Innovative Thermography Camera for Additive manufacturing

XIR1800 HDR SWIR Thermography camera from Xiris Automation Inc.

The XIR1800 High Dynamic Range Short-Wave Infrared (SWIR) thermography camera has been designed for use in critical metal joining and DED Additive Manufacturing. This traget applications includes WAAM, WLAM, CMT where thermal properties of key features need to be carefully controlled.

With its 640×512 pixels resolution, its 120dB dynamic range, its PoE interface, the XIR1800 camera provides a thermal temperature map to monitor key weld zones such as the melt pool, deposited material and the heat affected zone. Its GUI WeldStudio 3 Pro offers powerful thermal analysis tools, including temperature scale and value for each pixel, line profile, pixel reader, blob analysis, …

Advanced Vision for Welding and DED

Xiris Appoints New Distributor for France

TIG welding captured with XIR1800 thermal camera

Burlington, Ontario, Canada, March 2022 – Xiris Automation is pleased to announce that INNOVIDEA SAS has been appointed as its new distributor of Xiris Weld Camera products for France. 

M. Jean-Louis Lauront, president of INNOVIDEA, is a long time participant in the French market for scientific and advanced technology cameras.  Based in Paris, he will provide turnkey sales and support for the Xiris XVC and thermal weld camera product lines to end users, research institutions and machine builders for monitoring live welding and metal additive manufacturing processes to detect process and quality issues.

In entering into this relationship with INNOVIDEA, Cameron Serles, Managing Director for Xiris Automation Europe explains, “This appointment reflects our confidence in an excellent partner who has many years of experience selling advanced technology cameras to the welding industry and related markets, combining extensive academic and industrial equipment knowledge.  INNOVIDEA shares our values of a high level of commitment to ensuring customer satisfaction and continuous improvement of technical knowledge.” 

Xiris Automation Inc. specializes in developing optical equipment used for process and quality control across a number of specialty industries. With an extensive product line, Xiris provides some of the world’s most dynamic manufacturers with the ability to detect, recognize, and interpret quality defects in their manufactured goods.

For more information about Xiris, please visit our website: www.xiris.com  

Methane Leak Hunting

Detection tests conducted by Asman Technology for GRTgaz

ASMAN TECHNOLOGY and INNOVIDEA won altogether end of 2020 the OPEN INNOVATION contest from GRTgaz on “How to remotely detect possible gas leaks on the network?”

A proof of concept has been achieved succesfully at Jonzac Aeropole in September 2021 with different instruments embarked on ARLA600 light aircraft for detecting simulated methane leak on the ground.

Best results were done with TELOPS LWIR hyperspectral camera.

Ventus Micro camera

A Small & Smart HOT MWIR solution

Sierra Olympic Technologies launches on the market a SWaP cooled MWIR VGA camera named Ventus Micro ideal for Gimbal and UAV application.

Featuring a 640×512 10µm pitch detector (3.6 to 4.2µm) and a continuous zoom 16-180mm and weighting only 812g, the Ventus Micro is one of the best trade-off in its category. If interested please get into contact with us.

Ventus Micro

IRENE G200 from IDAO Engineering

Core Engine Module for MWIR/LWIR Cooled Detectors

INNOVIDEA’s partner IDAO engineering is launching a new core engine IRENE G200 compatible with SCD MWIR/HOT MWIR detectors (Pelican-D or Kinglet, Blackbird 1280 or 1920 version) and Lynred detectors (Scorpio MWIR/LWIR, Daphnis MWIR).

If you are interested by high frame rate or high resolution in cooled infrared, contact us.

Stake of industrial methane leaks

Drone payload for methane detection, quantifcation and localization

Methane CH4 is a critical greenhouse gas after C02 that has a high power of global warming. It is therefore essential to limit its non natural emission portion especially as scientists worry about permafrost defreezing.

Oil & gas companies have recently recognized the stake linked to fugitive emission that may arise to their assets along all process cycle (drilling, transport, storage, refining). The new biogas industry must also look into it. It is mandatory to fight efficiently any industrial leaks that can be found.

Infrared Cameras Inc turnkey and off the shelf solution for drone (UAV/UAS) in Optical Gas Imaging camera and spectrometer (represented by INNOVIDEA in Europe) constitute an efficient answer already with proven track in North America. The VGA Mirage camera coupled with 20Mpixels Sony and TDLAS spectrometer, all real time controlled from the ground through a single control module allow accurate detection and quantification. Cost of their use is quickly amortized when you add the decrease of accident risks, gas savings and impact on environment.

Innovation in Light Therapy

Photomed Technologies Inc unveiled its Vari Chrome Pro at A4M

INNOVIDEA is cooperating for a long time now with Photomed Technologies Inc in Kensington, CA in USA founded and managed by Allan Gardiner. Him and his son Jake were participating to the annual world congress of A4M (American Academy of Anti -Aging) in December and they both demonstrated the Vari-Chrome Pro non invasive light therapy tool.

The promising outcome for his invention opens new horizon in pain and wound domain. It is proposed as a turnkey platform called Rapid Confirmation System comprising Vari-Chrome Pro Device, Infared Cameras Inc 9640 medical thermography camera, visible 6Mpixels HDR camera for real time recording during therapy.

INNOVIDEA is born – INNOVIDEA est née

I am pleased to join the entrepreneur’s club and start the web site of my new company. Innovation and International are my DNA and I want other innovative entrepreneurs to take profit of my skills and experience.

Je suis heureux d’avoir rejoint le club des entrepreneurs et de démarrer l’activité digitale de ma nouvelle entreprise. L’innovation et l’international font partie de mon ADN et je souhaite mettre au service d’autres entrepreneurs innovants mes talents et mon expérience.

Jean-Louis Lauront