A system for examining an animal that includes a kiosk housing having an analysis zone. The system includes a persuasion delivery device in the analysis zone. The system includes a dispensing machine to dispense an animal attractant to the persuasion delivery device. The system includes a set of sensors located in the analysis zone to sense real-time data related to health of an animal. The set of sensors includes at least one sensor to sense within the analysis zone at least one biological parameter of the animal related to the health. A method is provided using the system that autonomously guides the animal to the analysis zone by a predisposition of the animal to hunt for an animal attractant so that biological parameters of the animal related to the health of the animal are sensed in a stress-free or reduced stress environment.

A method and system of screening persons boarding an aircraft to detect a febrile condition of each person are disclosed. According to one aspect, a method includes: detecting an open condition of a door of the aircraft; when the door is in an open condition, detecting a presence of a person entering through the door; thermally and optically imaging the person; determining a febrile condition of the person; and when the person is in a febrile condition, alerting aircraft employees.

A system for sanitizing and controlling people who want to access a room (40), adapted to at least reduce the risk that people can bring pathogenic contaminants into said room (40), in particular viral pathogenic contaminants, such as for example coronavirus,

comprising: a sanitizing cabin (1) having a size such that it can house at least one person inside; a sanitizing unit (7) for sanitizing the person present inside said cabin, and at least one controller (12) which is operatively connected to a sanitation activating element (32, 36, 100E), said controller (12) being configured to determine a process control command for said sanitizing unit (7) to supply a sanitizing substance to said cabin for a predetermined time, when it receives at least one activation signal from said sanitation activating element (32, 36, 100E).

A security portal has a body having sidewalls and a top, a floor, and an entrance passageway, a remotely operable entrance barrier at the entrance passageway, a remotely operable exit barrier at the exit passageway, input apparatus in the security portal, an optical temperature sensor positioned and remotely operable to sense the subject's skin temperature, and a computerized base station remote from the security portal. The operative opens the entrance barrier to admit the subject, uses the input apparatus to solicit information, performs an evaluation process involving identity and skin temperature, and, depending on result of the evaluation process, the operative opens the entrance barrier and asks the subject to leave through the entrance passageway, or opens the exit barrier and asks the subject to leave through the exit passageway into the secured area.

A sensing system comprising a a hand-held sensing device with a vibracoustic sensor module (VSM). The VSM comprises a voice coil component comprising a coil holder supporting wire windings; a magnet component comprising a magnet supported by a frame, a magnet gap configured to receive at least a portion of the voice coil component in a spaced and moveable manner; a connector connecting the voice coil component to the magnet component, the connector being compliant and permitting relative movement of the voice coil component and the magnet component; a diaphragm configured to induce a movement of the voice coil component in the magnet gap responsive to incident acoustic waves; a housing for retaining the vibroacoustic sensor module having a handle end and a sensor end, the sensor end having an opening, the VSM positioned such that at least a portion of the diaphragm extends across the opening.

A shielding arrangement for a magnetoencephalography (MEG) system includes a passively shielded enclosure having a plurality of walls defining the passively shielded enclosure, each of the plurality of walls including passive magnetic shielding material to reduce an ambient background magnetic field within the passively shielded enclosure; a vestibular wall extending from a first vertical wall to define, and at least partially separate, a vestibular area of the passively shielded enclosure adjacent the doorway and a user area of the passively shielded enclosure; and active shield coils distributed within the passively shielded enclosure and configured to further reduce the ambient background magnetic field within the user area of the passively shielded enclosure.

A magnetocardiography (MCG) system includes a passively shielded enclosure having walls defining the passively shielded enclosure, each of the walls including passive magnetic shielding material to reduce an ambient background magnetic field within the passively shielded enclosure; an MCG measurement device including optically pumped magnetometers (OPMs); and active shield coils within the passively shielded enclosure and stationary relative to the passively shielded enclosure and the MCG measurement device, wherein the active shield coils are configured to further reduce the ambient background magnetic field within a user area of the passively shielded enclosure.

A multi-sensor interactive patient care pod is disclosed herein. In one embodiment the system may comprise a telemedicine pod having a plurality of physiological sensors and an integrated computing device allowing medical practitioners to remotely gather increased patient information and provide advanced levels of healthcare and service. The system may have sensors for measuring body weight, heart rate, body temperature, blood pressure, breathing rate, oxygen saturation, and any other appropriate parameters. The multi-sensor interactive patient care pod may comprise an enclosed pod in a first orientation, and may open by the combined sliding of its front cowling and lifting of its top cowling to allow patient ingress and egress. The system may further comprise a mobile device that can be placed in any appropriate location, and may further integrate smart technologies such as machine learning, voice and face recognition, self-cleaning, self-driving, and self-locking technologies.

A method of assessing an operator emotional state and sending an alert based on the emotional state. The method includes tracking during a time period, using at least one sensor, one of an image sensor data, voice data or a biometric parameter of an operator. Determining, using a controller that is operatively connected to at least one sensor, a probability of a likely emotional state from a list of emotional states of an operator based on one of the image sensor data, voice data or the biometric parameter. Comparing, using a processor, the probability of one of the likely emotional states of the operator with a baseline emotional state of the operator. Sending, using the controller, an alert if most likely emotional state deviates from the baseline emotional state by a predetermined threshold.

A system and method for pain level recognition using an automated approach which incorporates a pain-affect dataset comprising bioVid pain and bioVid emotion datasets for the assessment of patient pain in clinical settings where patients often experience other affect states, such as anger and anxiety, in addition to pain.