As cameras used for inspection must produce ever-higher-quality images and as image-processing speeds increase dramatically, data transmission rates have remained a bottleneck for vision systems.

GigE Vision has brought numerous advantages to machine-vision systems, including a 100-m cable length and higher bandwidth. Other advantages are a variety of lower-cost, readily available, standard ...

German industrial camera manufacturer Imaging Development Systems GmbH (IDS) added new pixel formats and features to its GigE (Gigabit Ethernet) Vision cameras. Delivered through firmware release 1.3, ...

An AOI application based on GigE connectivity opens up a whole new range of configuration options. For want of lower cost, more flexible alternatives, the automated optical inspection (AOI) industry ...