Thermal imaging in fuzzy condition monitoring

The procedure of monitoring the condition of processes is called condition monitoring. Condition monitoring is one of the most important part of any system which could be managed and controlled by thermal imaging system. This paper attempts to show the capability of thermal imaging in condition monitoring. According to the characteristic of thermal images, the goals of this paper are: (a) introducing a new metric as thermal condition monitoring measurement, (TCMM) (b) detecting of fault location, and (c) define a new concept of thermal image fuzzy condition monitoring system as a priority level classifier to identify type of condition and sending the correspond recommended action. The advantages of the proposed schemes are: (a) thermal imaging condition monitoring system doesn´t need to access high-level knowledge about the system and, (b) using the proposed system cause to reduce number of thermal instruments and make the data send/receive protocol more reliable. Experimental results show the effectiveness of the proposed methods on condition monitoring system and control.