FLIR Educational Discount Program

Put the Power of Thermal Imaging in Your Students’ Hands!

A FLIR i7 thermal imager is one of the most powerful and flexible diagnostics tools a tradesman can carry today. And there’s a high demand from students eager to learn about this vital technology. That’s why FLIR is offering educators a 60% discount, making it incredibly affordable to add one to your program.

With an i7, you’ll be providing students an opportunity to discover the amazing ways thermal imaging finds problems that are normally invisible so they can readily see where to make repairs to save the day. This is cutting-edge technology that will go a long way to enhance their skills and help them gain a distinct advantage in today’s workplace.

Numerous Applications – Find hidden air leaks, missing insulation, moisture intrusion, electrical overloading, mechanical wear, and other thermal anomalies to help reduce energy waste, downtime, and safety hazards.

Beats IR Thermometers Hands Down – Get thousands of temperature measurements in every thermal image to show you the whole scene instead of working blind with only one spot reading at a time.

Exceeds RESNET Requirements – FLIR i7’s 140 × 140 detector delivers 19,600 pixels of IR resolution to capture the temperature measurements necessary to complete the thermal picture.

Compact Point-and-Shoot Simplicity – Light at 13 ounces (365g) for easy, one-handed operation yet tough enough to take a 2 meter drop and stow with other tools. Plus a focus-free lens and bright LCD to help you see the whole thermal scene clearly and cover more ground efficiently.

Camera & Training Support – Along with the i7, we’ll provide a DVD with downloadable guidebooks and videos plus plenty of help from FLIR and the Infrared Training Center to get you up and running. ITC also offers continuing education opportunities for your students as through online and classroom camera and thermography training courses.

For more information and to register for the program, use the link below: http://www.flir.com/thermography/americas/us/view/?id=57407

* Available to certified educators for classroom teaching at vocational and technical schools only, subject to approval by FLIR.

Measuring Body Temperature with an Infrared Camera

by Mikael Cronholm and Gary Orlove

From a biological standpoint, human beings are so called warm blooded animals. That means that we maintain a fairly constant body temperature, regardless of the surrounding temperature. The term body temperature (that we compare with when we decide whether a person has a fever or not) refers to the inside temperature, or core temperature of the body. The outside of the body is nearly always colder. It must be, because as we convert the energy from our food when we do work, we also produce heat. That heat has to go somewhere and if the outside and inside temperatures were the same, no heat transfer would be occurring.

None of us have a constant metabolism, or energy conversion, over time. It varies with our activity level. That means that the amount of heat we need to lose also changes with time. Our surrounding temperature also changes up and down, which means that sometimes we need to conserve heat and sometimes we need to increase the cooling by increased evaporation of liquid, we start to sweat more. Sweating is something we always do, just more or less depending on the situation.

To be able to use non-contact measurement for fever screening purposes, we need to find a point on the outside of the body that is close to the inside temperature – our “body temperature”. Because the outside is colder, and varies from place to place on the body, it is obviously the highest temperature on the outside of the body that is also the closest to the inside temperature. So we want to look for a warm spot on the outside.