Chinese police, health staff, and transport workers have been using smart helmets to monitor people for high temperatures in the fight against COVID-19. The helmets are now popping up across the world. Experts say thermal scanning can be a good way to measure for fever, but question how effective such measures would be as some people affected by COVID-19 are asymptomatic and won’t run a temperature.
Business Insider: Police are using surveillance helmets to scan people
A Fiumicino airport employee displays a "Smart-Helmet" portable thermoscanner to screen passengers and staff for COVID-19, on May 5, 2020 at Rome's Fiumicino airport during the country's lockdown aimed at curbing the spread of the COVID-19 infection, caused by the novel coronavirus.
