Thermal cameras at Tel Aviv hospital in order to identify abnormal high temperatures

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Thermal cameras at Tel Aviv hospital in order to identify abnormal high temperatures
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Deployment Status Ongoing
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Start (1 April 2020, Documented, , No description)

City Tel Aviv
Country Israel
Involved Entities Israel Aerospace Industries (AIA)
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Technology Deployed AnyVision Software
Information Certainty Documented
Primary sources 1, 2
Datasets Used Unknown Dataset 0101
Deployment Type Health Surveillance
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managed by AnyVision
used by Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center
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Deployment Purpose: Health Surveillance

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CityTel Aviv
Country Israel
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Description[ ]

Any Vision deployed thermal cameras at the Ichov Hospital in Tel Aviv in order to identify people with abnormally high temperatures.

In the upcoming days, Israel-based artificial intelligence-based face recognition startup AnyVision Interactive Technologies Ltd. will deploy thermal cameras at the Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center (Ichilov Hospital), the company’s chief operating officer Alex Zilberman told Calcalist. The cameras can measure body temperature from a distance and are capable of determining whether a high temperature is caused by disease or by another cause such as physical activity.1

The cameras used are provided by the Israeli owned military contractor IAI

AnyVision's system is based on MiniPOP thermal cameras provided by Israeli government-owned defense contractor Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI). The technology was originally developed for military warships and drones.1

The company claims that because they use thermal cameras, faces cannot be identified.

According to Zilberman, the thermal system does not have any face recognition privacy issues as the photos collected are taken by a thermal camera making it impossible to identify the people pictured in them. "This is not a security camera or face recognition tech," Zilberman said. "There is no way to take these videos and use them to identify a person. The technology does not allow it. There is no feature that someone can pay for and then identify people. It is impossible." 1

References

  1. a b c d  "Face Recognition Startup AnyVision to Deploy Thermal Cameras at Tel Aviv Hospital - CTech". (2020) <https://www.calcalistech.com/ctech/articles/0,7340,L-3806587,00.html> Accessed: 2022-08-26
  2. ^  "{AnyVision to supply fever detection system that differentiates high temperature causes to Israel hospital".