China has recently adopted a ‘smart helmet’ featuring infrared temperature detector and code-read cameras to spot fever people in crowds accurately.

Police officers in China have started to wear AI-powered smart helmets which can automatically take pedestrians’ temperatures as they patrol the streets amid the coronavirus crisis.

The high-tech headgear has an infrared camera, which will sound an alarm if anyone in a radius of five metres (16 feet) has a fever – a common symptom of the disease.

Equipped with the facial-recognition technology, it can also display the pedestrian’s personal information, such as their name, on a virtual screen inside.

Recall that on the 7th of January, officials announced that they had identified a new virus, according to the WHO.

The novel virus was named 2019-nCoV and was identified as belonging to the coronavirus family, which includes SARS and the common cold.

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They put this method in place to control the coronavirus epidemic.

See Tweet below:

Smart helmets featuring infrared temperature detector and code-read cameras were adapted in China to spot fever people in crowds accurately as a method to control the novel #coronavirus epidemic. pic.twitter.com/YWgWk1atUk

— People’s Daily, China (@PDChina) March 5, 2020