AUTOMATIC BODY TEMPERATURE DETECTION GATE USING ARDUINO UNO AND BLYNK APP SERVICES ON ANDROID SMARTPHONE Muhamad Nursalman, Nopen Ariko
Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia
Abstract
Covid-19 has become a worldwide pandemic that has disrupted human social activities. The transmission of this virus is so fast through intermediary objects or touching one another and causes some symptoms, some even have no symptoms at all even though they have contracted Covid-19. With the transmission through touch, social distancing is enforced, hand washing and reducing touching objects in public places. Even at this time to enter some places have to go through temperature measurements by officers manually. However, measuring body temperature manually will cause officers who take body temperature measurements using firing thermometers to be vulnerable to contracting or transmitting Covid-19 and also causing queues to pile up which results in crowds. Overcoming this requires an automatic body temperature measuring device that can be monitored from the officer^s smartphone. In this study, a tool was designed by utilizing components such as Arduino Uno, temperature sensor and ESP8266 Wifi Module as data transmission to the Blynk application service on Android smartphones. The tool is placed on a doorstop which is made with two conditions, namely, if the body temperature is below 37 °-C then the doorstop as a gate will open. On the other hand, if the body temperature is above 37°-C, the doorstop will not open. The results of the suitability of comparative data using a firing thermometer using this tool in 30 trials are about 85%. The officers only need to see the body temperature of each person on their smartphone, so there is no contact between the officers and the people who come.
