5 Fully Configurable Infrared Temperature Sensors and When to Use Them

Five infrared pyrometers with powerful configurable features for accurate measurements in industrial applications

In many industrial applications, infrared temperature measurement is straightforward. For example, a continuous web of non-reflective, non-metallic material like corrugated cardboard can easily be measured in low ambient temperatures with a simple sensor like the PyroCouple, straight out of the box, with no need to configure anything (except perhaps the 4-20 mA input scale on the connected instrumentation).

However, in some applications, the target material is partially reflective like glass or stainless steel, or there are gaps between objects where the sensor's measurement will be misleading, or the target is inside an oven and the sensor is not. In situations like these, the most basic sensor might not give good results, but a configurable sensor would provide much better accuracy.

In this article, we describe the features of configurable IR pyrometers, and outline 5 such sensors that include them.

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