Low Cost Design of Non-Contact Thermometry for Diagnosis and Monitoring

The novel coronavirus pandemic has created the need for employee health monitoring and diagnosis in the workplace as one of the measures. The authors have attempted to design a non-contact thermometry device to create an open-source design that is simultaneously inexpensive. Such a device can be manufactured and deployed in a wide variety of economically challenged areas. The first iteration of a working design is summarized in this paper. Future work will include design customizations for cost-savings, accuracy, and precision improvements and considerations such as design for manufacturability and repairability.