Is infrared camera harmful to human body?

Is infrared camera harmful to human body?

Infrared ray is a kind of ray just like ultraviolet ray, and it is well known that ultraviolet ray is harmful to human body, so is infrared camera harmful to human body?

As long as the temperature of an object is higher than this temperature (-273℃), molecules and atoms will move irregularly, and their surfaces will continuously radiate infrared rays. Infrared ray is an electromagnetic wave with a wavelength range of 0.78~ 1000μm, which is invisible to human eyes and can reflect the infrared radiation field on the surface of an object, that is, the temperature field.

The infrared energy radiated by an object is different at different temperatures. The higher the temperature, the greater the infrared energy radiated.

Infrared ray is a kind of thermal radiation, which will cause high temperature damage to human body, and strong infrared ray will also cause skin damage, similar to scald. The infrared camera only records the infrared rays emitted by the object, and the camera itself does not emit infrared rays, so it is generally harmless to the human body.