Design and Fabrication of a Solar Powered Touchless Temperature Monitoring and Hand Sanitizing Device

Abstract

With the current rise in cases of COVID-19, temperature monitoring and hand sanitizing has become tedious at the entrance of the universities, schools and other busy public institutions. This process is time consuming and requires human resource to ensure everyone complies with the covid19 guidelines. In addition, there has been a lot of human to surface contact during hand sanitizing when pressing the sanitizer dispensers’ button or opening hand wash taps. To address the above issues, we designed a programmable device that will be placed at the main entrance of Kirinyaga University to check the temperature and sanitize hands of people getting into the university without human to surface contact. The device deploys an obstacle sensor that is programmed to detect the presence of hand and in turn trigger the temperature sensor to check temperature and switch on the pump to dispense sanitizing liquid concurrently. The device will be fitted with a buzzer that will sound an alarm when it detects a person with temperatures above 370c. This device is aimed at reducing congestion at the main entrance of the university since temperature check and sanitizing is done concurrently. Introduction of this device will also reduce the employees stationed at the entrance since it can perform their task with ease using solar energy hence is economical to run. In future the device will be fitted with a data logger system that will track and store information of the staff or students found with temperatures above 370c.