However, it’s a different story when it comes to surveillance.
Thermal imaging is tipped to become mainstream and a walk around the show illustrates how mainstream providers are getting into an area that was previously the sole province of specialists such as Flir (on stand 17132 in Hall 19).
But also check out the CBC Europe stand (12021 in Hall 20) where the company are showing some interesting thermal kit.
At the show they are launching a camera with thermal and imaging technologies combined. The Thermal C-AllView can detect a person at up to 1000 meters day and night, no lighting needed, in any weather – and operators can switch to CCTV imaging when they need to.
Thermal imaging technology is rapidly gaining acceptance and a lot of users have been tempted thanks to the many images used in police chase TV programmes when car thieves are tracked in pitch darkness after they’ve ditched their vehicles.
What I did not realize until today, thanks to CBC’s John Downie, national sales and marketing manager for CCTV and vision, was that they have another thing going from them.
This centres around another hot issue in CCTV … video analytics.
According to Downie, video analytics is highly suitable for thermal imaging.
“It’s fantastic for analytics designers because they work in greyscales” the thermal medium, he said.
