Phidgets has released the 1045 - Phidget Temperature Sensor IR, which provides non-contact temperature measurements from -70 to 380C.
The thermometer is factory calibrated and connects directly to a computer's USB port.
Applications: sensing and measuring surface temperatures without surface contact; alarming alert for over-temperature conditions; temperature sensing element for residential, commercial and industrial building air conditioning; human or animal presence detection; movement detection; body-temperature measurement.
Product specifications; field of view 10deg ambient (board); temperature range -40 to 125C; resolution - 0.02C; object temperature range -70 to 380C; resolution 0.02C; accuracy - +/-0.5C at room temperature; assumed object emissivity 1.0; current consumption 27mA; USB voltage 4.75-5.25V DC; temperature update speed 32ms; operating temperature - 0-70C.
Software environment: users can program Phidgets using a simple yet powerful and well documented Application Programming Interface (API) that is supported under Windows (2000, XP, Vista), Windows CE, Mac OS X and Linux.
Users can write programs in Visual Basic, VB.NET, C#, C/C++, Flash/Flex, Java, Labview, Matlab, Actionscript 3.0 and Cocoa.
Phidgets also provides programming examples for all its products to help programmers write their own programs.
