• About IR Technology
  • How Infrared Technology Works?
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  • What is Infrared?
  • History of IR Technology


LEARN MORE ABOUT INFRARED TECHNOLOGY
The more you know about it, the more you'll understand how it can work for you.

Infrared supplies its users the power to see a reality that is otherwise invisible. First developed for military purposes, thermal imaging provides users the ability to "see" subtle temperature differences, adding a whole new dimension to sight. Infrared allows users to see when a bearing needs lubrication, the footsteps of a fugitive or how a fire is resisting all attempts to cool it off.

All objects, natural and man-made, emit infrared energy. The ability to distinguish very subtle levels of hot and cold can often reveal what was once thought invisible.Infrared gives users the ability to see the unseen, dramatically improving how we live and work.

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HOW INFRARED TECHNOLOGY WORKS?
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SEE HOW INFRARED CAMERA WORK
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History of IR technology
HISTORY OF INFRARED TECHNOLOGY

1960

  • Development od cooled forward looking infrared ( FLIR)
1972
  • Joint development with army night vision laboratory develops common module (cooled) FLIR system.
1985
  • Development of battery operated uncooled sight for US army throught the short range thermal sight ( SRTS) program.
1995
  • Nightsight is introduced and production deleveries for first customers begin.
  • Emergent detector technologies brought to commercial market
2001
  • Update IR product protfolio to digital electronics.
  • Produced the first uncooled IR camera with zoom
  • Introduced the first uncooled radiometric camera with pocket PC interface.
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