Possible Mass Temperature Screenings
Early in the shutdown, Bob Iger was quoted as saying Disney might need to do temperature screenings on guests. Well, it looks like they’ve figured out a pretty neat way of doing just that.
During Shanghai Disneyland’s reopening press event, attendees walked through temperature screening tents. A special optical scanner looking for high-temperature could evaluate attendees as they walked through. Guests would be pulled aside for more specific testing if the scanners identified them as a risk.
We believe that something similar will be coming to Disneyland. While temperature scanning doesn’t come close to identifying all guests who might be infected, it would catch at least some. And mass scanning is a quick way to do it that wouldn’t result in long lines of guests all needing to wait to get screened.
, Disneyland Update – Weeks, Not Months . . .Disney recently added a new company to their vendor list, Remark Holdings. The company makes AI thermal scanners that are being purchased by Las Vegas casinos, large corporations, and event venues.
Remark’s website states: “Traditional thermal imagers and temperature devices require a human operator to scan each patron as they walk through a security point. The close proximity creates an uncomfortable intrusive experience for customers and employees in addition to causing delays at point of entry.” The site further describes their product as solving that problem: “Our solutions provide touch-free access control and monitoring, as well as accurate temperature measurement and the ability to scan as many as 120 people per minute, a rate that is approximately 10 times faster than manual checks. Our solutions also filter out non-human heat sources and provide security personnel with real-time alerts with photo identification.”
The Remark scanners would make the process largely invisible to guests. Only those who show a high temperature would be pulled aside for additional screening. With enough of these scanners, guests entering the resort wouldn’t need to stop at all, except for baggage check, which we hope will be speeded up with the use of conveyor belt scanners (as Universal Studios uses) rather than manual checking by hand.
