Overview

Contents

• What Is The SDK?
• What Can I Do With It?
• Where Do I Start?

What Is The SDK?

The Optris Thermal Camera Software Development Kit (short: OTC SDK) provides software developers with the resources they need to integrate Optris thermal cameras of the PI and Xi series into their projects. These resources include runtime libraries, API definition files and documentation.

Optris thermal cameras of the PI and Xi series.

What Can I Do With It?

With the SDK you can directly access the thermal data provided by the cameras. Once acquired you can process it, convert it into temperatures in degree Celsius or transform the data into false color images as shown below.

False color images depicting various household situations.

These capabilities are not just limited to single images and/or frames. The SDK enables you to stream that data as you require. To this end, the SDK supports both USB and Ethernet based connections to the cameras.

Besides the streaming of thermal data the SDK enables you to setup and control the cameras according to your needs.

Where Do I Start?

After the installation you best take a look at the provided Example Applications to get an idea on how to work with the SDK. But before that you can try out the precompiled example Simple View. Refer to the First Steps section in the Basic Usage chapter for more details.

The Start Developing chapter gives you instructions on how to setup/configure your development toolchains and how to integrate the SDK into your project.