Body temperature screening and measurement using infrared forehead thermometer (IFT), a non-contact thermometer, is an important method to prevent the spread of COVID-19 at present. However, low accuracy and unreliability of current IFT due to ambient temperature effect prevent it application in most of low-temperature environment. The aim of this study was to measure the body temperature accurately using IFT in low-temperature environment. A novel IFT with broad working temperature range and ambient temperature compensation was designed and fabricated, and the performance was evaluated. Also an ambient temperature compensation method based on Bluetooth module was introduced to improve the accuracy of body temperature measurement for the first time. The experiment results demonstrated that the laboratory indication error and repeatability in test mode of this developed IFT were all below 0.2℃ in ambient temperature range of (3~35) ℃. While the extended uncertainty for laboratory indication error was less than 0.1℃ (k=2). Compared with the contact electronic clinical thermometer, the difference of body temperature was improved within the scope of (-0.3~﹢0.3)℃ in low-temperature measurement environment. All the results showed that the IFT fabricated in this paper is sufficient and competent for body temperature screening and clinical body temperature measurement in most of low-temperature environment
The measuring cylinder calibration is entirely relied on manually reading data, which lead to high workload and poor repeatability. This research is to design an Automatic Measuring Cylinder Calibration System (AMCCS) based on digital image processing technology to finish the whole calibration process include titration of the measuring cylinder and generating calibration record. The Application of Blob analysis, template matching and optical character recognition (OCR) technology can acquire the image information of the scale and liquid level of the measuring cylinder in real time, feedback to the system, and complete the synchronous output of the record. The methodology used in this research is quantitative method where data obtained through 20 experienced engineers and AMCCS, the result shows that this system is promoted in speed, measurement repeatability, which is 35% and 33%.
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