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The search is over… Boson longwave infrared (LWIR) thermal camera cores set a new standard for size, weight, power, and performance. Imagine your next big idea, and bring it to life with Boson. FLIR’s XIR™ expandable infrared video processing architecture gives Boson advanced image processing, video analytics, peripheral sensor drivers, and several industry-standard communication interfaces that make it easy to integrate while keeping power consumption low. Its remarkable imaging performance begins with Boson’s 12µm pitch vanadium oxide (VOx) uncooled detector. Boson 320 is currently available with lots of different lens options, so you’re sure to find a configuration that’s just right for your next project. Imagine what you can do with Boson Whether you’re designing cameras for drones, security, firefighting, thermal sights, or handheld imagers, Boson is small, light, and powerful enough to enable your most innovative designs. Boson’s competitive price and flexible integration options dramatically shorten design cycles, opening up entirely new possibilities for any thermal sensor-based product you can imagine. Learn More NEW! – Low Profile BOSON VPC Interface Module The new Low Profile Boson VPC Interface Module from RHP International, provides power input to the Boson while allowing you to obtain video through the same connection. There are alternate connections (side connection and straight off the back) to allow for a variety of installation options. USB and Video cables are included. View Now

Today FLIR announced four new security products, solidifying their position in professional security and perimeter protection by offering a more fulsome, one-stop-shop turnkey solution. The wave of new products includes the FLIR high-performance FLIR PT-Series HD (High-Definition) thermal and visible camera system. The FLIR PT-Series HD is a dual-sensor camera system that provides superior, long-range perimeter intrusion detection regardless of lighting and environmental conditions. The high-speed, pan-tilt camera provides quick and accurate threat verification. The FLIR PT-Series HD offers either a cooled or uncooled 640×480 resolution thermal camera with a 1080p HD visible camera. Multiple high-performance thermal lenses are available, including optical zoom lenses up to 14X. The HD visible camera also features a 30X optical zoom lens with autofocus and low light capabilities. The FLIR PT-Series HD integrates with many of the major VMS providers. For Product information, visit: http://www.oemcameras.com/pan-tilts/pt-series.htm

The new Vue Pro R from FLIR gives both drone operators and certified thermographers the power to gather accurate, non-contact temperature measurements from an aerial perspective. Every still image the Vue Pro R saves contains accurate, calibrated temperature data embedded in every pixel, adding even more value to your sUAS operations and services than ever. Keeping the same industry-leading thermal imaging quality, interfaces, and capability as the best-selling Vue Pro, the Vue Pro R adds fully radiometric data-gathering to sUAS applications as diverse as building and roof inspections, power grid inspections, infrastructure analysis, precision agriculture, and public safety. Radiometry The Vue Pro R is more than a thermal imager – it captures accurate, non-contact temperature measurements from an aerial perspective and saves images with calibrated temperature data embedded in every pixel. Get FLIR Tools On-Board Recording Vue Pro R captures regular JPEGs and fully radiometric R-JPEGs that can be fully analyzed in FLIR Tools thermography analysis and reporting software. It also records 8-bit digital video in MJPEG or H.264 formats, and 14-bit TIFFs right on the camera so you won’t lose any of your data to transmission loss. Imagery is saved to the micro-SD card and can be retrieved either directly from the card or by plugging the camera into a USB cable, where your computer will see it as a storage device. MAVLink Integration & Camera Control Like Vue Pro, Vue Pro R’s Accessory Port connection gives you access to MAVLink commands camera controls over PWM commands, so you can select color palettes, start and stop recording, or trigger the camera’s e-zoom in-flight from your radio controller. If MAVLink is enabled, two camera controls are available; without MAVLink you can control up to four camera controls. Easy to Configure Vue Pro R comes with a built-in, low-power Bluetooth module, so you can easily configure your camera with our custom iOS or Android apps before you take off. Change color palettes, set your image optimization features, configure your PWM inputs, and start recording all without lugging a computer to the field. With the same powerful thermal imaging core used in the most popular cameras in the world, FLIR Vue Pro R brings affordable, calibrated radiometry to drone operators, making it perfect for myriad applications like: Roof inspections Power line inspections Substation inspections Cell tower inspections Search and rescue Precision agriculture Security Surveying

FLIR today announced Boson™, its smallest, lightest, and least power-consuming, high-performance uncooled thermal camera for original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) that make products for firefighting, automotive, maritime, hunting, UAS, and the military. The Boson design allows for expanded computing capability on the camera and a dramatic reduction in price. Smaller than the Tau® 2 core, FLIR’s other high-performance uncooled core, and double the size of the low-cost Lepton® core, Boson is the first thermal camera core to incorporate a sophisticated, low-power multi-core vision processor unit that helps make Boson the smartest thermal core on the planet. Boson uses FLIR’s XIR™ expandable infrared video processing architecture to help OEMs take advantage of advanced image processing and video analytics while keeping power consumption low. Manufacturers of drones, cars, weapons sights and handheld imagers will now have the ability to process video onboard, and allow Boson to do things our previous cores could not:: Military: Boson will allow our soldiers on the battlefield to use higher-performance thermal technology that is fit into smaller equipment and distributed more broadly because of the lower prices. It will enable soldiers both on the front lines and command centers to use video analytics to better identify combatant locations or areas for safe deployment. Drones: With a smaller design, the weight difference will help improve battery life and extend flight times. Boson will enable smaller drones with thermal imaging video capabilities that may have been available in only in the highest-end applications like those for military. Automotive: Thermal cameras today provide select luxury automakers a more accurate way to detect people and vehicles on the roadway. By connecting the video analytics built into Boson with a vehicle’s electronics system, cars will require fewer components for integration and more importantly, help improve safety for drivers on the road. With higher-performing capabilities at lower cost, Boson could help make thermal technology more accessible to more vehicles. Firefighting: Firefighters already use thermal imaging cameras, but Boson can enable firefighters to access better, smarter, and smaller thermal devices. The last thing a firefighter wants is another heavy tool. Boson can help control the display, control button functions, improve battery life and lead to a wave of smarter and smaller wearable devices for firefighters. With Boson, more firefighters will have access to higher-performing technology that can improve decision-making when seconds matter. Security: Boson will enable smaller higher-performing security cameras to be deployed more broadly. When securing high-value areas like airports, stadiums and ports, more security is better. In security, video is data, and it’s impossible for humans to make real-time decisions based on the vast amount of video data. The video intelligence within Boson could help security teams pinpoint if someone is in an area of a stadium where they shouldn’t be, designate the heated object with a box on a video screen and alert security teams. We’re excited to launch Boson, our first new thermal camera core since Lepton in 2014. We look forward to the range of new products it will enable our OEM partners to develop. For OEMs who want to consider Boson, it’s available for product development testing now. To learn more about the technical details for Boson, visit www.oemcameras.com Source: FLIR

Now available and in stock. FLIR VUE PRO 35mm Lens: 640 Version: 18°(H) x 14°(V) FoV 336 Version: 9.3°(H) x 7.1°(V) FoV More Info: OEMCameras.com Designed for professional use the FLIR VUE PRO is more than a thermal camera with Video and Image Capture capabilities adding tremendous value to your sUAS operations and services.

Twitter may be the latest tech giant interested in unmanned aerial vehicles — but not for delivery. The company has applied for a patent, which became available last week, for a drone capable of taking photos and videos and transmitting them through users’ Twitter accounts. Of course, applying for the patent doesn’t necessarily mean Twitter plans on building a drone. However, it could be laying a foundation for a Twitter-controlled UAV. For instance, Twitter mentions a way to use likes, retweets, and replies to control the drone’s direction or what it ends up recording or photographing. Twitter also mentions telepresence and live video interview capabilities. All of this sounds pretty outlandish, from both a technical and safety standpoint. Still, it’s an ambitious concept no other company is publicly considering at the moment. Twitter this year also launched the live-streaming app Periscope. That leaves open the possibility it could use the app in tandem with high-flying drones to capture and broadcast events through its platform, with crowds of Periscope users controlling the process. When CNBC asked for comment, a Twitter spokesperson replied with “Two words: drone selfies,” in one of the more social media savvy public relations responses in Silicon Valley. Twitter stopped short of using the term “dronie,” which has emerged in the last few years as a portmanteau describing the phenomenon of using UAVs to snap photos of yourself. Source: TheVerge.com

Last week we compared the FLIR VUE Pro cameras side-by-side. This video shows the difference in Field of View for the VUE Pro 640×480 9mm, 13mm and 19mm. The 19mm image is 32°(H) x 26°(W) FoV. The 13mm image is 45°(H) x 37°(W) FoV. The 9mm image is 69°(H) x 56°(W) FoV. The FLIR VUE Pro comparison matrix

Thermal Camera mounted on a Formula 1 Race Car. The speed reaches over 290 km/h (180 mph).