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Hyderabad-based healthtech startup arvi has reinvented itself and developed #AI thermal kiosks for COVID-19 screening
Founded in July 2019 by Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay alumni Sushant Reddy and his friend Avinash Lavangal, the startup initially came up with a platform to help senior citizens with its smart medical alert system. It enabled senior citizens to access emergency and non-emergency medical assistance at their doorstep at the push of a button.
However, the COVID-19 pandemic has provided a new opportunity for the startup. It has developed an unmanned contactless thermal scanning kiosk using AI technology with deep learning to combine facial recognition and thermal screening. It can detect people with high temperatures as well as those violating requirements to wear masks.
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Pivot and Persist: this startup has built AI thermal kiosks for contactless COVID-19 screening
The coronavirus pandemic has posed challenges as well as opportunities for healthcare startups in India. According to IBEF, the healthcare sector in India is one of the largest and fastest growing sectors, and has seen rapid transformation on the backdrop of technological advancements in the recent past.
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