Driven by lower costs for micro bolometers, image sensors, lenses and other components, the price of thermal cameras continued to drop as expected in 2014. Lower camera costs translate into lower barriers to entry for thermal imaging, which has in the past been prohibitively expensive for many potential end users.
Today, costs are a fraction of what they were even a few years ago and continue to go down,” says Matt Bretoi, vice president, North America field sales, for FLIR Systems, based in Wilsonville, Ore. “This has gone a long way to put the technology into the hands of everyday applications and to be more and more frequently the economical choice.”