Vodafone Spain has joined forces with numerous companies including Intel, Altran, Microsoft and Fivecomm to launch a project called Robot Covid 5G based on a self-guided autonomous vehicle (‘sentinel robot’) with image and temperature sensors to help control the actions of the public in the current pandemic scenario. The sentinel robot incorporates an image sensor with facial recognition to identify people who are not wearing a mask as well as a thermal camera to detect people with higher than usual body temperatures.
The trial saw Vodafone provide the 5G network connectivity infrastructure, startup Fivecomm providing its remote driving solution on a mobile robot, Altran integrating the facial recognition and temperature measurement sensors, Intel the AI algorithms via its Xeon SP processors and Microsoft the cloud processing infrastructure via Azure Stack Edge.
