Magnity Intelligent Infrared Screening

System for Fever Detection

March, 2020
Background

COVID-19 outbreak occurred in China's Wuhan in late 2019, and the epidemic
spread continuously, not only in China but also in the world, forming a global trend. As
of March 13, 2020, WHO released data showing that there were 80,991 confirmed cases
(11 new cases), 3,180 deaths (7 new cases) in China; 51,767 confirmed cases (7,488
new cases), 1,775 deaths (335 Cases) outside China.
Fever is a typical COVID-19 infection according to clinical manifestations.
According to China's experience, timely detection of the population, detection of
personnel with abnormally high body temperature, and further detection, isolation,
treatment and other measures will be very helpful for the prevention and control of the
epidemic. But how to screen large-scale population for abnormal body temperature in
public places?
1. Measurement mode of axillary thermometer or forehead thermometer
(1) It usually takes 3 minutes / person (or 30 seconds / person) to use an axillary
thermometer (or a forehead thermometer ) for detection. The screening time is long and
the efficiency is low. Using this scheme in public places with more people, such as
airports and railway stations, will cause a large area of people to stay, artificially create
a large-scale gathering scene, and increase the probability of mutual infection.
(2) Using an axillary thermometer or a forehead thermometer for detection, the
detection personnel will face a higher risk of infection if they are in close contact with
the detected personnel.
2. Measurement mode of infrared thermal imager
(1) Using ordinary infrared thermal imager to detect, the detection personnel can
keep a safe distance from the detected personnel, and the risk of infection of the
detection personnel is low.
(2) The ordinary infrared thermal imager can recognize the abnormal high
temperature in the area and give an alarm, but it can't recognize the forehead of the face
automatically, and it is easy to be interfered by the non-human high temperature objects,
so the false alarm rate is high.
 3. Intelligent Infrared Screening System for Fever Detection
Shanghai Magnity Electronic Technology Co., Ltd. was founded by Dr. Shen
Chongfei, who graduated from Princeton University in USA. Magnity Intelligent
Infrared Screening System (MIISS) for Fever Detection developed and designed by
the company combines the accurate temperature measurement equipment of infrared
thermal imager and AI algorithm. On the one hand, the non-contact temperature
measurement method is adopted to reduce the risk of infection of detection personnel;
on the other hand, the forehead position of human is automatically identified, the
forehead temperature is marked, and the abnormal personnel are alarmed. The false
alarm probability is low. Passing by the MIISS, people can be screened quickly, the
body temperature is measured quickly, so that people can pass through the public places
quickly.
During the Spring Festival in China, a large number of people went to Shanghai,
and the MIISS was deployed in Shanghai Hongqiao Railway Station and Hongqiao
Airport. A total of 1.22 million people were detected and 101 people with abnormal
temperature were found, making a huge contribution to prevent the spread of the
epidemic to Shanghai. In order to improve the ability of public places to prevent
and control the epidemic, we suggest to deploy MIISS in airports, railway stations,
subways, hospitals, schools, shopping malls, office buildings and other densely
populated areas in major cities around the world.
I Magnity Intelligent Infrared Screening System (MIISS) for
Fever Detection

1. Composition of the system

(1) Hardware: Computer(windows 10) and infrared thermal imager MAG32 for
human body temperature measurement;
(2) Software: Thermogroup;
(3) Other accessories: tripod, power supply, 12V power adapter, network cable.
2. Technical Specification of Infrared thermal imager: MAG32

MAG32

Detector

Detector Type Focal Plane Array, Uncooled Microbolometer

Pixel Resolution 384×288

Spectral Band 8 ～ 14μm

Imaging Performance

Field of View (FOV)

Spatial Resolution FOV/384

Thermal Sensitivity (NETD) <60mK@30 ℃（86℉）

Focusing 0.3m ～ ∞

Maximum Frame Rate 50Hz

Measurement

Temperature Ranges 20~45 ℃(68℉~113℉)

Accuracy <±0.5 ℃（±0.9℉） for fever detection

Radiance Correction 0.01-1.0

Background Temperature User Input Environmental Temperature

Correction Correction

Atmosphere Transmission
User Input Distance and Humidity Correction
Correnction
 MAG32

Real Time Temperature Display, User Defined

Temperature Measurement Mode
Regions of Interest

User Defined Alarming Threshold, User

Automatic Alarming
Defined Points of Interest

Imaging Processing

9 Palettes, including Grayscale, Grayscale

Palettes
inverted, Hot metal, etc.

Manual/Automatic Histogram Balancing/Detail

Image Enhancement
Enhancement

Data Storage Image, Video, Temperature Data

Environmental

Operating Temperature -20 ℃～ +60 ℃（-4℉～+140 ℉）

Storage Temperature -40 ℃～ +80 ℃（-40℉～+176℉）

Humidity ≦ 85%(Non-Condensing)

Encapsulation IP54

Physical Characteristics

Power Supply 12V DC

Dimensions 62mm×64mm×62mm ( Infrared Lens Excluded )

Size 0.2kg ( Infrared Lens Excluded )

Signal Interface 100M Ethernet

Video Output PAL/NTSC

I/O Interface 1 Input, 1 Output

Serial RS232

Software Included

Infrared Lens, Power Supply, Installation CD,

Accessories
User Manual

3. Thermogroup
 (1) Automatic face tracking
Thermogroup uses powerful algorithms to automatically recognize the face in the
temperature measurement area and mark the highest temperature in the face area.

(2) Set auto alarm

Thermogroup can manually set the high temperature alarm threshold in the temperature

measurement area, for example, it is set to alarm automatically when the temperature exceeds

37.3 ℃. You can also check "automatic alarm threshold", when the picture appears high

temperature, the thermal imager will automatically send out an alarm.

(3) Automatic personnel statistics

In Thermogroup, click the "human body temperature measurement" function key
on the right side of the screen, and check the "display statistics panel" to display the
accumulated number of temperature measurement and record the number of abnormal
temperature measurement.
 (4) Set up interference shielding
For the high temperature interference in the temperature measurement area, it can
be shielded by polygon tool. Click the button indicated by the arrow in the figure, click
the left mouse button to select the area to be shielded in the screen, and click the right
mouse button to finish.

(5) Temperature display mode

 At a constant environment temperature, after a long period of static heat balance,
the temperature difference between body temperature and forehead temperature is
basically constant. According to the experimental data, the MIISS has established a
model of forehead temperature to body temperature under different ambient
temperatures. Thermogroup has two modes of temperature display mode, which are
body temperature mode and forehead temperature mode. Click ‘body temperature
measurement’ on the right side of the screen to choose freely.

The displayed value measured of the same person is 34.1 ℃(93.38 ℉) in forehead

temperature mode and 36.9 ℃(98.42 ℉) in body temperature mode.

4. Installation and network setting methods

(1) Fixed thermal imager: A. fixed on a common tripod, which can support the
movement of temperature measurement points, or B. fixed on the wall.
(2) Connect the thermal imager to the laptop: connect with the ordinary network
cable.
(3) Laptop network settings: IP address is set to 192.168.1. X (x is any number).
Figure 1: Use tripod to install and deploy MIISS in Hongqiao Railway Station
III Program Cases

1. Installation and deployment of MIISS in transportation hubs

The MIISS is deployed in Shanghai Hongqiao Railway Station, Hongqiao Airport
and Shanghai Metro, with a total of more than 300 thermal imagers for human body
temperature measurement. Among them, from January 28, 2020 to February 7, 2020, a
total of 1.22 million people were measured at Hongqiao transportation hub, and 101
people were found with abnormal temperature. The MIISS made a great contribution
to prevent the spread of the epidemic to Shanghai.

Figure 2: installation and deployment of MIISS in Hongqiao Airport

2. Installation and deployment of MIISS in hospitals

The MIISS is deployed in many key hospitals in Shanghai and other places. It has
made great contribution to the normal operation of the hospital by finding the fever
personnel in time and transferring them to the fever clinic to avoid cross infection of
the virus.
 Figure 3: installation and deployment of MIISS in Shanghai Huashan Hospital

3. Installation and deployment of MIISS in shopping malls, office buildings and

other public places
The MIISS is deployed in many shopping malls and office buildings in Shanghai
and other public places, through timely temperature detection of personnel, to avoid
cross infection of the virus and ensure the resumption of work.

Figure 4: installation and deployment of MIISS in Industrial Bank Building