Madison Technologies overcomes challenges to win Mobotix project of the year award

Staff from Madison Technologies’ Industrial IT&C team were pleasantly surprised last month when they were presented with the Project of the Year Award at the annual Mobotix Product and Innovations Workshop held in Sydney.

Madison Technologies was recognised by Mobotix for the innovative use of M15 thermal cameras in a large-scale safety monitoring system deployed on a heavy industrial project in Victoria. The solution required monitoring of stockpiles for rapid temperature change and integrating this information into an existing on-site alarm monitoring system.

Madison’s IT&C general manager, Lee Papadimitrious, said, “We were quite fortunate to secure this opportunity as the customer had already selected a thermal vendor, based upon currently available technology. Once we (Madison and Mobotix) presented our value proposition to the end customer, they were blown away with the flexibility and robustness of the Mobotix thermal solution.

“The commercial benefits were particularly significant, especially considering the project budget had already been defined based upon a much less cost-effective solution. Using Mobotix, the customer was able to invest the full project allocation on a thermal solution delivering significant increases in the total site coverage area, level of detection and overall site safety,” he said.

As well as the environmental challenges, the client’s current integration standards required some outside-of-the-box thinking to allow any of the thermal cameras to provide a centralised alarm into the SCADA package.

The project was, up until last month, the largest single order of thermal cameras globally for the IP camera solutions manufacturer Mobotix.

Madison has developed significant in-house technical expertise, having been a trusted Mobotix partner for many years, and now enjoys the challenge of working with the latest in thermal technology from Mobotix. This fresh approach to thermal imaging, as well as the commercial positioning as an enabler to more innovative solutions, is driving the uptake of the technology into applications which were once considered cost-prohibitive.