Explore our video borescope solutions
Waygate Technologies’ video borescopes provide cutting-edge remote visual inspection (RVI) solutions for industries where precision and reliability are essential. These high-performance tools enable non-invasive inspections with advanced imaging, robust measurement capabilities, and user-friendly interfaces, ensuring efficient and accurate results.
Advanced video borescopes
Our video borescopes deliver superior image quality with TrueSight™ imaging and Real3D™ measurement technology for precise, real-time inspections. Features like voice-activated commands and Menu Directed Inspection (MDI)software streamline your workflow, making inspections more efficient and reliable, even in the most challenging environments.
Unparalleled service
Beyond advanced tools, we provide comprehensive service plans that include preventive maintenance, expert training, and global support. With flexible service agreements, Waygate Technologies ensures your inspection equipment remains in peak condition, minimizing downtime and maximizing operational efficiency.
Versatile applications
Our video borescopes are designed for a wide range of industries, from aerospace to power generation, oil and gas, and beyond. Whether you’re conducting routine maintenance or tackling complex inspections, these tools are versatile enough to handle various challenges, ensuring that you have the right solution for every inspection scenario.
Borescope inspection cameras for your needs
In industries where precision and reliability are non-negotiable, professionals face numerous challenges during remote visual inspections (RVI). Whether in aerospace, power generation, or oil and gas, the stakes are high, and even the smallest oversight can lead to costly failures, safety hazards, and downtime. Here’s how our advanced video borescopes can help you overcome these challenges:
Accurate Defect Detection in Complex Environments
Our video borescopes deliver superior image quality with advanced features like TrueSight™ and DarkBoost. These technologies enhance visibility in low-light or difficult conditions, ensuring every detail is captured and increasing the probability of detection (POD).
Precise Measurements in Hard-to-Reach Areas
Real3D™ measurement technology provides fully surfaced point cloud representations, allowing for accurate, real-time measurements even in the most challenging angles and distances. This ensures critical areas are inspected thoroughly without the need for disassembly.
Operating Efficiently in Demanding, High-Stakes Environments
Our video borescopes are designed for durability and ease of use, featuring voice-activated commands and rugged construction that withstands harsh environments. This allows inspectors to work efficiently, even in the most demanding conditions, reducing the risk of equipment failure and downtime.
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Discover our borescope inspection cameras
Mentor Visual iQ+ VideoProbe
The most powerful and comprehensive video borescope inspection camera for your toughest industrial inspection challenges. This voice-commanded video borescope offers TrueSight™ HD imaging and military-grade ruggedness with advanced measurement and analytic capabilities to increase data reliability, while decreasing inspection time.
A powerful video borescope, designed for ease of use for critical industrial inspections, the MVIQ+ features:
- HD inspection camera with a variety of interchangeable probes and platform configurations, including UV and LongSteer
- Analytics including defect detection and automatic blade counting boost efficiency and reliability of inspections
- TrueSight Imaging provides a blend of high-resolution image capturing and processing functions, precision optics and a powerful suite of proprietary image transforms used to enable better visual inspection decisions.
- Real3D Measurement combines fully surfaced point cloud visualization, advanced measurement algorithms to enable more accurate and repeatable measurement decisions. Choose from three measurement technologies (3D Phase, 3D Stereo and traditional stereo).
Everest Mentor Flex VideoProbe™
As the pressure to complete inspections quickly and cost-effectively rises, the Everest Mentor Flex delivers. Combining portability with military-grade durability, this versatile video borescope empowers you to make smart decisions, fast.
- Wide XGA touchscreen display with improved brightness and viewing angles to increase the probability of detection.
- Streamlined Workflow: The intuitive interface with Menu Directed Inspection (MDI) simplifies tasks with digital tools for auto image tagging and report generation, enabling consistent, confident results.
- Advanced Mechanical Design: Increased articulation range and extended tool life allow thorough inspections in less time, boosting efficiency.
- Seamless Connectivity: Wireless video streaming and data transfer to iOS devices through InspectionWorks keeps you connected and in control.
- Precision Measurement: Real3D Stereo, traditional stereo, and comparison measurement interfaces provide accurate defect assessments, ensuring precise results every time.
XL Detect and XL Detect+ VideoProbes
Where performance meets value, the XL Detect family of video borescopes offers sharp, detailed image quality in an ultra-portable, durable, and lightweight design that minimizes user fatigue. Engineered to endure the toughest industrial environments, the XL Detect and XL Detect+ combine shock-absorbing materials and seals to resist impact, dust, and water.
- Vibrant LCD Screen: Experience best-in-class image quality with a larger, brighter screen, enhancing productivity and increasing the probability of detection (POD).
- Ultimate Portability: Lightweight and easy to use, the XL Detect allows you to move effortlessly from one inspection site to the next, providing on-the-go flexibility.
- Streamlined Inspections: The intuitive Menu Directed Inspection (MDI) feature automates tagging and organizing of images, simplifying the inspection process and aiding quick decision-making.
- Rugged Durability: Built to withstand harsh conditions, the XL Detect meets IP64 (IP55 for the XL Detect), MIL-STD-810G, and MIL-STD-461F standards, ensuring military-grade reliability and reduced maintenance costs.
Where video borescope inspections matter
Aerospace
Inspection & NDT solutions for the aerospace industry
Automotive
Inspection & NDT solutions for the automotive industry
Transportation
Energy
Batteries
Inspection & NDT solutions for the batteries industry
Research & Development
Why choose Waygate Technologies
Waygate Technologies leads the way in remote visual inspection with cutting-edge Video Borescopes designed for the most demanding industries. Our tools offer unmatched image quality, rugged portability, and advanced features to ensure accurate, efficient inspections. Waygate products serve the toughest industries with the most durable products.
- Power Generation: Our inspection cameras, with features like menu-directed inspection and real-time data backup, are crucial for consistent and efficient inspections of gas turbines and wind power gearboxes, even in the harshest environments.
- Oil & Gas: Built to withstand the rigors of field operations, our inspection cameras provide best-in-class light output and image quality, making them indispensable for inspecting tanks, tubes, and other critical components in oil and gas installations.
- Automotive: Enhance your inspection capabilities with our portable, high-quality inspection cameras, which allow for detailed inspections of engine blocks, hydraulic systems, and other components without the need for disassembly.
Our Video Borescopes not only deliver unmatched image quality but also offer innovative features like Real3D measurement technology, intuitive voice command interfaces, and rugged, portable designs. By choosing Waygate Technologies, you ensure that your inspections are not just thorough, but also fast, easy, and cost-effective, giving you the peace of mind that comes from using the most advanced and reliable tools in the industry.
Our product success stories
TrueSight™ provides a blend of high resolution image capturing and processing functions, precision optics and a powerful suite of proprietary image transforms used to enable better inspection decisions
With TrueSight™ imaging, Mentor Visual iQ delivers HD visuals, a high-intensity light source, and superior visual processing, for clearer, sharper videos and still images right on your device.
Measure from increased distances, too — increasing potential measurable surface area and probability of detection (POD).
The suite of image transforms is included in the Analyze model and available on Touch and Inspect models when ordering our Probability of Detection SW package. This POD SW includes: Adaptive Noise Reduction (ANR), Dark Boost, Distortion Correction, Inverse+, Variable High Dynamic Range (VHDR), and Color Saturation.
Real3D™ measurement combines an interactive fully-surfaced point cloud visualization, advanced measurement algorithms, an insightful 3D Surface Mask, and Dynamic Advisory Messages to enable more accurate and repeatable measurement decisions. Choose from three measurement technologies (3D Phase, 3D Stereo, and traditional stereo).
With HD-enabled digital zoom, you can hone in on even the tiniest indications mid-inspection. On-demand 3D Phase and 3D Stereo Measurement, powered by Real3D™ measurement, provides a fully surfaced point cloud for ultimate measurement confidence — helping you increase productivity and make the best possible asset decisions, faster.
Each of these technologies is compatible with some or all of our measurement types to help get the measurement needed in multiple applications. They include basics like length, depth point to line, and area, but also specialty types including depth profile, area depth profile, and measurement plane. Real3D measurement also utilizes a dynamic warning system that helps guide inspectors and avoid unintended errors.
Both of our XL Flex and XL Detect models offer a 5” display screen that’s 3x brighter, rugged design to withstand harsh environments, Menu Directed Inspection, and much more.
But the stereo measurement feature on our XL Flex model provides an in-depth evaluation of your defects, therefore a more accurate analysis.
XL Flex also provides best-in-class light output to increase the probability of detection (POD) in larger, darker areas.
The XL Detect runs on MDI 1.1, whereas the XL Flex runs MDI 2.0 and includes stereo measurement technology for in-depth indication evaluation. The XL Detect and XL Detect+ have 1GB and 4GB, respectively, compared to 4GB and 16GB for the XL Flex.
Our decades of expertise along with our global reach allow us to offer you service that is both quick and reliable.
We offer you technical support free of charge for the life of your product. Contact us via email at RemoteService@bhge.com or phone by calling +1 866 243-2638.
Other service offerings include rentals, repairs, advanced inspection solutions, and training. We'll be there to walk you through it every step of the way.
Learn more about how we can help you work smarter, faster, and safer to achieve the efficiency and accuracy you expect.
Your specific RVI needs will not necessarily be the same as another organization. To that end, we've created a diverse and flexible family of video inspection cameras, all with their own use cases and applications.
Our sales team offers consultations, including in-person or virtual demos, to help you figure out which Borescope will be the best fit for your inspection device needs.
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The MVIQ offers Wi-Fi and Bluetooth wireless connectivity. An auxiliary display may be connected via the DisplayPort digital video interface. There is a USB 3.0 micro-B port and two USB 3.0. type-A ports.
An iOS phone or tablet may be connected wired or wirelessly to the MVIQ for data transfer, as a remote monitor, or to perform full remote control of MVIQ operations using the iOS touchscreen.
The Mentor Visual iQ is a connected device that hosts a suite of digital tools used to make inspections consistent and efficient. On-device software updates, anywhere in the world. Real-time live collaboration with experts and customer-managed secure rich tagged data storage recalled from the cloud, all tailored to meet individual inspection needs.
A borescope, also known as a video borescope, industrial borescope, snake camera, or video inspection camera is another member of the Non-Destructive Testing (NDT) family of technologies that allow for the advanced inspection of assembled and production-level parts without harming the target material/objects in any way. Due to the nature of their design, borescopes are perfectly suited for the remote inspection of objects and materials that are otherwise obscured from the view of the naked eye.
One of the key benefits of a capable video borescope is that it can allow for the inspection of assembled parts without having to incur the time and resource loss associated with tearing the part back down, as well as the increased odds of additional damaged associated with tearing down and rebuilding just for inspection purposes.
At its simplest, a video borescope is comprised of a small camera on the end of a rigid or flexible shaft, in some instances with a light source accompanying the camera on the end of the shaft for greater visibility in tighter, darker spaces. On the other end of the shaft, there is a screen for viewing the real-time images from the camera end of the probe. Many models come with interchangeable probe ends for use in different applications, be they size, environmental, or light-affected applications.
Modern industrial borescopes are typically manufactured to rugged, mil-spec levels to endure the portability demands and environmental factors often associated with Remote Visual Inspection (RVI). Newer examples also come with onboard connectivity options for the off-device storage of inspection data as well as the ability to collaborate in real-time with a remote team of inspectors and technicians.
Some models of borescopes employ a moveable shaft that can be controlled, also known as articulation, via a small joystick or arrow pad on the handheld portion and allows the operator a greater degree of accuracy when inspecting thanks to the ability to reposition the camera (and accompanying light source) to obtain an optimal reading on a given area of inspection.
Most RVI applications that are suited to the use of video borescopes require little to no specialized training for the operator beyond becoming familiar with the way the borescope works, and perhaps the imaging and connectivity software onboard the camera.
Before determining the best way to use your borescope, you'll need to understand the factors surrounding your target inspection area such as:
- How deep is the inspection area, i.e. how long does my borescope need to be?
- How dark is the inspection area, i.e. do I need a light source, and if so, how strong? Can I adjust the intensity?
- Am I inspecting in a hazardous area?
- If the inspection area isn't a straightforward hole (as in the case of an engine cylinder, for example) do I require a flexible shaft?
- If I require a flexible shaft, do I require one that I can articulate so as to maneuver the camera around multiple obstacles, turns, kinks, or other impediments to my borescope camera's line of sight?
The use of video borescopes in and of themselves is pretty straightforward, the key is using the right borescope for the right application.
Our sales team offers consultations, including in-person or virtual demos, to help you figure out which Borescope will be the best fit for your inspection device needs.
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Borescope inspection is a non-destructive testing (NDT) method that uses a borescope, a specialized optical device, to visually inspect hard-to-reach areas inside machinery, engines, pipes, or other equipment. The borescope consists of a long, flexible or rigid tube with a camera and light source at the end, allowing inspectors to view internal components without disassembling the equipment. The live images or videos captured by the camera are displayed on a monitor, enabling the detection of defects, cracks, corrosion, or blockages. This method is commonly used in industries like aviation, automotive, and manufacturing for maintenance and quality control.
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