Thermal Imaging Cameras
If you have ever seen an odd photo that did not exactly show a person or animal in the way they would look but instead seemed to be a collection of purple and yellow with other colors in-between, then you have probably seen a photo take with thermal imaging cameras. Utilizing infrared technology, thermal imaging cameras take a picture of a person’s or animal’s body heat. Warm areas are usually bright white or yellow, while the cold areas may be violet or blue. Temperatures that range in-between hot and cold are assigned colors of red and orange. You may wonder why someone would want to purchase a thermal camera but you will be surprised to learn that these thermal imaging cameras have a wide variety of uses.

Thermal imaging cameras are widely used when fighting fires. Consider the firefighter who enters a smoke filled building. It is dark outside, the smoke makes it impossible to see anything, the electricity has been cut off, but outside a panicked mother says she left her child sleeping in a bed. He gets to the bed, but it is empty. Somewhere in the house there is a toddler who will die if he does not find her quickly.

Thermal imaging cameras will be able to pick up the child’s body heat and the firefighter can find her even in these dismal and dangerous conditions and reunite the child with her mother. Firefighters can also detect if a fire will flare up again or if it is truly extinguished. In these cases, the thermal imaging video camera is a lifesaver.

Yet a thermal imaging camera also finds commercial applications in the building trade. Consider the electrician who can use a cheap thermal imaging camera to ascertain if there are hotspots in the wiring that indicate possible overheating that will lead to significant problems in the near future. Those that work on air conditioning systems can find out if there is a heat leak or maybe a cooling leak that negatively impacts the work performance of the equipment. Roofers can find out the answer to this same question by using this technology.