Thermal monitoring, alerts, and response paths in one system

AVIAN includes the camera hardware, monitoring software, notification workflows, and response paths needed to turn heat into action.

Fast setup, no custom engineering
Access from phone, tablet, or browser
Notifications, schedules, and escalation
RGB camera monitoring sawmill equipment
Thermal camera monitoring sawmill equipment
Thermal view
RGB view

Custom-built cameras

Our T100 camera is built for teams comparing FLIR A40, A50, A70, A500, and A700 camera-only setups.

Facility Manager

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Day Shift Crew

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Day Shift Supervisor

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Night Shift Crew

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Night Shift Supervisor

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Alert routing follows the shift schedule.

AVIAN notifies the team on duty and escalates to the accountable supervisor, so alarms do not depend on manual handoffs between shifts.

Live temperature history, accessible in AVIAN software.

Every reading is available in the dashboard, so teams can review trends, export history, and share evidence without touching the camera.

Mercer Timber Products
Blumer Lehmann
Sierra Pacific
Rubner
Friendli
Maple Rapids
Alvarez
Chinook Wood Products
Mission Forest
August Bruehwiler
“We’ve already prevented a fire”

While processing beetle-damaged wood, a splinter got stuck. The early warning triggered by the temperature increase enabled timely intervention and prevented an open flame.

Denny Friedrich
Denny FriedrichMercer Timber ProductsDeputy Plant Manager
“I can be anywhere in the mill, or even sitting at home”

I can be anywhere in the mill, or even sitting at home and get an alert from AVIAN and I know it’s time to act immediately.

John Brummel
John BrummelSierra Pacific IndustriesMaintenance Superintendent
“They represent a significant advance in fire protection”

The cameras give me peace of mind about the protection of my business. I can highly recommend AVIAN — the service and support during installation and operation is excellent.

Peter Wanner
Peter WannerWanner HolzCEO
“I’d argue it’s probably one of the best technologies as far as fire safety is concerned”

We had a gearbox that was overheating in our dust shed. Thanks to the alerts from AVIAN, we changed the oil in the gearbox and brought it back under normal operating conditions.

Peter Rempel
Peter RempelChinook Wood ProductsCOO
“Motors and drives that are operating at their performance limits have been identified”

The 24/7 monitoring, simple installation, continuous further development and the learning process of the system have completely convinced us!

Lothar Rosenbaum
Lothar RosenbaumAnton Rosenbaum HolzbauCEO
“We can now adjust our machines in real time—without shutting them down”

Temperature changes become immediately visible with the AVIAN system, allowing us to react without delay. This kind of predictive maintenance greatly increases technical availability.

Johann Zingl
Johann ZinglRubner HolzindustrieProduction Manager
“AVIAN gives us a new kind of security”

We can send our employees home at the end of their shift with peace of mind, because we know that the critical areas in our company are reliably monitored.

Valentin Niedermann
Valentin NiedermannBlumer LehmannHead of Technology
“Every planer mill should have an AVIAN system”

I can’t think of a reason why anyone wouldn’t want to install it.

Jim Anderson
Jim AndersonCharles Ingram LumberVice President

AVIAN Versus FLIR

With FLIR, you get a camera.
With AVIAN, you get an end-to-end solution.

Compatibility

FLIR

AVIAN

Fixed thermal camera

No engineering or networking expertise required

Accessible from your phone, ipad, or laptop anywhere in the world

Complete event history for traceability and knowledge sharing

Built in notifications engine (alerting, scheduling, escalation)

24/7 support - immediately configured on day 1 with AVIAN engineers

Get a thermal monitoring plan today

Share your equipment or process area. We’ll map likely failure points, provide a coverage recommendation, and show how early anomalies would be detected at your site.

"I can be anywhere in the mill, or even sitting at home and get an alert from AVIAN and I know it’s time to act immediately."

John Brummel

Maintenance Superintendent

Sierra Pacific Industries

View the full alarm record, not just the alert.

When AVIAN sends an alarm, your team gets the context needed to diagnose it: what the camera saw, what the thermal sensor measured, how temperatures moved over time, and which thresholds were crossed.

RGB context

See what was happening on the line

Thermal replay

Scrub the heat signature frame by frame

Trend history

Confirm when the warning threshold was crossed

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Trend data

Temperature history from the same event

AVIAN stores the alarm video with the temperature history, so the visual review and the trend line tell the same story.

Real event

No smoke on camera. A 380°F ember was buried in sawdust.

At Sierra Pacific Industries’ Lincoln facility, a planer ejected an ember into surrounding sawdust. The RGB view looked normal — no smoke, no visible flame. Thermal revealed the real issue: a 380°F hotspot buried under dust that could have ignited or caused a dust explosion.

Visible

No smoke or flame

Thermal

380°F hotspot

Risk

Dust ignition or explosion

By the time you see smoke, you’re already late.

RGB VIEW

Nothing obvious to see

Typical planer area — nothing visibly wrong. The ember was buried under sawdust, leaving no clear signal in the RGB view.

RGB camera view of the Sierra Pacific Industries Lincoln facility planer area with no visible smoke or flame

THERMAL VIEW

Buried hotspot measured near 380°F

Thermal immediately revealed the buried hotspot, giving the team time to clear material before ignition or escalation.

Thermal camera view showing a 380°F hotspot buried in sawdust near the Sierra Pacific Industries Lincoln facility planer

TREND DATA

Temperature history shows the issue developing

The event was not just a still image. AVIAN captured how fast the hotspot escalated from first warning to emergency alert.

Critical escalation window

+150°F in 8 minutes

Temperature increase from first warning to emergency alert

Stop building a monitoring program around a camera feed.

Get the cameras, detection, alerts, dashboards, and response paths in one AVIAN system.

Get a quote today

Full feature overview

Every T100 camera combines precision sensing, automated detection, and intelligent integration for continuous operation in industrial environments.

Monitoring & Coverage

Cloud Access

Access every camera from anywhere in the world through the AVIAN cloud dashboard on your phone, tablet, or computer. No setup required.

Multi-Zone Configuration

Define up to 10 temperature zones per camera for precise monitoring of critical components and surfaces

Live Streaming

Access real-time thermal and RGB streams from anywhere in the world through the AVIAN cloud dashboard

Detection & Alerts

False alarm detection

Industry leading false alarm detection to filter out noise from forklifts, loaders, welding sparks, and other routine industrial heat

Adaptive Thresholds

Temperature limits are dynamically adjusted based on learned baseline behavior, reducing false alarms while improving early detection

Notification schedules

Build per-team and per-shift schedules in minutes. Route alerts by day, time, severity, and role. Handoffs between shifts happen automatically.

Data & Reporting

Video Recording

Automatically capture RGB and thermal footage when alarms are triggered for post-event review and diagnostics

Historical Data

Access historical data and alarm history for the lifetime of the camera

Automatic Reports

Generate compliance and predictive-maintenance reports automatically from stored trend data for each monitored region

Integration-Ready Data

PLC-Ready Connectivity

Make real-time temperature data available to your PLC or controls team via MQTT, Modbus TCP, or EtherNet/IP

Tamper Detection

Receive instant alerts if a camera is obstructed, misaligned, or loses connectivity — with Ethernet-based PoE integration into existing networks

No custom engineering required

AVIAN handles the coverage recommendation, detection logic, alerts, dashboards, and integration-ready data paths—without months of configuration or custom engineering.

Technical specifications

Thermal Sensor

256 × 192 pixels

8–14 µm spectral range

Temperature Range

–15 °C to +225 °C

+50 °C to +550 °C extended

RGB Sensor

12 MP

66° or 102° FOV

Connectivity

Gigabit Ethernet

PoE IEEE 802.3af

Integration

MQTT / Modbus TCP / EtherNet/IP

PLC-ready data

Ingress Protection

IP66

Operating Temp

–10 °C to +55 °C

Housing

Aluminum

248 × 141 × 115 mm

Questions from teams comparing FLIR camera setups

Buying the camera is the easy part. The hard part is turning thermal data into reliable alerts, fast verification, and real response. AVIAN handles that work for you.

Why not just buy a FLIR camera and set alarms?+

FLIR makes strong thermal cameras. AVIAN is the system that makes fixed thermal monitoring useful day to day. We handle the coverage recommendation, detection logic, alerts, dashboards, RGB verification, and response paths—so your team is not stuck turning a camera feed into a monitoring program.

Do we need a thermal expert to use AVIAN?+

No. That is one of the main reasons AVIAN exists. Your operators should not need to understand emissivity, reflected temperature, regions, thresholds, and thermal tuning just to know when something is wrong. AVIAN turns thermal data into clear alerts your team can act on.

What work does AVIAN remove from our team?+

AVIAN removes the setup work that usually comes after buying cameras: deciding where they go, defining monitored zones, tuning alert logic, setting up notifications, building dashboards, and preparing data paths for PLC or alarm workflows. Instead of buying hardware and then starting an engineering project, you get a working monitoring system.

How quickly can AVIAN provide value?+

AVIAN is designed to be useful from day one. The system is deployed with the coverage recommendation, alert logic, dashboards, and response paths already planned. Your team does not have to spend months configuring thresholds, workflows, or integrations before it starts helping.

How do you reduce false alarms?+

AVIAN does not rely on one generic temperature threshold. We tune monitoring around your equipment, process, and normal operating behavior. The system filters irrelevant heat from people, vehicles, and background activity so alerts focus on equipment-driven changes that deserve attention.

Will we see what caused the alert?+

Yes. AVIAN pairs thermal data with RGB context so your team can quickly verify what is happening. That matters because a temperature alarm alone can still leave operators guessing. AVIAN helps show where the heat is, what equipment is involved, and whether action is needed.

Can AVIAN connect to alarm or shutdown workflows?+

Yes. AVIAN can route alerts to the right people and make temperature and alarm data available through MQTT, Modbus TCP, EtherNet/IP, or alarm workflows. Your controls team or system integrator stays in control of the PLC logic and any shutdown actions.

How do you recommend coverage?+

We design coverage around the areas where heat becomes risk: conveyors, bearings, motors, transfer points, electrical cabinets, silo legs, grinders, ducts, and other high-risk process areas. You are not expected to build the coverage recommendation or monitoring strategy yourself.

Does AVIAN replace manual inspections?+

It reduces dependence on them. Manual rounds are periodic. AVIAN monitors continuously, including nights, weekends, and times when no one is standing near the equipment. Your team can still inspect, but they are no longer relying only on scheduled checks to catch developing heat events.

What happens after installation?+

AVIAN continues to support the system after deployment. As your process changes, we help review events, tune detection, adjust coverage, and improve alert behavior. The goal is not just to install cameras. It is to keep the monitoring useful over time.

Can this help with insurance conversations?+

Yes. AVIAN gives you clearer evidence of operational risk controls: continuous monitoring, alert history, response paths, and documented intervention. Insurance outcomes depend on the carrier, underwriting process, site history, and risk profile. But AVIAN gives you stronger data to bring into those conversations.

Built for ROI.
Your money back if it doesn’t.

Thermal monitoring should reduce risk without adding another costly system to manage. AVIAN is designed to pay back quickly through avoided downtime, earlier intervention, and less manual inspection.

Payback measured in months, not years
First-year subscription protected
Every paying customer still in service

<6 months

Average ROI payback

Most AVIAN systems pay back in under six months through avoided downtime, earlier intervention, and reduced inspection labor.

12 months

Satisfaction guarantee

If you're not satisfied after 12 months of active monitoring, we'll refund your first-year subscription fees.

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Paying customers lost in 3 years

Zero paying customers have stopped service with AVIAN over the last three years.