Chengdu, China — Model EIRI-M1 is specially designed for remote monitoring and detecting of elevated body temperature in crowded situations.

It combines advanced technology in infrared sensing, optoelectronics, computerized data/graphic processing and infor5mation technology to deliver a high performance infrared system for mass thermography.

Employing the latest uncooled FPA detector, EIRI-M1 offers exceptional temperature resolution, outstanding spatial resolution, powerful image processing and long term continuous operation capabilities.

It can rapidly and unobtrusively screen out suspicious febrile individuals without hindrance to the flow of traffic of the targeted crowd.

Applications
EIRI-M1 is widely applied to body temperature monitoring in congestive areas with large general population volume under high throughput, such as train stations, bus stations, ferries, airport, hospitals, department stores, government buildings, business buildings, and other related places.

It is an ideal & professional fever screen infrared thermal camera system.

Features

• Non-contact and non-invasive temperature measurement
• Rapid temperature measuring time: no more than 0.1 second
• Precise temperature measurement: ±0.2°C within measuring distance range 3~5M
• Automatic calibration system to adjust for changes in ambient temperature for continuous accuracy
• EIRI-M1 is designed especially for body temperature measurement with extreme precision in the range of +20°C to +50°C
• Able to monitor large volume, fast moving crowds
• Automatically tracking and reporting highest temperature in targeted population
• Automatic audio and visual warming system to alert operators when targets within a pre-set temperature range are detected
• Automatic exclusions of targets that exhibit abnormal high temperature
• Supplemented with a visible spectrum CCD camera for accurate target identification

Eluox Automation
Add: #401, F4, No.68, Huaishu Street, Jinniu District, Chengdu, Sichuan 610031
China

Tel: 0086 159 28 118 226
Email: eluox@yahoo.com
Web: www.eluox.com

Why such a series?

This series of stories highlights the suppliers of Temperature measurement devices intended and specially designed for screening people for elevated body temperature, a likely indicator of fever and possible an infection, such as SARS, Avian Flu, Swine Flu, Dengue and others.

We do this for several reasons:

1. Most people are unskilled in selection and use of Infrared Thermal Imagers and thermometers. Consequently there are often serious mistakes made in both choosing and using such devices. We feel it is important to use our knowledge of them to try to save us from those who rush to judgment on technical matters without adequate input and thought. We are highlighting equipment suppliers who make devices tailored for this use as evidenced by product details on their web pages. (This is not an endorsement of those suppliers but rather an information resource to help cull out those who have some experience and products intended for this use.)

2. Please be aware there are now some international standards for these devices, their performance, and introductory standardized practices for their use. You can get the best help in selecting and using them, we believe. from experts at your National Measurement Institute (NMI) who specialize in the infrared field. There is a list of all the NMIs in the world at the website of the International Bureau of Weights & Measures (Le Bureau international des Poids et Mesures – BIPM) and a selected list on www.TempSensor.net.

3. Some vendors are more careful and experienced than others and we recommend that you check the experts at more than one of them before making any decisions plus run your views past the NMI experts before finalizing them.

4. Although the use of these devices doesn’t directly detect infection or all who are infected, it has been demonstrated that their careful use and selection during the SARS crisis of 2003 can help screen for and locate some who have the illness. The individuals then get more rapid treatment and are quarantined to reduce their possible effect on others. (See the SARS pages on www.temperatures.com for some details, reference stories and article links)

5. Yes, there were undoubtedly false negative as well as false positives in earlier uses. There will always likely be some of both. However, misuse, mostly though improvised practices and hasty, ill considered equipment choices, will increase the probability of more false negatives.

6. An effort to finalize ISO Standards for equipment performance and use will go a long way to improving the situation. Until a viable set of standards, developed by world experts are in use, we shall see continued mis-specification and misapplication of equipment and subsequent squandering of resources, in our opinion.

Note In late 2008, IEC published the standard: IEC 80601-2-59 Ed. 1.0 “Medical electrical equipment – Part 2-59: Particular requirements for the basic safety and essential performance of screening thermographs for human febrile temperature screening”. It provides many performance and calibration requirements for devices used in this application.

In March 2009, the ISO standard, ISO/TR 13154:2009 “Medical electrical equipment — Deployment, implementation and operational guidelines for identifying febrile humans using a screening thermograph”, was published. It bears directly on this use, and while not perfect, does represent a major milestone completed since SPRING Singapore began their effort to create workable standards in 2003.

The standards may be purchased and downloaded online at: www.iso.org/iso/iso_catalogue/catalogue_tc/catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=51236 and webstore.ansi.org RecordDetail.aspx?sku=IEC+80601-2-59+Ed.+1.0+b%3a2008 respectively.
(Kudos to John Snell of Snell Infrared for advising about the links for the online availability of these standards)