An Alternative Body Temperature Measurement Solution: Combination of a Highly Accurate Monitoring System and a Visualized Public Health Cloud Platform

Joe-Air Jiang; Jen-Cheng Wang; Chao-Liang Hsieh; Kai-Sheng Tseng; Zheng-Wei Ye; Lin-Kuei Su; Chih-Hong Sun; Tzai-Hung Wen; Jehn-Yih Juang

doi:10.1109/JIOT.2020.3034024

An Alternative Body Temperature Measurement Solution: Combination of a Highly Accurate Monitoring System and a Visualized Public Health Cloud Platform

IEEE Internet Things J. 2020 Oct 27;8(7):5778-5793. doi: 10.1109/JIOT.2020.3034024. eCollection 2021 Apr 1.

Authors

Joe-Air Jiang^{1

2}, Jen-Cheng Wang¹, Chao-Liang Hsieh¹, Kai-Sheng Tseng¹, Zheng-Wei Ye¹, Lin-Kuei Su¹, Chih-Hong Sun³, Tzai-Hung Wen³, Jehn-Yih Juang³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Biomechatronics EngineeringNational Taiwan University Taipei 10617 Taiwan.
² Department of Medical ResearchChina Medical University Hospital, China Medical University Taichung 40447 Taiwan.
³ Department of GeographyNational Taiwan University Taipei 10617 Taiwan.

Abstract

To quickly isolate suspected cases to control the epidemics, this study proposes a body temperature monitoring system with a thermography based on the Internet of Things (IoT) architecture. The collected data are transmitted to a back-end platform via wireless communication. Using the analyzed data, the platform provides services, such as instant alerts for any anomalies, infectious disease outbreak prediction, and risk level assessment for a given area, and it will be a great help to epidemic prevention. The mean absolute percentage error and root mean square error of the proposed monitoring system under an extensive series of experiments are 0.04% and 0.0204°C, respectively. It shows that the body temperature measured by the thermal imaging sensor in the system can accurately represent the actual body temperature after specific calibrations that take the environmental temperature into account. It can also be expanded to a decision supporting system to help schools or government agencies to make proper decisions to stop the spread of infectious diseases.

Keywords: Body temperature monitoring system; Internet of Things (IoT); risk level; thermal imaging sensor.

Grants and funding

This work was supported in part by the Ministry of Science and Technology, and in part by the Council of Agriculture of the Executive Yuan, Taiwan, under the Grant MOST 105-2221-E-002-132-MY3, Grant MOST 106-3113-E-002-012, Grant MOST 107-3113-E-002-007, Grant MOST 108-2321-B-002-037, Grant MOST 108-2811-B-002-510, Grant MOST 108-2622-E-002-023-CC2, Grant MOST 108-2221-E-002-090, Grant MOST 109-2321-B-002-043, Grant MOST 109-2811-B-002-521, Grant 108AS-13.2.11-ST-a5, Grant 108AS-16.2.1-FD-Z2, Grant 109AS-11.3.2-ST-a2, Grant 109 AS-14.2.1-FD-Z2, and Grant 109AS-11.3.2-ST-a8.