Luxonis continues to add more and more sensors to their platform
We are thrilled to announce that our OAK-Thermal (OAK-T) is now available for pre-order in our Early Access store (here). Rounds of prototypes have already been completed and we’ll be shipping out our first mass production deliveries in the beginning of April. If you pre-order now then you’ll be first in line to receive our first production units.
The decision to add a thermal sensor to OAK was made by our customers who frequently requested the ability to fuse thermal data with high resolution RGB all on a compact edge device. The OAK-T opens up all kinds of new potential applications such as detecting leaks that the vision based systems (and humans) are unable to detect. Additionally, the OAK-T will be useful for detecting humans & animals, monitoring equipment, detecting fires, and much more!
Thermal cameras detect infrared radiation, which is emitted by all objects based on their temperature. We use a special IR-capable lens to focus the infrared light emitted by all of the objects/scene in view, which is then scanned by an array of infrared-detector elements ("pixels") in the camera. Here are some key technical details:
Thermal sensitivity: 50mK @ 25°C and 25Hz
Measurement range: -15°C - 150°C
Thermal Accuracy: ±2°C or ±2% (whichever is larger)
Sensor type: Uncooled VOx detector
Spectral range: 8-14µm
And now, a little more background on why Luxonis keeps adding so many new sensors to their platform.
At Luxonis, we are sensor agnostic. What this means in practice is that we are continually adding new and improved sensors to our platform. We are not married to any one type of sensor or approach as we work towards our ultimate goal which is to enable robotic and automation systems to exceed human level perception at every task.
We are able to support so many different sensors because we self-perform all of our engineering down to the bare metal up to the firmware drivers and software. For example, we already offer dozens of imagers that are fully supported by our DepthAI API (here) and these include a 32MP IMX582 option (here) along with a recently added IMX477-M12 (here).
The relentless addition of new sensors is not limited to only cameras. We already support inertial measurement units (IMU), infrared illumination, and infrared laser dot projector. Recently, we added our first Time of Flight (ToF) that is also available for order now with our next deliveries scheduled for mid-February (here). Luxonis has also supported other sensor types for custom development projects.
Stay tuned as we will be coming out with more new sensors this summer! If you have any ideas for more sensors that we should support please let us know at [support@luxonis.com](mailto:support@luxonis.com) or by posting on our forum.
You can pre-order our OAKs with new sensors now:
