I have just received a TMP006EVM and am quite impressed. The TMP006 User guides treat the subjects of local temperature and transient effects well and the ability to take different averages in the supplied software is very useful. However, one important parameter appears to be completely ignored. This is the effect of the emissivity of the object(s) in the TMP006’s field of view. The question of emissivity is not mentioned an any of TI’s documents
I have looked through the forum posts and seen the emissivity mentioned only once: in a post by Chip Lukes on calibration of the TMP006. It would be very helpful if the TI engineers responsible for this sensor to modify the GUI software to allow emissivity to be input as a parameter. Also, for those writing their own software (the I2C interface invites this) some guidance on how to correct for different emissivities would be useful.