- Victoria, Australia
Electrical faults get hot before they fail. Our infrared thermal imaging surveys find overheating connections, overloaded circuits and failing components inside your switchboards and equipment — before they turn into fires, breakdowns or unplanned shutdowns.
Almost every serious electrical failure follows the same pattern: a connection loosens, resistance rises, heat builds — quietly, invisibly, sometimes for months — until something melts, arcs or catches fire. By the time a fault is visible or smellable, the damage is usually done.
Thermographic surveying uses an infrared camera to see that heat long before it becomes a crisis. During a survey, a Techniko Group electrician scans your switchboards, distribution boards, connections and electrical equipment while they’re running under normal load. Hot spots show up instantly on the thermal image — a loose terminal glowing against its neighbours, a breaker running hotter than its twin, a phase carrying more than its share.
Best of all, it’s completely non-invasive. Nothing is switched off, nothing is dismantled and your operations continue as normal while we scan. That’s why thermal imaging has become a cornerstone of preventative electrical maintenance for commercial and industrial sites — and why many insurers now ask for regular thermographic reports on switchboards as a condition of cover.
Scanned Live, Under Normal Load
A standard visual inspection can only see surfaces. An infrared survey sees what’s happening electrically — and catches problems at the stage where they’re cheap and easy to fix.
The single most common cause of switchboard fires. A loose terminal creates resistance, resistance creates heat, and heat shows up on camera long before smoke ever appears.
Circuits carrying more current than they were designed for run visibly hotter. We identify them before insulation degrades or breakers start nuisance-tripping.
On three-phase supplies, one phase working harder than the others wastes energy and stresses equipment. Thermal imaging makes the imbalance obvious at a glance.
Protective devices nearing the end of their life often run hot under load. Finding them early means a planned swap instead of a surprise outage.
Bearings, windings and drive components under stress radiate excess heat. Regular scans of critical machinery help you schedule maintenance before failure schedules it for you.
Some defects are invisible when equipment is idle and only reveal themselves at full operating load — exactly the condition a live thermal survey captures.
Whether your insurer has requested a switchboard scan or you’re building a serious preventative maintenance program, we tailor the survey scope to what your site actually needs.
Comprehensive thermal scans of main switchboards, sub-boards and distribution boards — the highest-risk points in any electrical installation.
Thermal inspection of motors, machinery, control panels and critical equipment for industrial and commercial sites where downtime costs real money.
Thermographic reports prepared to satisfy insurer requirements for switchboard scanning — clear evidence of proactive risk management for your policy file.
Annual or periodic scanning programs that build a thermal history of your site — so gradual deterioration is tracked, trended and dealt with early.
Because we're licensed electricians — not just camera operators — we can repair the faults we find, then re-scan to prove the fix worked.
Every survey is delivered as a written report with thermal and reference images, temperature readings, severity ratings and prioritised recommendations — clear evidence of proactive risk management to satisfy insurer requirements..
A thermographic survey is one of the least disruptive inspections your site will ever have — and one of the most valuable.
We confirm which boards, equipment and areas to scan — whether that's one main switchboard or every board across a multi-site portfolio.
Our electrician scans your equipment while it operates normally. No shutdowns, no disruption — ideally at a time when your site is under typical or peak load.
You get a prioritised thermal report: what's healthy, what's warming up, and what needs attention now — with images that make each finding unmistakable.
We quote and complete any repairs, then re-scan the repaired points to confirm temperatures have returned to normal. Closed loop, documented.
Electrical faults are one of the leading causes of commercial building fires, and most of them develop as heat long before they ignite. Many insurers now request periodic thermal scans of switchboards as evidence that this risk is being actively managed. Our reports are prepared with this in mind — clear findings, images, severity ratings and documented rectification — so you can forward them straight to your broker or insurer.
No — quite the opposite. Thermal imaging works best when equipment is running under normal or peak load, because that’s when faults generate the heat we’re looking for. Your operations continue completely uninterrupted while we scan. The only physical intervention is safely removing board covers where needed, which our licensed electricians handle as part of the survey.
For most commercial and industrial sites, an annual survey is the standard rhythm, and it’s what many insurers expect. Sites with heavy electrical loads, ageing infrastructure or critical uptime requirements — manufacturing plants, cold storage, data rooms — often benefit from six-monthly scans. We’ll recommend a frequency based on your site’s risk profile, not a one-size-fits-all schedule.
A written report containing side-by-side thermal and standard photographs of each item scanned, measured temperatures, a severity rating for every anomaly found, and prioritised recommendations — from “monitor at next survey” through to “repair urgently.” It’s designed to be equally useful to your facility manager, your insurer and the electrician doing the repairs.
A camera can find a hot spot; it takes an electrician to understand it and fix it. Because Techniko Group’s surveys are performed by licensed A-Grade electricians, we can safely open live boards, correctly interpret what the thermal patterns mean electrically, quote the repair on the spot and complete it — then re-scan to verify. With a scan-only provider, you’d still need to bring in an electrician afterwards anyway.
Often, yes. The economics are simple: a survey costs a fraction of what a single switchboard fire, insurance excess or day of lost trading costs. For small sites we can bundle a thermal scan with other scheduled services — such as an electrical safety check or test and tag round — so you get the protection without a separate call-out.
From safety checks and quick repairs to large-scale installations, our experienced electricians provide tailored solutions that meet your needs.
Victoria, Australia
info@technikogroup.com.au
0455 035 705
