Naval Dockyard in Mumbai has designed and developed its own handheld IR based temperature sensor for undertaking screening of large number of personnel at the entry gates of the yard which has furthur reducing the load on the security entries at the gate. The instrument has been manufactured under Rs. 1000/- through in-house resources (which is a fraction of the cost of the Temperature Guns in the market).

The ongoing pandemic of COVID-19 has led to one of the biggest medical emergencies the world has witnessed in the recent times. With massive surge in the number of infected patients, the medical infrastructure of the nation is being put to its ultimate test.