Reasons for Using IR Instruments

As the result of improvements in performance, precision, packaging, and software, these instruments are finding new applications every day in areas as diverse as law enforcement, biological threat detection, machine vision, and firefighting. 

Although conventional methods of temperature measurement using thermometers and thermocouples are still commonly used for many applications, IR sensors have become less expensive, more reliable, and electrically interchangeable with conventional thermistors and thermocouples. For this reason, noncontact measure- 

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