Different interfaces are on the market that replace the analogue camera and frame grabber.At the high end of the market special frame grabbers are still required, at the low end cost effective USB 2 and Firewire solutions are gaining acceptance.
Why do we have USB as interface for our industrial camera?
The USB technology offers some advantages in comparison to FireWire:
> The USB interface is available on all current laptops, PCs and many embedded Industrial systems. > The USB interface guarantees a secured transfer. > The bandwidth allocation is dynamical. (Contrary to DCAM [1894 based Digital Camera Specification], which works isochronous)
What advantages are offered by the industrial USB 2.0 camera mvBlueFOX from MATRIX VISION?
Beside the general advantages of the USB interface and the easy handling the mvBlueFOX features additional advantages:
> With HRTC (Hardware RealTime Controller) it is possible to control the digital I/O flexibly. > Flexible trigger possibilities are available. > Multiple cameras are supported on a PC with a unique ID > The camera supports a dynamic camera control (changes of parameters “on the fly“). > Each image can be acquired with its own appropriate parameters. > An industrial connector is available. > The cameras are bus powered. > The 1/4" 640x480 sensors are adjusted. For this reason a position accuracy is reached of less than one percent (in future this is also available for the other sensors). > The cameras are available as OEM modules. > User data can be saved on the camera. > The drivers are powerful and provide many image processing functionality. > A uniform driver architecture for all MATRIX VISION products (frame grabbers, cameras) and future products is available. >The drivers are available for Linux (also for embedded systems like ARM, PPC etc.).
