Flir, part of Teledyne Technologies, has unveiled its FCB-Series AI thermal analytics camera, aimed at enhancing perimeter and site security.
This new addition to Flir's range of mid-tier infrared security products combines unparalleled thermal sensitivity of less than 20 mK with cutting-edge deep-learning video analytics. This integration allows for the precise identification and monitoring of individuals and vehicles, regardless of environmental conditions.
Incident prevention and reliable detection
The FCB-Series AI thermal camera from Flir is engineered to simplify complex and noisy environments, providing clear real-time views that enable security teams to act both swiftly and effectively. It offers various lens configurations, Nexus-enabled geolocation, and an IP67 rating for weather resistance, supporting easy deployment at sites of all scales. This camera assists businesses in swift detection and identification, helps avert incidents, and ensures site safety and operational efficiency.
Enhancing security through advanced features
One of the significant benefits of the Flir FCB-Series AI is its advanced deep-learning video analytics
One of the significant benefits of the Flir FCB-Series AI is its advanced deep-learning video analytics, which offers exceptional precision in identifying and categorising people and vehicles. This ensures businesses can easily discern actual threats from benign ones—such as moving foliage, raindrops on the camera lens, or small animals. The system prevents superfluous alarms from engaging the video management system (VMS) by ignoring movements from non-threatening sources.
Integration and situational awareness
Nexus-enabled geolocation is another feature that enhances situational awareness, particularly by coordinating with Pan-Tilt-Zoom (PTZ) cameras for detailed tracking of intruders across various site areas. By fostering a unified security framework, the camera promotes seamless data exchange among thermal and visible cameras, radars, and analytic platforms.
Thermal sensitivity and lens options
Designed for resilience, the IP67-rated camera withstands dust, heat, and rain
Offering a choice of five lens options ranging from 18° to 50° fields of view in VGA or QVGA resolution, the FCB-Series AI allows businesses to address varied site layouts efficiently. Its thermal sensitivity under 20 mK uncovers subtle temperature differences missed by conventional cameras, ensuring detailed imagery across different zones, whether it's a foggy parking area or a boundary under intense lighting.
Designed for resilience, the IP67-rated camera withstands dust, heat, and rain, delivering reliable thermal surveillance for different environments, including small to medium businesses, campuses, and energy sites. This includes applications like construction zones, warehouses, educational institutions, and solar farms.
Incremental security improvements
Amidst the growing concern over business thefts, an effective security strategy is vital. Contrary to the belief that implementing a new system means starting over, Flir favours a progressive approach that strengthens existing structures. By layering foundational systems, integrating cameras, using intelligence, and maintaining systems, businesses develop adaptable security setups that accommodate budgets while continually bolstering protection.
“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,” remarked Matt Strautman, Director of Global Business Development at Flir. “Our advanced thermal imaging combined with AI analytics ensures high-accuracy detection even in difficult weather or lighting conditions. With versatile lens choices, Nexus integration, and rugged design, our FCB-Series AI thermal camera not only offers precise protection but is an economical upgrade for outdated systems, integrating smoothly and providing valuable insights for faster decision-making.”
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.”
