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A fixed thermal imaging camera, designed and built in-house, installed in front of the electrical panel, the bearing or the motor. It logs the heat of each region at regular intervals, compares it with the equipment’s own baseline and alerts you by e-mail and WhatsApp when a new hot spot appears. It complements periodic infrared inspection rather than replacing it: the camera watches the critical assets every day, and the thermographer still surveys the whole plant from time to time.
A thermal camera measures radiation, not temperature: the reading depends on emissivity, reflections and distance. That is why the absolute value can mislead you, and the trend of the asset itself does not.
The long-wave infrared band in which industrial microbolometer cameras work. In this band panels and motors emit strongly, and ordinary glass is opaque: the camera sees the surface, not what is behind it.
The ISO standard for thermography in machine condition monitoring, with the general procedures for using it. ASTM E1934 is the reference guide for examining electrical and mechanical equipment with infrared thermography. Reflected apparent temperature, on shiny metal, remains the most common error.
NFPA 70B, the US reference for electrical equipment maintenance, went from recommended practice to standard in its 2023 edition, with thermography among the periodic inspections of the equipment.
The camera is ours, from firmware to platform, and talks to the same gateway as the vibration sensors. Each region marked on the image becomes a line on the dashboard.
Loose connections, oxidized terminals and overloaded phases show up as heat before they turn into a trip. The camera looks at the same scene every day, from inside the panel or through an infrared inspection window.
Friction, misalignment and lack of lubricant heat up the bearing. Together with the vibration sensor, the camera helps tell a mechanical problem from an electrical one.
The platform keeps the history of each region and compares it with the same equipment at the same load. One phase hotter than the other two matters more than a single high reading.
Notice by e-mail and WhatsApp when a region crosses its limit or drifts from its baseline, only when the level changes, without repeating at every reading.
Region, temperature and time of each event, for the work order and for the thermographer who will confirm it on site.
The camera joins the IoTData platform next to the vibration sensors, the automatic lubricator and the alerts you already receive.
Illustrative example. The limits for each region are set with your maintenance team, based on the panel’s own history.
Which panels, bearings and motors are critical, where the camera has a clear view, whether the panel has or can take an infrared inspection window, and how the network reaches it.
Camera mounted in front of the asset, regions marked on the image (phase, terminal, bearing) and emissivity set per material.
A few weeks of logging at different loads, so the platform learns the pattern of each region before it starts alerting.
Alerts on, records for maintenance and a review of the limits with your team whenever the process changes.
We are straight about what the camera does. The thermal camera is ours: design, firmware, integration and platform, by Data Frontier in Brazil. It measures the surface it sees, and the absolute value depends on emissivity and reflections; that is why the platform trusts the asset’s own trend more than a single number. A fixed camera does not replace periodic infrared inspection by a thermographer, who surveys the whole plant: it watches, every day, what you cannot afford to let burn. The specification of each model comes with the proposal.
Fixed. It stays installed in front of the asset and logs on its own, every day. The handheld camera remains the thermographer’s tool for periodic inspection; the two complement each other.
Not through the door: even ordinary glass blocks the infrared it measures. Either the camera goes inside the panel, or the panel gets an infrared inspection window, as the site survey recommends.
They depend on the model and the asset, and come with the data sheet in the proposal. The site survey sets the distance and field of view for each point.
Through our gateway, over the cellular network or the plant network. Where there is no network at all, the alert goes out over the DG satellite network, within minutes.
No. Periodic infrared inspection, with a thermographer’s report, stays. The fixed camera reduces the risk between one inspection and the next on the most critical assets.
An engineer replies, not a bot. If you already run infrared inspections, send the latest report: it is the best map of where a fixed camera pays off.
Standards cited: ISO 18434-1:2008 · ASTM E1934 · NFPA 70B (2023 edition).