Abstract:
The novel Covid-19 virus has become a global pandemic with devastating and far-reaching consequences. The sanitization of hands and monitoring of body temperature have become part of our daily lives and have been adopted by the World Health Organization (WHO) as key guidelines in battling the pandemic. In public institutions where large groups of people interact, temperature monitoring and hand sanitizing needs to be quick and low cost for it to be effectively implemented. To address the above issues, this paper discusses the development of a solar powered automated low-cost non-contact temperature scanner and sanitizer. A microcontroller-based device was designed and implemented, capable of checking temperature and dispensing hand sanitizer to the user without physical contact with the device. Experiments were conducted to ascertain the reliability of the solar power system to run the device and the functionality and experiment results are highlighted in subsequent sections.
