Innovative acoustic camera for industrial environments

The SV600, the first acoustic cam­era from Fluke Process Instru­ments, is designed to detect gas leaks and mechan­i­cal faults and weak­ness­es. Chang­ing noise char­ac­ter­is­tics of machin­ery and equip­ment are detect­ed and report­ed in real time before cost­ly and time-con­sum­ing repairs are need­ed. Using an array of sophis­ti­cat­ed sound sen­sors, a visu­al cam­era and pow­er­ful SoundMap tech­nol­o­gy, the sys­tem gen­er­ates sound images that can be used to quick­ly locate and assess poten­tial fault sources. The cam­era allows easy inte­gra­tion into oper­a­tions con­trol systems.

The acoustic cam­era is suit­able for qual­i­ty con­trol in mechan­i­cal engi­neer­ing as well as for con­tin­u­ous mon­i­tor­ing of equip­ment such as com­pres­sors, pumps, pipes and con­vey­or belts, where it detects changes in noise emis­sions at an ear­ly stage. User-spe­cif­ic alarms and com­pre­hen­sive remote analy­sis options make inter­ven­tion by ser­vice per­son­nel unnec­es­sary in many cas­es. This reduces costs, not least in plant areas that are dif­fi­cult to access. The inno­va­tion is also avail­able as an acces­so­ry for mount­ing on the Spot mobile robot from Boston Dynamics.

This slim quadruped takes auto­mat­ed inspec­tion to a new lev­el: it can inspect places that are inac­ces­si­ble to oth­er robots, includ­ing uneven ter­rain, and pro­vides users with insight into remote areas and haz­ardous zones. The prod­uct is avail­able now.