The first prototype of our thermal imaging camera is based on the Adafruit AMG8833 sensor, which has a resolution of 8×8 pixels. By using interpolation we can boost this up to 64×64 pixels.
The idea of this system is to use a GSM module in order to also save the geographical coordinates of every picture taken by the camera along with the 8×8 matrix of temperature values on the SDcard.
Later we can build an application to interpolate all of this pictures and make a giant thermal map of the entire field of solar panel.
Hardware components used:
- AMG8833 thermal imaging sensor
- Adafruit feather M0 board
- SIM808 GSM+GPS interface
Software components used:
- Arduino framework
- Python
