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Vision Thermal Imaging
PC and Infrared Technology Converge for Affordable Measurements
Traditionally, thermal image measurements have been valuable to research and development departments needing exact temperature measurements. Now, with National Instruments software for LabVIEW™ and IMAQ™ Vision, you can easily take thermal measurements.
Infrared Cameras Make Your Application Easier
Infrared cameras today are well suited to the production line because they have the look and feel of traditional visible light cameras but do not need complicated lighting schemes. They are especially useful in quality control applications. On the production line, you can use them to measure and evaluate products inside opaque packaging or other materials. With National Instruments LabVIEW, you can use a computer to automatically measure thermal images. You can then use IMAQ Vision software tools, such as edge detection, pattern matching, and blob analysis, to test for quality and consistency. For example, if the thermal image of oil inside a compressor (reflecting a darker color than its surrounding material because it has a cooler temperature) does not match a template image stored by IMAQ Vision, the compressor fails and the production line rejects it. In anticipation of the growing demand for thermal imaging in process control applications, National Instruments offers software for performing thermal imaging with LabVIEW. National Instruments and FLIR Systems Inc., a major infrared camera vendor based in Portland, Ore, offer thermal imaging add-on software for use with LabVIEW. FLIR Systems cameras work with National Instruments image acquisition hardware, and the appropriate software can be downloaded from www.ni.com/vision
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