A thermographic survey tells you the truth about one day. Oxmaint pairs fixed thermal cameras with AI so switchboards, motors and bearings are watched continuously, comparing every reading against ambient and against the phase beside it, and raising a prioritised work order the moment a hotspot appears rather than the next time a thermographer visits. Start a free trial or book a thermal AI demo to see your own switchboards monitored.
Thermal Imaging Predictive Maintenance
Busbars and main connection points are the components that typically fail, and they keep failing on sites that run routine thermographic inspections. The reason is simple, and it has nothing to do with the quality of the survey.
Survey day is the one day your fault might not be hot
A survey needs the system at roughly 40% of maximum load to reveal heat-related faults. A connection that only overheats during a February peak, a night shift or a summer ambient will pass a March survey without a flicker.
Continuous monitoring does not replace certified thermography. It removes the 364 day gap between visits. Book a demo to see both working together.
Delta T severity, the way NETA reads it
A component at 60 degrees is not automatically a fault. If the phase beside it sits at 40 degrees under identical load, that 20 degree difference is the finding. Delta T is a comparison, not a threshold.
Exact bands come from ANSI/NETA MTS and depend on whether the reference is ambient air or a comparable component. Configure yours once and let the platform classify every reading. Book a demo to see your bands applied live.
Two measurements, two purposes
Getting these the wrong way round is the most common mistake in an in-house thermography programme.
Oxmaint applies both, per asset, so a bearing is judged against its rating and a busbar against its neighbour. Book a demo to see the configuration.
What continuous monitoring actually looks like
Fixed cameras on the assets that matter, feeding one view. Not a folder of images somebody has to interpret.
Illustrative view. Every alert carries the image, the reading, the reference and the asset history behind it. Book a demo to see this on your own switchboards.
Three reasons finance signs this off
Since 2023 the relevant electrical maintenance standard moved from recommended practice to an enforceable requirement for annual infrared inspection, and predictive programmes are associated with maintenance cost reductions of around 25 to 30%. Book a demo to see the compliance record it produces.
Where to fit cameras first
Not everything needs a fixed camera. Continuous monitoring belongs on primary distribution and high-consequence assets, with periodic survey covering the rest.
Everything else stays on a scheduled thermographic survey, tracked in the same platform. Book a demo to prioritise your own list.
Questions we get asked
Something not answered here? Book a demo and ask directly.
Bring your last thermographic report
In thirty minutes we will show you which of its findings would have been caught weeks earlier under continuous monitoring, and what the alert configuration would look like on your switchboards. No obligation, and the free trial runs without a credit card.
