Case Study
All articles filed under Case Study — 48 articles.
Ladle Refractory Hot-Spot Monitoring in a Steel Plant
How a steel plant replaced chalk-and-eyeball ladle inspections with continuous thermal shell monitoring — catching refractory wear at the warm-shell stage and retiring ladles by data instead of by calendar.
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OGI Gas Leak Detection at a Petrochemical Park: LDAR with Cooled MWIR
How a petrochemical complex replaced sniffing thousands of fittings one by one with cooled-MWIR optical gas imaging — scanning whole pipe racks in minutes and finding leaks its LDAR program had missed for years.
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Wayside Thermal Detection of Overheating Axle Bearings on Freight Trains
How a freight railway rebuilt its aging hot-box detection points with modern radiometric thermal cores — cutting missed overheating bearings and false stops across a heavy-haul corridor.
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Onboard Thermal Monitoring of Pantograph-Catenary Contact on a Metro Line
How a metro operator moved pantograph-catenary inspection from a monthly night-window manual check to continuous onboard thermal monitoring on in-service trains — catching arcing and contact wear weeks earlier.
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Finding Missing Persons at Night: UAV Thermal Search and Rescue
How a county emergency response team cut its average missing-person search time from over five hours to under ninety minutes by putting thermal payloads on drones that work through the night.
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Dual-Spectrum Perimeter Protection for an Airport Fuel Farm
How an airport fuel farm replaced fence vibration cables and dusk-blind CCTV with dual-spectrum AI cameras — cutting false alarms 90% while gaining fire-watch capability over the tank farm in the same installation.
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Unattended Electronic Sentries on a Remote Border Section
How a border management unit covered 26 km of remote mountainous frontier with unattended dual-sensor sentry towers — replacing a patrol schedule that left most of the section unwatched most of the time.
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Forest Fire Watchtowers with Thermal Imaging: From Smoke-Spotting to Heat-Spotting
How a county forestry bureau upgraded eleven fire watchtowers with thermal PTZ cameras — detecting fires at the heat stage, through the night and through light haze, instead of waiting for visible smoke.
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Early Fire Warning in a High-Bay Automated Warehouse
How a 24-meter high-bay AS/RS warehouse added fixed thermal cameras above the aisles — catching smoldering pallets and overheating drive units that smoke detection, by design, sees far too late.
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