LWIR

All articles filed under LWIR — 64 articles.

Dual-Spectrum Perimeter Protection for an Airport Fuel Farm
Jan 18, 2025

Dual-Spectrum Perimeter Protection for an Airport Fuel Farm

How an airport fuel farm replaced fence vibration cables and dusk-blind CCTV with dual-spectrum AI cameras — cutting false alarms 90% while gaining fire-watch capability over the tank farm in the same installation.

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Unattended Electronic Sentries on a Remote Border Section
Dec 30, 2024

Unattended Electronic Sentries on a Remote Border Section

How a border management unit covered 26 km of remote mountainous frontier with unattended dual-sensor sentry towers — replacing a patrol schedule that left most of the section unwatched most of the time.

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Forest Fire Watchtowers with Thermal Imaging: From Smoke-Spotting to Heat-Spotting
Dec 11, 2024

Forest Fire Watchtowers with Thermal Imaging: From Smoke-Spotting to Heat-Spotting

How a county forestry bureau upgraded eleven fire watchtowers with thermal PTZ cameras — detecting fires at the heat stage, through the night and through light haze, instead of waiting for visible smoke.

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Early Fire Warning in a High-Bay Automated Warehouse
Nov 22, 2024

Early Fire Warning in a High-Bay Automated Warehouse

How a 24-meter high-bay AS/RS warehouse added fixed thermal cameras above the aisles — catching smoldering pallets and overheating drive units that smoke detection, by design, sees far too late.

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Drone-Based Hot Spot Inspection Across a Utility-Scale Solar Park
Nov 3, 2024

Drone-Based Hot Spot Inspection Across a Utility-Scale Solar Park

How an O&M contractor thermally surveyed all 520,000 modules of a 200 MW solar park in eleven flying days — recovering 1.8% of annual yield and a warranty claim in the process.

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UAV Thermal Inspection of Transmission Line Hot Spots
Oct 15, 2024

UAV Thermal Inspection of Transmission Line Hot Spots

How a provincial grid operator replaced one helicopter sortie a year with an in-house drone thermal program — quadrupling inspection cadence on 3,800 km of mountain transmission lines.

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Inline Temperature Monitoring on a Battery Formation and Grading Line
Sep 26, 2024

Inline Temperature Monitoring on a Battery Formation and Grading Line

How a power-battery plant added overhead thermal monitoring to its formation and grading workshop — catching silent cooling failures and per-cell hot spots that channel data could not see.

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Early Warning of Thermal Runaway at a Battery Energy Storage Station
Sep 7, 2024

Early Warning of Thermal Runaway at a Battery Energy Storage Station

How a 100 MW/200 MWh grid-side battery storage station added fixed radiometric thermal monitoring of its rack aisles — catching failing modules hours before gas or smoke detectors could respond.

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Detecting Broken Defroster Wires on Automotive Glass with Thermal Imaging
Apr 27, 2024

Detecting Broken Defroster Wires on Automotive Glass with Thermal Imaging

A glass processor built thermal inspection into the production line: energize the rear-window defroster grid, image it with an OEM thermal core, and reject panels with broken heating wires automatically.

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