Thermographic Camera
A kinetic installation supplements a dummy model of a heating pipe with a screen and simulates the operation of a thermographic camera. Specially developed interface presents a thermographic image of the pipe while visitors move the screen along the pipe and helps to visualise and detect heat losses.
Concept visualizations
The screen is an industrial fanless panel computer with a 15.6" IPS matrix. The computer runs a Unity app which displays a real time thermographic image depending on the position of the screen. The position is determined by an absolute optical wire draw encoder.
Complete installation in the museum
3D CAD Model
The installation control system is based on a Siemens Simatic PLC. The PLC converts the data received from the encoder via PROFINET. Real-time data exchange between the PLC and the panel computer is performed via the PUP9000 (Pitch Universal Protocol) developed by the company.
Fragments of project documentation
The operation of the installation is fully automated due to integration with the museum's system of control and monitoring (SUMO). The installation works in fully automatic mode, switching on and off according to a schedule. MQTT with a Siemens PLC based client implementation is used as a universal transport protocol for data exchange between the installation and the central control system.
Credits
Made in PITCH
Client: Sila Sveta
Head of development: Vladimir Makhnov
Multimedia and Electrical engineer: Pavel Bezrodniy
Mechanical engineer: Anatoliy Krikunov
* Special thanks go to Alyona Kharitonova who was in charge of the content and visitor experience and helped to describe the ideas behind our technical solutions.
