Thermal imager for aerial inspection tasks

Weighing in at just 380g, the thermoIMAGER TIM LightWeight consists of a miniature infrared (IR) camera and a miniature NetBox mini PC. Video recordings can be made directly via a button on the camera housing; the video is stored on a microSD storage card in NetBox. Chris Jones, managing director of Micro-Epsilon UK, said: "The combination of a miniature lightweight PC and a powerful lightweight thermal imaging camera opens up numerous potential applications in aerial maintenance and quality inspection of a variety of structures and systems, including solar energy installations, wind power systems, and for thermographic surveys of buildings and other tall structures where manual inspection would be costly and time consuming." The camera provides full radiometric IR inspection with an optical resolution of 382 x 288 pixels in 12ms per frame. Thermal sensitivity is down to 40mK.