AETOS KoolScan: Contactless High-Speed Temperature Scanner
Fully customised, Class B medical device-certified temperature scanning system, over 1,200 units built to support pandemic operations.
Designed and built KoolScan for AETOS, a fully customised system that scans temperature quickly and without contact. It uses satellite-grade sensing for fast, accurate readings during pandemic operations. Over 1,200 units were made. It has a built-in microprocessor and AI controls, and is calibrated to +/-0.2°C. It reads from 0.9 to 1.0m away in under two seconds, and the alarm threshold can be set. It runs on battery or mains power, and a 20,000mAh power bank supports up to 12 hours of continuous use.
AETOS needed a contactless temperature scanning system it could make and deploy at scale during pandemic operations. It had to be fast and accurate, and run on battery in the field. It could not carry the compromises typical of off-the-shelf consumer thermal scanners.
Engineered a fully customised scanner from the ground up. It has a built-in microprocessor with AI controls, and calibrated accuracy of +/-0.2°C at a 0.9–1.0m reading distance. Readings take under two seconds, and the alarm threshold can be set. It has two power options: a direct power line, or a 20,000mAh battery pack rated for 12 hours in the field. The finished system achieved Class B medical device certification.
Over 1,200 units were built and deployed to support pandemic operations. The system achieved Class B medical device certification. That gave it a standard of credibility and accuracy that consumer-grade alternatives could not match at the same operating scale.
- My role
- Engineered the scanner from the ground up, Orion Five Engineering
Building a product that earns Class B medical device certification, not just a consumer gadget, is what let this scanner scale to 1,200+ units during a real operational emergency. When your business is judging a hardware vendor for anything close to safety or health, certification status is the first question.
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Building 1,200 units of a medical-grade device during an actual pandemic means the supply chain, the certification process and the manufacturing line all have to move at once. There's no slack if any one of them slips. Class B certification wasn't a formality tacked on at the end. It shaped component choices from the first prototype onward. I still think about the pressure of knowing every unit that shipped late was a checkpoint somewhere running without accurate screening. Hitting that standard under that timeline is what I'm proudest of.
