A term brown out means it is an intentional or unintentional drop in voltage in an electrical power supply system. Brown outs are long-term (hours-long) voltage sags caused by system overload. Deviations from the regular sinusoidal wave, both on the utility side and on the customer side, result in poor power quality.
A thermopile is an electronic device that converts thermal energy into electrical energy. It is composed of several thermocouples connected usually in series or less commonly, in parallel. Thermopiles are used for contactless temperature sensing. The function of a thermopile is to transfer the heat radiation emitted from the object to a voltage output. The output is in the range of tens or hundreds of millivolts.