Maharashtra’s deploying 'smart helmets' to check for Covid
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Mumbai/Pune
With one of the highest number of cases in the country, Mumbai has even crossed the original epicenter of the virus - China - while Pune has recorded close to 30,000 cases.
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Portable thermal scanners
As cases keep rising, authorities are in desperate need of faster ways to identify at-risk people, which has led to the deployment of smart helmets that have built in thermal equipment.
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Head mounted
Even as Mumbai tries to clamp down on new cases, authorities are screening people at every instance possible, for which these helmets prove a very valuable weapon.
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Numbers
With the new thermal helmets - currently in use in Mumbai and Pune - authorities can screen up to 6,000 people in two and a half hours, whereas previously they took the same time to screen a mere 300 people.
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More needed
As of now, the cities have very few helmets in use each of which cost roughly Rs six lakh and are in high demand in Dubai and Italy making it very difficult for Maharashtra to expand its inventory.