Panasonic Automotive & Industrial Systems is selling an evaluation kit for its Grid-Eye infrared array sensor, which incorporates a Bluetooth Smart module and a microcontroller.
The kit is intended for prototyping the infrared array sensor which is a 64 pixel IR camera in a surface mount package measuring 11.6mm x 8mm x 4.3mm, which integrates the MEMS sensor, lens and I2C interface.
The integrated Bluetooth module in the evaluation kit, the PAN1740, draws 4.9mA in transmit or receive operating modes, which means it can be powered by coin cell batteries.
The IR sensor, which was introduced two years ago, has 64 thermopile elements in an 8×8 grid format that detect absolute surface temperature without any contact.
Applications include hot-spot detection, human detection and contactless temperature measurement.
