Thermal imaging
Real temperature measurement, read from the hardware, for predictive maintenance, process control and perimeter.
Degrees come from the sensor
The number comes from the camera's radiometric sensor, never from the brightness or color of the image. If the camera does not measure, there is no temperature here.
Several points per camera
One camera watches several measurement points at once, each with its own threshold, its standard and its history.
A health index, not a colour
Four weighted sub-signals in a number from 0 to 100 across seven bands. The worst component governs: equipment does not fail on average.
Process mode
Furnaces, boilers and chillers are judged by setpoint adherence and uniformity across zones, not by being hot.
Why it matters
Most of what is sold as “thermal” colours an image and calls it measurement. The difference shows up the day you have to justify a shutdown: a colour defends nothing, a degree with its standard behind it does.
How it works
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Degrees come from the camera's radiometric sensor, never from the brightness of the picture. If a camera does not measure, the platform shows no degrees: it says that camera does not deliver temperature.
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One camera watches several measurement points at once, each with its own threshold and history.
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The Thermal Health Index weighs four sub-signals — temperature against its limit, ΔT over the reference, trend and peak risk — into a number from 0 to 100 and seven bands. The worst component governs: one point below 50 pulls the whole down.
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Process mode for furnaces, boilers and chillers: setpoint adherence and uniformity, not just the maximum.
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The capture archive stores, beyond the points, the camera's complete temperature image — tens of thousands of degrees per capture — at the interval the customer sets for their process, from one minute to twenty-four hours. The tab opens on the live reading, and any old capture reopens whole: place the cursor anywhere and read the degree that spot had that day.
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Re-measurement on the archive: if the configured emissivity was not the material's — polished metal, paint — any zone of a stored capture can be re-measured afterwards by physics, with the right emissivity, without going back to the plant.
In practice
A tank you cannot measure with a ruler
The thermal line marks where the liquid sits, but percentage of height is not percentage of volume. A horizontal cylinder resolves as a circular segment, a sphere as 3f²−2f³. From that come litres, remaining capacity and reorder point — not a percentage that misleads.
The failure nobody was watching
Measurement points watch what you already knew to watch. The day a motor fails at a spot nobody marked, the archive holds the complete image of the past months: open the capture, read the temperature at that exact spot, and see how long it had been climbing. That evidence — dated and in degrees, not a colour — is what holds up a warranty claim with the vendor or a case with the insurer.
Capabilities
- ΔT per NETA MTS, Table 100.18 · above 15 °C over a similar component, repair immediately
- Seven health bands with worst-component governor
- IEC 60034 · NETA MTS 100.18 · ISO 18434-1 · NFPA 70B
- Geometric tank strapping: vertical, horizontal and spherical
- Live and recorded thermal video, including radiometric cameras that publish no RTSP stream, with frame rate set per camera
- Per-point trend and estimated time to critical
- Radiometric capture archive: full image, configurable interval and retention, with a calculator against the actual disk
- Emissivity re-measurement on the stored capture, with a printable report for each capture