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FLIR Cameras Spot Trespassers and Keep Trains Running Smoothly
To prevent incidents and delays on Belgium's busiest railway trajectory, Belgian rail infrastructure management company, Infrabel, now uses thermal imaging cameras from FLIR as a way of detecting people walking on the tracks.
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Webinar: What you need to know about choosing a RID
View this webinar for helpful tips for evaluating the right handheld radiation detector based on the application and deployment program.
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Thermal Imaging for Preventative Maintenance on Wind Turbines
As wind farms age and move out of warranty, the importance of owners and operators to conduct preventative maintenance increases. By detecting imminent component failures, operators can avoid costly failures and downtime. Thermal imaging can help to detect these failures at a glance, even during operation.
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FLIR Releases Boson+ Longwave Infrared Thermal Camera Module with Industry-Leading Sensitivity of 20 mK
Teledyne FLIR, part of Teledyne Technologies Incorporated, today announced the Boson+ with thermal sensitivity of 20 millikelvin (mK) or less, making it the most sensitive longwave infrared (LWIR) camera in the market. It shares the industry-leading SWaP of the widely deployed and real-world-proven Boson thermal camera module. With identical mechanical, electrical, and optical interfaces, the Boson+ is a drop-in upgrade that also includes updated image processing to deliver enhanced sharpness and contrast for defense and commercial applications.
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Teledyne FLIR Defense Launches New Lightweight Vehicle Surveillance System with Advanced Counter-Drone Capabilities
Next-generation Air Domain Awareness confirms clear airspace and boosts counter-drone operations beyond line of sight ELKRIDGE, MD, March 29, 2022 ― Teledyne FLIR Defense, part of Teledyne Technologies Incorporated (NYSE:TDY), today announced the launch of a new Lightweight Vehicle Surveillance System (LVSS) with revolutionary air domain awareness (ADA) and advanced counter-unmanned aerial system (C-UAS) capabilities. The LVSS ADA C-UAS is an enhanced addition to Teledyne FLIR’s field-proven LVSS platform that features reliable, rapidly deployable, cutting-edge technology to detect and mitigate the growing threat of small drones.
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The Big Problem with Small Drones
Governments around the globe face a growing need for flexible, tailorable, and affordable Counter-sUAS solutions
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As Drone Strikes Rise, Multi-Layered Approach is Crucial to Countering New and Emerging Threats
New Whitepaper from Teledyne FLIR Defense Finds Counter-Drone Solutions Must be Modular, Interoperable and Cost-Effective to Combat Growing Risks Posed by State and Non-State Actors ELKRIDGE, MD. / RIYADH, SAUDI ARABIA, March 8, 2022 ― In a new whitepaper, Teledyne FLIR Defense, part of Teledyne Technologies Incorporated (NYSE:TDY), finds that a multi-layered approach, incorporating common architectures and information sharing, among other imperatives, is needed to address the threat to life and property posed by weaponized use of small Unmanned Aerial Systems (sUAS).
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Teledyne FLIR Introduces Comprehensive Online Developer Support Tools for Lepton Thermal Camera Module Integration
Teledyne FLIR, working with developers, has taken those learnings to develop a new set of comprehensive online support tools to empower the next generation of designers, engineers, and developers to create new devices and uses with the Lepton. Available at http://www.flir.com/leptonintegration, this new site features everything needed to start integrating the Lepton into handheld mobile, IoT, unmanned, or other imagined devices using Windows, Linux, Raspberry Pi, and Beaglebone platforms.
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New Aerial Solar Farm Inspection Takes Off for Wesii
An innovative new aerial inspection system for solar farms has been unveiled by Italian thermography specialist Wesii using the latest thermal imaging technology. By combining the high-resolution FLIR A8580 MWIR thermal camera and cooled sensor, it has replaced slow, low-altitude drone inspections with an aeroplane-based system to accurately inspect large numbers of panels quickly, even at lower irradiance, and with far greater data consistency.
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Teledyne Appoints JihFen Lei as Executive Vice President of Teledyne FLIR Defense
Newly Named Organization Brings the Surveillance and Unmanned Solutions Businesses Together to Enrich Product and Market Synergies THOUSAND OAKS, Calif., January 18, 2022 ― Teledyne Technologies Incorporated (NYSE:TDY) announced that Dr. JihFen Lei has been promoted to Executive Vice President of Teledyne FLIR Defense, one of the leading providers of thermal imaging, unmanned systems, and intelligent sensing solutions to global security and public safety markets.
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Teledyne FLIR Wins Contract Worth Up to $15.7M to Develop Augmented Reality Technology that Displays Chem-Bio Threats
PITTSBURGH, PA., December 7, 2021 ― Teledyne FLIR announced it has won a development contract worth up to $15.7 million with the U.S. Defense Threat Reduction Agency’s Joint Science and Technology Office (DTRA JSTO) to develop novel battlefield threat mapping and visualization tools. The technology will allow the capability to digitally map hazardous material threats from sensor data and to ‘see’ their exact location via mixed reality on mobile phones, tablets, and Heads-Up Displays (HUDs).
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FLIR Systems and ANSYS to Advance Thermal Camera Machine Learning for Safer Cars
ARLINGTON, Va., January 7, 2020 – FLIR Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: FLIR) and ANSYS (NASDAQ: ANSS) are partnering to deliver superior hazard detection capabilities for assisted driving and autonomous vehicles (AVs) — empowering automakers to deliver unprecedented vehicle safety. Through this partnership, FLIR will integrate a fully physics-based thermal sensor into ANSYS’ leading-edge driving simulator to model, test, and validate thermal camera designs within an ultra-realistic virtual world. The new solution will reduce original equipment manufacturers’ (OEM) development time by optimizing thermal camera placement for use with tools such as automatic emergency braking (AEB), pedestrian detection, and within future AVs.