The problem Remote Temperature Monitoring (RTM) solves

We've already seen what happened after the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, workplaces and universities resumed operations and as the workforce came back to normal, the cases rose exponentially. After the second wave plummets, we cannot afford to make the same mistakes that we made while reopening. In malls/workplaces/universities, where an influx of 4,000-5,000 people was observed, traditional techniques of measuring body temperature i.e. a person holding an infrared gun to measure temperature will not be suitable since the person holding the gun would have an increased risk of contracting the virus himself/herself. It would take atleast 3-4 days for symptoms to show up and the person could come into contact with those 4,000-5,000 people repeatedly who might contract the virus. To fix this issue, our team proposes a remote temperature monitoring solution that will safeguard the workers/employees/students returning to normality.

Challenges we ran into

Over The Air Updates was for sure one of the toughest yet interesting parts of this project. Having never worked with such technologies before, it was fun facing the challenges involved in performing firmware updates wirelessly (without serial connection/physical access to the microcontroller). I also came across various encryption techniques to safeguard my IoT device.