Initially developed for military purposes, thermal cameras are being used monitoring buildings and borders, giving 24 hour surveillance. Missing people can be found, traffic flows analysed and even animals can be observed for TV documentaries.
Thermal imaging is based on the principle of invisible thermal energy emitted from a person or an object transferred into visible images using electrical pulses. Temperature differences captured by those cameras are displayed in different grayscales.
Because thermal energy has a higher wavelength than visible light, thermal cameras providing high quality images in bright sunlight as well as in complete darkness. Images are not being affected by difficult weather – heavy rain, fog or snow.
Wide range of lens angles allows to cover long distances and large areas. No light at all is needed to provide image quality and hidden objects or persons become visible, even in forested areas. Also thermal cameras including intelligent video analytics can trigger alarms caused by sudden temperature changes like fire.
The RIVA RTC1130-320
The RTC1130-320 is a thermal imaging IP camera, with intelligent video analytics. The RIVA thermal camera already includes VCA Presence as well as VCA Detect as a standard feature. The product thus filters for direction detection, retention period, speed dependent detection and object classification (persons, animals, vehicles). Other VCA-filters for more specific applications are available. An included weatherproof housing allows indoor and outdoor use. Five lenses between 7.5 and 50 mm with angles of view between 6.2 degrees and 42 degrees are offered. Available as a box version the RIVA camera comes with dual stream, micro-SD, and PoE features. A frame rate of up to 30 fps with a maximum resolution of 320×240 can be achieved. The RTC1130-320 has a 17µm uncooled microbolometer. Thus the camera is the German makers say suited for customers who seek video analytics with the detection capabilities of thermal imaging.
Contact details – RIVA by ViDiCore GmbH
Rheinstr. 7, Q2.4 – 41836 Hückelhoven
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www.rivatech.de
