7.8–14 µm spectral range catches body heat, engines, and thermal anomalies through fog, smoke, and adverse weather — where visible cameras go blind.
5.69M CMOS with 0.16 lux color sensitivity, 80′ Smart IR, and 120 dB WDR delivers court-usable evidence — even under harsh backlight or near-total darkness.
Long-wave thermal optics extend actionable range far beyond visible
cameras — detect a vehicle at 984 ft and a person at 394 ft, day or night,
through fog, smoke, and glare.
Draw ROIs and set min / max / average temperature thresholds. Trigger real-time alarms on overheating machinery, hot bearings, ignition sources, or unauthorized heat signatures.
Switch between White Hot, Black Hot, Iron, Cool, Amber, Indigo, Tyrian, Glory, and Envy to maximize contrast for the scene, task, and viewing conditions. Fatigue drops, targets pop.
On-camera classification of people and vehicles. Filter alerts by object type, direction, line crossing, dwell, tailgating, and logical rules.
Draw up to 40 independent zones and combine them with logical rules to eliminate false alarms in complex sites.
Trigger events on temperature signatures — engines, fires, mammals, or unauthorized ignition — even before intruders reach the fence.
Balances harsh backlight and deep shadow. Read license plates against headlights; see faces in doorway silhouettes.
Full-color imaging down to 0.16 lux with intelligently synced IR for crisp B/W in total darkness.
Operates -40°F to 122°F. DC-powered cold start at -40°F for the harshest perimeter deployments.
Sealed against dust and water, impact-rated against vandalism. Built for outdoor perimeters, not decorative lobbies.
Cleared for federal, government, and critical-infrastructure projects. 5-year warranty on every unit.
Substations, water treatment, telecom, and data centers. Detect intrusion before it reaches the fence.
Warehouses, ports, and container yards where sodium-vapor lighting blinds standard cameras.
Solar farms, wind sites, and pipeline corridors — long perimeters, low light, extreme temperatures.
NOTE:
Thermal cameras are subject to stricter export control requirements than standard visual cameras. DW provides thermal cameras at 9 fps to support compliance with export control regulations in most regions worldwide.
Under specific conditions, DW thermal cameras can provide accurate temperature measurements; however, they are not intended for human fever detection or for diagnosing, mitigating, or preventing any disease or health condition.
Thermal cameras — also called thermal imagers or long-wave infrared (LWIR) cameras — are sensors that visualize heat instead of visible light. Every object above absolute zero radiates infrared energy; a thermal camera reads that radiation and translates it into a live image where hotter objects appear brighter (or in a chosen color palette). Because they don't need any ambient light, thermal cameras see in total darkness, through smoke, and through most airborne obscurants.
A thermal core uses a microbolometer array — a grid of tiny detectors that change resistance as they absorb long-wave infrared radiation (7.8 – 14 µm on the DWC-XTBG05DiT). The camera samples every pixel's temperature many times per second, applies calibration and NUC (non-uniformity correction), then maps the resulting radiometric data to a false-color image using a palette like White Hot or Iron. Sensitivity is measured in NETD (noise-equivalent temperature difference) — lower is better; 65 mK means the sensor can distinguish objects that differ by only 0.065 °C.
Standard 'IR' security cameras use near-infrared (NIR) illuminators — invisible LEDs at ~850 nm — to light a scene, then capture the reflected light with a normal CMOS sensor. If the LEDs fail or something blocks them, the camera goes blind. Thermal imaging is passive: it detects long-wave infrared emitted by the objects themselves, so it needs no illumination, works through complete darkness, and is unaffected by headlights, glare, fog, or smoke.
Anywhere visibility is unreliable or heat itself is the signal: perimeter and critical infrastructure security (substations, water, telecom, data centers), logistics and container yards, solar farms and wind sites, ports and borders, petrochemical facilities, prisons, and airports. Radiometric features add fire prevention, machinery health monitoring, cold-chain and process monitoring, and early detection of thermal runaway in battery storage.
It combines two lenses in one housing: a 5MP visible-light sensor (2592×1944, 4.0mm F2.0) and a 320×240 thermal sensor (4.0mm F1.0, 7.8–14 µm spectral range). The thermal lens detects heat signatures for intrusion detection while the visible lens provides color and B&W footage for visual verification.
Yes. The thermal sensor detects intruders in total darkness, fog, smoke, or harsh weather where standard cameras fail. The visible lens also uses Star-Light Plus technology for color imaging in near-total darkness, backed by 80ft Smart IR for clear B/W images when needed.
AI-based object tracking with filters for zones and lines, tamper detection, metadata, intrusion, line crossing, counting, appear/disappear, stopped objects, enter/exit, direction, tailgating, dwell time, and logical rules. It supports up to 40 separate detection zones. Note: intelligent analytics apply to the visible lens only.
Yes. It integrates seamlessly with DW Spectrum VMS and is also ONVIF-conformant for compatibility with other systems.
Thermal detects — but a heat blob alone isn't court-usable evidence. A bispectral camera pairs the thermal core with a high-resolution visible sensor in one enclosure and one IP address, so every thermal alert is instantly cross-verified with a full-color image. One cable, one mount, one VMS channel, zero ambiguity.
Yes. The DWC-XTBG05DiT is NDAA Section 889 and TAA compliant, cleared for U.S. federal, state, and critical-infrastructure deployments. Every unit ships with a 5-year DW warranty.
