TSSI – Temperature Screen & Sign In
Team Members Heading link
- Jorge Cisneros
- Chris Escobar
- Jianing Liu
- Szymon Popowski
- Fabian Torres
Project Description Heading link
While preventing disease and illnesses has always been a large emphasis on safety in the workplace, the pandemic-scale spread of COVID-19 has amplified the severity of the issue many folds. Perhaps the workers at greatest risk are front-desk workers; these people are in charge of taking temperatures for incoming guests and employees to make sure the rest of the facility does not become exposed to a COVID-19 patient. Our device’s objective is to eliminate the associated risks to front-desk workers by creating an expedited, contactless, and safe way to check-in employees entering a facility. The device logs a user’s name and time checked in and out of a facility to enhance security and provide outbreak traceback. Using a QR code sent to the user’s email, the user holds up the QR code to the camera while the device processes credentials associated with the code and saves them to the database to log check-in time. However, the QR code has an expiration time to help prevent falsifying employee data. Additionally, the device aims to accurately and reliably measure the temperature of a user, between 37 and 38 degrees celsius –– the difference between standard body temperature and risk of fever. If the user is detected at 38 C or higher, an LED on the device illuminates red to notify the front desk that there is a risk of exposure. In our design, we accomplished to sign workers in with the QR code, check their temperature, and log their entry to the database.