For a thermography team inspecting a data centre, the survey is the fast part. The bottleneck is turning hundreds of images into consistent, insurer-ready reports across multiple engineers and sites. Here is exactly how SnapCor removes that bottleneck, powered by the proven TICOR engine.
A data centre thermographic inspection can generate several hundred findings across main LV switchgear, UPS systems, PDUs, busways, and rack feeds. Capturing those images is rarely the slow part. The real bottleneck, and the biggest source of inconsistency, is turning all of it into a clean, structured, insurer-ready report.
For a team, that bottleneck multiplies. Three engineers on a large site each produce findings that have to be graded consistently, formatted identically, and combined into a single coherent report the client can rely on. Do it manually and you get three different-looking outputs, inconsistent severity grades, and days of post-processing before anything reaches the facilities manager.
This is the exact problem SnapCor was built to solve. Built on the TICOR reporting engine and refined across thousands of inspections by Ti Thermal Imaging Ltd, SnapCor turns a team of thermographers into a single, consistent reporting operation. This article walks through exactly how it speeds up data centre reporting for teams, section by section.
Want to see it in action? Download SnapCor free on Google Play and run your first data centre inspection. See SnapCor pricing and plans for team and enterprise options with shared dashboards and central reporting.
The Real Bottleneck in Data Centre Reporting
Before looking at how SnapCor speeds things up, it is worth being precise about where the time actually goes. For a team inspecting a data centre, the traditional workflow looks like this:
- Each engineer captures images on their camera during the survey.
- Images are downloaded to a laptop, renamed, and sorted into folders.
- Temperatures and load are typed into spreadsheets, and Delta T is calculated by hand.
- Severity is graded, often differently by each engineer.
- Everything is pasted into a Word or PDF template and formatted.
- The separate outputs from each engineer are merged into one report.
- The combined report is reviewed, corrected, and finally sent, often days later.
For a large data centre, steps two through seven can consume days of a team's time. And every manual step is a chance for inconsistency to creep in. This is the bottleneck. SnapCor removes it by collapsing capture, calculation, grading, and reporting into a single on-site workflow that every engineer on the team runs identically.
1. Every Engineer, Any Camera, One Workflow
Data centre teams often run a mix of camera brands across engineers, regions, and hire fleets. Standardising on a single manufacturer before you can standardise reporting is expensive and impractical.
How SnapCor does it: SnapCor is camera-agnostic and works with any thermal imaging camera that exports standard image formats, including FLIR, Fluke, Hikmicro, Testo, Seek, Workswell, and InfraTec. Every engineer on the team imports images into the same workflow regardless of the camera in their hand, so the reporting is standardised even when the hardware is not.
2. An Inspection-Led Structure That Enforces Consistency
The biggest cause of inconsistency across a team is that each engineer works slightly differently: different note-taking, different templates, different order of work. When those individual habits feed into one report, the result is uneven.
How SnapCor does it: SnapCor mirrors how thermographers actually work on site. Each engineer builds the client, site, and asset structure in the app, walks the route capturing images and measurements directly against each asset, and logs faults with Delta T, load, severity, and recommendation as they find them. The process itself enforces consistency. Nobody is hunting for the right spreadsheet, because the structure is built into the workflow every engineer uses.
3. Identical Severity Grading Across the Whole Team
If two engineers grade the same UPS terminal differently, the report loses credibility with the facilities manager and the insurer. Consistent fault grading across a team is one of the hardest things to achieve manually, because grading involves judgement and judgement varies between people.
The four-tier scale used across data centre thermography is Minor, Important, Serious, and Critical. The grade should be based on the load-corrected temperature, not the raw reading, because a fault inspected at partial load looks far less severe than the same fault at full load. Getting this right consistently, across a whole team, is where a shared engine matters.
How SnapCor does it: Because SnapCor is powered by the TICOR electrical module, every engineer's findings run through the same centrally managed formulas for Delta T and load correction, aligned to BS7671 principles, and the same severity grading rules. The same fault gets the same grade regardless of which engineer is on site. This single feature removes the biggest source of inconsistency in team reporting.
4. Shared Root-Cause and Remedial Libraries
When each engineer writes fault descriptions in their own words, a data centre report reads like it was written by five different people, because it was. For facilities teams and insurers comparing findings across a site or a portfolio, that inconsistency is a real problem.
How SnapCor does it: SnapCor provides shared drop-down libraries of common data centre fault types and remedial actions, informed by Ti Thermal Imaging's field experience. Instead of writing prose, each engineer selects the cause and recommended action from standardised libraries. Every finding across the team is described in the same clear, professional language, whether it is a loose busbar joint, a phase imbalance on a UPS output, or an overloaded PDU way.
5. A Central Dashboard That Turns Engineers Into a Team
The hardest part of team reporting is coordination. Who has inspected which hall? Which findings are complete? Where are the Critical issues that need immediate attention? Without a shared view, managers spend the inspection chasing updates and the reporting phase reconciling separate files.
How SnapCor does it: SnapCor syncs each engineer's inspection to a central cloud dashboard. Team leaders see live status across every active inspection, review findings before they reach the client, and retrieve historic data for any site from one place. On a multi-engineer data centre survey, the manager sees the whole picture in real time rather than assembling it afterwards. Team and enterprise plans, available on the SnapCor pricing page, include the shared dashboard, unlimited storage, and multi-site management.
6. Built for Complex Busbar Runs and Full-Coverage Proof
Large data centres feature long busbar trunking runs feeding white space, with many tap-offs, panels, and joints. Ensuring every one is inspected, and proving it to an auditor, is a genuine challenge for a team working across a large floor.
How SnapCor does it: SnapCor's busbar inspection workflow lets engineers map tap-offs and joints as individual assets in an ordered route, showing which sections are complete, which are trending, and where the biggest Delta T changes are between inspections. This makes it straightforward to prove full coverage for each cycle, track specific joints over time, and demonstrate to insurers that busbar runs are being systematically managed.
7. Trending That Turns Annual Surveys Into a Condition Record
For data centres on annual or six-monthly inspection programmes, the real value is not any single report. It is the trend: whether a connection is stable, deteriorating, or accelerating toward failure, and whether last year's remedial work actually resolved the issue.
How SnapCor does it: Because SnapCor captures structured data rather than just images, it automatically trends Delta T and severity for each asset across successive surveys, flags recurring faults, and shows whether completed remedial works closed the risk. For a team managing a data centre portfolio, this turns a series of inspections into a long-term condition record that supports capacity planning, insurance negotiations, and NFPA 70B-aligned maintenance evidence.
The Payoff: Team Reporting Before and After SnapCor
Teams using the TICOR engine that powers SnapCor consistently report cutting a large share of total inspection and reporting time, because the reporting happens as they work rather than as a separate phase afterwards. For a data centre team, that is the difference between the client waiting days for documentation and receiving a complete, insurer-ready report the same day.
Frequently Asked Questions
How does SnapCor keep reporting consistent across a team of thermographers?
SnapCor runs every engineer's findings through the same TICOR-powered formulas for Delta T, load correction, and severity grading, and provides shared root-cause and remedial libraries. The same fault gets the same grade and the same description regardless of which engineer captured it. You can try it free on Google Play.
Can multiple engineers work on the same data centre inspection?
Yes. On team and enterprise plans, multiple engineers sync to a shared central dashboard, so a large data centre survey can be split across engineers and combined into one coherent report. Team leaders see live status and review findings before they reach the client. See SnapCor pricing for team plan details.
How much faster is SnapCor than manual data centre reporting?
The manual workflow for a large data centre can take days of post-processing per inspection. SnapCor generates the report on site because findings are captured directly into structured templates as the team works. Teams using the underlying TICOR engine consistently report saving a large share of their total inspection and reporting time.
Does SnapCor support NFPA 70B documentation for data centres?
Yes. SnapCor records load conditions and Delta T for every finding, applies consistent severity grading, and produces structured reports suited to NFPA 70B-aligned maintenance programmes, insurer reviews, and internal risk committees.
Does SnapCor work with the cameras our team already uses?
Yes. SnapCor is camera-agnostic and works with any thermal imaging camera that exports standard image formats, so your team keeps its existing cameras. Download it on the Google Play Store to start.
Turn Your Data Centre Team Into One Reporting Operation
For a data centre thermography team, speed and consistency are the same problem. The faster you can produce a report, the more consistent it has to be, because there is no time for a lengthy manual reconciliation at the end. SnapCor solves both at once: every engineer runs the same workflow, the same grading, and the same libraries, and the report is generated on site.
Built on the proven TICOR engine and the data centre inspection experience of Ti Thermal Imaging Ltd across the UK and Middle East, SnapCor is how modern thermography teams deliver instant, insurer-ready data centre reports.
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SnapCor is a thermographic reporting platform built on the proven TICOR engine by Ti Thermal Imaging Ltd. Reports are aligned to ISO 18436-7 and informed by BS7671 reference temperatures and NFPA 70B guidance. Always combine software outputs with qualified thermographer judgement and site-specific safe systems of work.