A camera that sees heat, not light. It picks a person, an animal or a stalled vehicle out of total darkness, fog and oncoming headlight glare, hundreds of metres ahead, where a normal camera shows nothing.
Model C6
Every camera on this site reads visible light, which means it shares the eye’s weakness: a dark road, fog, or a wall of oncoming headlights, and the hazard is invisible until it is close. A thermal camera works on a different signal entirely. It reads the heat a body gives off, so a pedestrian in black on an unlit verge, a deer at the treeline, or a stalled car with its lights off all stand out clearly against the cooler background.
The C6 pairs an 8-to-14 micron thermal sensor with an AI box that finds those heat signatures and warns the driver. It flags a person beyond 200 metres and a vehicle beyond 400, far enough to give real reaction time at speed. The lens heats itself near freezing so it never ices over, and the IP69 sealing handles a pressure wash, while glare from headlights, which blinds a normal camera, simply does not register.
Heat signatures show a person, a cyclist or wildlife long before the headlights reach them, which is the gap where most night collisions happen. The AI box reads the thermal feed and raises a warning on a pedestrian ahead or an animal at the roadside, giving the driver time a visible-light camera cannot.
Fog, rain and snow scatter visible light but leave heat readable, and oncoming high beams that wash out a normal camera have no effect on a thermal sensor. The lens warms itself at around freezing so it stays clear, and the IP69 rating means a wash bay is no threat.
The AI box drives the view three ways: into a head unit over Apple CarPlay or Android Auto, wirelessly to a phone, or to an external monitor over HDMI. It is a quad-core unit with its own storage and a software-upgrade path, and it fits sedans, SUVs, trucks, RVs and vans without major changes to the vehicle.
| Thermal sensor | 384×288, 8-14 um |
| Focal length | 9.1 mm / 13.5 mm options |
| Field of view | 45×37° / 32×24° |
| Human detection | over 200 m (over 90 m wide FOV) |
| Vehicle detection | over 400 m (over 120 m wide FOV) |
| De-icing | lens heating near +2°C |
| Camera power | under 1W (under 5W with heating) |
| Camera sealing | IP69 |
| Camera size | 28 x 28 x 50 mm, under 150 g |
| AI box | quad-core 1.5GHz, 2GB / 16GB |
| Box outputs | USB-C, HDMI, dual M8, TF card |
| Display modes | CarPlay / Android Auto, phone mirror, HDMI |
| Working temp. | -20°C to +70°C |
| Brand / Origin | HOPE · Guangdong, China |
Where darkness and speed meet: long-haul trucks, coaches on night routes, rural and mountain roads, and any vehicle that drives where pedestrians and wildlife appear without warning.
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