Flir, a division of Teledyne Technologies, has unveiled the FCB-Series AI thermal analytics camera, designed to enhance perimeter and site security.
This new product in Flir's mid-range infrared security line combines robust thermal sensitivity—less than 20 mK—with advanced deep-learning video analytics. These features ensure precise and reliable detection of both people and vehicles, irrespective of environmental conditions.
Preventing Costly Security Incidents
The FCB-Series AI thermal camera is engineered to provide clarity in chaotic and noisy environments, allowing security teams to respond swiftly and efficiently.
With multiple lens options, Nexus-enabled geolocation, and an IP67 ingress protection rating, the camera offers flexible installation across a variety of sites. It aids businesses in detecting, classifying, and responding to potential threats, thus preventing costly incidents and ensuring the smooth operation of processes.
Enhanced Identification and Classification
The FCB-Series AI enables precise identification and classification of individuals and vehicles
Equipped with advanced deep-learning video analytics, the FCB-Series AI enables precise identification and classification of individuals and vehicles. These onboard neural networks differentiate between real threats and false alarms, such as moving trees or rain on the camera lens.
This ensures that unwarranted alarms do not trigger the video management system. When equipped with Nexus-enabled geolocation, the camera enhances situational awareness and facilitates seamless tracking of intruders using a pan-tilt-zoom (PTZ) camera.
Broad Coverage Options
The camera offers five lens options, ranging from 18° to 50° fields of view, in either VGA or QVGA resolution. This allows businesses to cover extensive perimeters or navigate tight corners and complex building layouts without blind spots. Featuring industry-pioneering thermal sensitivity of less than 20 mK, the FCB-Series AI detects subtle temperature differences that other cameras may overlook, ensuring accurate surveillance across various settings.
Versatile Application Sites
Designed for harsh environmental conditions, the rugged IP67-rated camera withstands dust, heat, and rain. It provides an economical solution for thermal detection across diverse applications including:
- Construction sites, warehouses, and shopping malls
- Educational campuses and industrial plants
- Remote installations like solar farms and utility storage yards
Incremental Security Enhancement
With an uptick in thefts and burglaries, improving security systems is paramount
With an uptick in thefts and burglaries, improving security systems is paramount. While some fear this may mean starting from scratch, Flir offers a layered approach that builds upon existing systems through camera integration, intelligence adoption, and maintenance.
This strategy allows businesses to meet budgetary constraints while continuously enhancing security.
Expert Insights on Advanced Security
"If you suffer from false alarms due to non-threat movements or challenging detection conditions, our FCB-Series AI will enable you to see more, know more, and protect more," said Matt Strautman, Director of Global Business Development at Flir.
"With advanced thermal imaging and AI analytics, our camera ensures high accuracy even in difficult weather or lighting conditions. Its flexible integration options and robust design make it a practical choice for upgrading outdated security systems."
Flir, a Teledyne Technologies company, is introducing its FCB-Series AI thermal analytics camera for robust perimeter and site security.
This innovative addition to Flir's mid-range infrared security line-up merges weather-resilient, lighting-agnostic thermal sensitivity of <20 mK with advanced deep-learning video analytics. The result? Accurate and dependable detection of people and vehicles, inside or outside, whatever the conditions.
Preventing costly incidents
Flir’s new FCB-Series AI thermal camera transforms chaotic and noisy environments into clear, reliable views that security teams can respond to effectively and efficiently. With various lens options, Nexus-enabled geolocation, and robust IP67 ingress protection rating, the sensor supports seamless installation at locations of all sizes.
With the Flir FCB-Series AI thermal camera, businesses can detect, classify, and respond faster than ever, helping to prevent costly incidents and maintain safe and efficient operations.
Supporting reliable identification
Beneficial features of the Flir FCB-Series AI:
Advanced DNN deep-learning video analytics support reliable identification and categorisation of individuals and vehicles with exceptional precision. With the help of these sophisticated onboard neural networks, businesses can distinguish between genuine threats and false alarms, such as moving trees, rain on the camera lens, or inquisitive small animals. When the wind shakes a construction tarpaulin or foliage swirls during a storm, the FCB-Series AI remains silent. Unnecessary alarms no longer trigger the VMS (video management system).
Nexus-enabled target geolocation facilitates situational awareness and precise hand-off to a PTZ (Pan-Tilt-Zoom) camera for close-up tracking of an intruder around corners, along fences, or between buildings. Forming a cohesive security ecosystem, this workflow promotes real-time data sharing and interoperability among thermal cameras, visible cameras, radars, and analytics platforms.
Subtle temperature differences
Five lens options from 18° to 50° field of view (VGA or QVGA resolution) let businesses cover long fence lines, tight corners, and irregular building layouts without blind spots. Difficulty in matching security coverage to different sites becomes a challenge of the past.
Industry pioneer thermal sensitivity of <20 mK reveals subtle temperature differences that standard thermal and visible cameras miss. Crystal-clear thermal means sharper, more detailed images across entrances, parking areas, and perimeter zones for faster and more accurate detection. A person cutting between parked trucks in a foggy yard or walking along a campus boundary lit by harsh floodlights, still appears as a crisp thermal profile.
Wide application range
Easy to install, the rugged IP67 camera is built to endure dust, heat, and driving rain, providing cost-effective, reliable thermal detection across a host of perimeter, small area, and remote site applications. These include:
- Small-to-medium commercial businesses: construction sites, warehouses, shopping malls.
- Campuses and industrial plants: education facilities, business parks, factories.
- Energy and remote installations: solar farms, utilities, storage yards.
Effective security system
As thefts and burglaries at businesses continue to rise, implementing an effective security system is crucial. However, many believe that adopting a new security system requires a complete overhaul that users have to start from scratch.
Not so with Flir, which employs a smart multilayered strategy that enhances security incrementally through foundational systems, camera integration, intelligence adoption, and maintenance. This approach enables businesses to develop a system that adapts to their site while maintaining budgetary constraints and ensuring continuous security improvements.
Continuous security improvements
“If you suffer with false alarms from non-threat movement or weather, inconsistent detection in challenging conditions, or complex system integration and calibration needs, you will see more, know more, and protect more with our FCB-Series AI,” said Matt Strautman, Director of Global Business Development, Flir.
“Advanced thermal imaging and AI analytics collaborate to deliver high-accuracy detection, even in adverse weather or lighting conditions. With flexible lens options, Nexus integration, and rugged all-weather design, our FCB-Series AI thermal camera is not only the smart choice for precise and reliable protection, it’s a cost-effective way to upgrade an outdated security system. It will integrate seamlessly with your current set-up and provide insights that expedite your decision making.”
