infectee than normal thermal screening.