An On-line Temperature Monitoring Device

The paper has proposed an on-line temperature monitoring device, which can be used to acquire thermal information. Specifically, this device is a binocular IR camera, whose size is only 3 cm×3 cm×4 cm. The device, which is powered by a remote Power over Ethernet (PoE), can be installed near measured objects and responsible for collecting both visible-light images and IR array data of objects. Additionally, the data is transmitted through the same cable, which is convenient. Furthermore, the IR-fusion module in this device is able to fuse temperature array data and image data collected by the binocular IR camera and produces an IR-fusion image. The device has been tested in the laboratory.