The Borneo Post (Sabah)

TM helps to install smart digital health screening solution in schools

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KUALA LUMPUR: Telekom Malaysia Berhad (TM) has partnered with the Education Ministry to install its smart digital health screening solution to help school administra­tors to quickly and accurately monitor students' body temperatur­es.

In a statement yesterday, TM announced that the installati­on of the solution known as TM ONE Predictive Analytics Screening Solution or ‘ONE PASS' aims to curb the spread of Covid19, following the reopening of schools in stages from tomorrow.

To date, TM has announced that ONE PASS has been installed in three schools namely Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan (SMK) Taman Tun Dr Ismail here, as well as two schools in Putrajaya namely SMK Presint 16 and Sekolah Sultan Alam Shah.

“The installati­ons for two more schools, namely Sekolah Menengah Sains Teluk Intan, Perak and Tahfiz Ma'ahad An Noer in Janda Baik, Pahang are expected to be completed by the end of this month,” according to TM's statement.

According to TM, the health screening solution developed by TM Research and Developmen­t Sdn Bhd was capable of real-time temperatur­e updates with an accuracy of +/- 0.3 degrees Celsius up to 100 persons a minute within the range of between one to three metres.

“The real time digital solution includes a Visitor Management System (VMS), an employee/visitor management applicatio­n developed in-house for self-declaratio­n assessment and deployment of thermal camera and sensors to check the body temperatur­e prior to entering a building or premises.

“VMS has the ability to store 25,000 user profiles and allows for a comprehens­ive onpremise tracking, along with open Applicatio­n Programmin­g Interface (API) that enables easy integratio­n with other predictive analytics engine, pandemic Geographic Informatio­n System (GIS) and contact tracing system,” the statement said.

The solution is connected to a powerful analytics platform which enables mass individual analysis and swift in-building people tracking from a centralise­d dashboard, the data can also be integrated into the schools' attendance system.

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