Wednesday, September 02, 2020

Thermal imaging cameras: the business of the moment seeking to stay beyond Covid-19

Historic video surveillance players quickly understood the unusual demand for thermal imaging cameras, because some were already venturing into thermal equipment to detect temperature changes in industrial environments monitoring. To generate value in recent months, the software development for cameras aimed at “crowdlytics”.

In the e-security business, thermal imaging cameras are emerging as a new vertical, which will remain in the post-pandemic. Although now there is an urgent demand for devices capable of detecting human temperature - along with the presence of chinstraps and calculating the volume of people in a space -, traditional video surveillance actors and newcomers, due to the need of the moment, seek to add to it analytical functionalities so that the installed base of cameras in times of confinement and in the return to the "new normal" are consolidated as a service.

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