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You’ve just got your brand new thermal camera. It’s still all shiny, full of promise and completely calibrated for accurate testing. It’ll last a good long while, but what you always need to remember is that – eventually – the accuracy of the camera is likely to degrade. It’s just one of those things. Like all machines, thermal cameras are a bit prone to going a bit – ahem- wonky, every now and again. Different factors ranging from continuous use wearing down parts of the camera to damage by dust and other particles can have an adverse effect on the thermal imaging camera’s delicately balanced technology.

Was that leg truly before the wicket? Thermal cameras may be able to tell better than any human eyes ever could. A new range of specialist thermal cameras that have been developed by a firm known as Selex Galileo are to be used by cricket umpires to help detect ‘Hot Spots’, highlighting when there has been any contact between batsmen, the bat itself and the ball.

Italy has, arguably, some of the best historical architecture in the world, so the preservation of these important cultural buildings is vital. An Altamura based survey company called IR HotSpot has been set up to directly focus on investigating historical buildings using thermography equipment. This allows these iconic buildings to be preserved and maintained without any complicated invasive investigation taking place beforehand. Also, it ensures that any small unseen problems can show up on the thermal image and can be dealt with before it can develop into something serious.

Before you consider opening an electrical panel to carry out a survey with a thermal imaging camera you should ask yourself the following questions: 1. Is the panel high voltage above (415 volts) or low voltage? If the answer is high voltage then you should not be opening the panel under any circumstances unless you are an authorised person; for more information see who specialise in high voltage training and run authorised person courses.

It has been reported recently that industrial technicians of the future should use the most advanced equipment available.

This week has seen the launch of our new look Thermal Imaging Camera website.

The famous BMW car manufacturer is known worldwide for making high quality luxury cars with all the latest technological advances included. BMW’s research campus, near the Munich headquarters, employs a wide range of engineers, computer experts, scientists and many others in order to research ways to produce BMW models in faster and more cost effective ways.

Since the eruption of Iceland’s Eyjafjallajokull volcano grounded most of UK airspace, scientists have been trying to come up with some kind of Ash cloud detection system. A standard jet engine superheats the ash particles, which turns them to glass inside the engine itself resulting in the engine stopping mid air.

Thermal imaging was once highly expensive and only used exclusively. However, things have changed considerably and now thermal imaging is much more affordable and used for a wide variety of applications. Thermal imaging manufacturers have realised that the possibilities for thermography applications is vast and are now producing cameras with different specifications for different types of thermal work.