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Spot Thermometer vs Thermal Imaging Camera

Thermal Camera vs IR Thermometer
for Temperature Screening

Non-contact infrared thermometers are some of the most common tools for temperature screening – but thermal cameras offer a lot of advantages over IR thermometers. Want to learn more about the differences between these tools? Read more below or checkout the video!

Time

First off, thermal cameras will save you time compared to IR thermometers. They’re much better suited to rapid screening in places like schools and large businesses where you need to screen lots of people at once.

Thermal camera systems allow operators to screen over a dozen subjects in just seconds. On the other hand, handheld IR thermometers or IR kiosk systems force people to stop for screening and often result in long screening lines.

More Cost-Effective

Even though most thermal cameras are more expensive than IR thermometers, you’ll find that thermal cameras will save you money in the long run. Using non-contact infrared thermometers requires significantly more staff members to run the screening station, which is an additional cost for the business or school. Thermal cameras are much simpler to use and only require one employee to run the screening station.

Safer

Thermal cameras will also help you avoid bottlenecks and long lines at your screening station. Most thermal camera systems can read temperature almost instantly, so there’s no waiting to take a reading. Thermal cameras will make your screening lines move much faster. That means you can keep people moving and prevent large crowds from building up, a crucial thing in the time of a pandemic.

IR Thermometers

Thermal Camera

Protect your Business

Thermal cameras document results so you have a record of all persons you have screened. For businesses, this is crucial if someone becomes sick. Having well-documented records means that your business is protected – you can easily search your results to find specific screening records with date, time, and temperature reading. That way you can prove that a person was screened and showed a normal or elevated temperature.

With an IR thermometer, you must document results on your own which can become complicated and disorganized. It’s much easier to use a thermal camera because every scan is automatically documented for you.

Easier to use

Thermal cameras also help prevent measurement errors due to misuse. With infrared thermometers, operator errors can easily skew your readings – these tools must be held perfectly perpendicular to the subject’s forehead at a specific distance, usually around six inches from the subject. If the angle and distance are wrong, your readings will be wrong too.

Thermal camera systems are much easier to use. They have much longer screening ranges, typically from three to five feet. That means you can get accurate scans within a much wider range, and you don’t need to stress about how you hold the camera. You can mount it in a fixed location and have subjects approach at a specific point. Overall, thermal cameras are much less prone to user error.

Overall, thermal cameras are faster to screen, more cost-effective, and easier to use than IR thermometers. They will help you screen subjects much faster and with better accuracy than IR thermometers.

If you have any further questions, please contact us at TEquipment. We have experts on staff ready to answer all your temperature screening questions.

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