How Remote Video Inspections Can benefit Your Business

My friends will tell you I’m a gadget guy, and I can tell you that my favorite gadgets are cameras.  Whether it’s an old-school 35mm film camera or a modern Hero7 GoPro, I love experimenting with photographs and videos.  I’ve shot thousands of pictures on my DSLR on vacation and hours of video on my YouTube channel using a GoPro.  I’ve experimented with drone video and through that experience, I’ve started to realize that video can be used for all sorts of business and home-related endeavors.

Our local realtors now regularly use drone video to shoot compelling video of homes for sale and you can’t watch a home improvement show without watching them use a video remote inspection system.  After watching a home improvement show snake a camera down an old home drainage system, I was excited to learn more.  They used a system from https://librestream.com/solutions/remote-video-inspections/ and their results were amazing.

These remote video inspection systems are used to inspect aircraft engines, car and truck engines and all sorts of home and industrial applications and complex devices like https://lasermarktech.com/products/ecobalt or even JohnsonScale.com.  Best of all they are non-destructive and they don’t require the tear-down of an entire engine to get to the root of a problem.  I watched one of our local race shops identify a bad exhaust valve without tearing down the whole engine and a motorcycle shop inspect engine internals by pulling a few simple bolts.

In the home environment remote video can be used to inspect plumbing for leaks and clogs as well as simple tasks like identifying insulation gaps.  Snaking a wire through an old wall gets much easier when you can actually see what’s blocking the wire snake deep inside a wall or ceiling.  Roofing leaks in areas with little or minimal access can be easily identified and expensive mistaken repairs can be avoided.  Imagine replacing an entire roofing section only to find the actual leak is in a small cheap vent you couldn’t easily see.

One of my personal favorite applications for remote video inspections is relative to thermal imaging.  If you live in an older house it can be tricky to figure out where you are losing your heat.  I’ve personally replaced multiple windows and doors, I’ve blown insulation into our attic and foam insulation into our walls, I’ve replaced furnaces and even blocked off old fireplaces…only to find the house is still cold in winter.  And while you can get a normal thermal imaging system to tell you where the walls and windows in your house are getting cold, a remote thermal imaging system can tell you why it’s getting cold.  Something as small as an insulation gap or air penetration buried in a wall can cause heat loss and without remote video inspection, can be difficult to identify and repair.

At the end of the day I’m excited to try out a remote video inspection system for myself to see what stories my old home has to tell.  Whether it’s a leaky roof or that cold spot in the ceiling, I can’t wait to see what’s causing them and hopefully fix the problem more easily.