Most commercial infrared camera’s that are used for industrial purposes aren’t accurate for measuring temperature with a high enough accuracy for measuring human body temperature. I think you do need a hardware solution and can’t bootstrap this on smartphone sensors.
We can use smartphone sensors to look at people’s throat and do machine learning. I think that has some potential to provide for a new easy to distribute tool and I’m writing a post for LW about that.
That said thermometers are quite cheap and the price of temperature sensors is cheap enough that many devices have them. It might be possible to build more thermometers out of chips that look differently then our normal thermometers if the production of normal thermometers is at capacity.
Most commercial infrared camera’s that are used for industrial purposes aren’t accurate for measuring temperature with a high enough accuracy for measuring human body temperature. I think you do need a hardware solution and can’t bootstrap this on smartphone sensors.
We can use smartphone sensors to look at people’s throat and do machine learning. I think that has some potential to provide for a new easy to distribute tool and I’m writing a post for LW about that.
That said thermometers are quite cheap and the price of temperature sensors is cheap enough that many devices have them. It might be possible to build more thermometers out of chips that look differently then our normal thermometers if the production of normal thermometers is at capacity.