Offering all of the functions and features of their predecessors the CVA10GE (monochrome) and CVA70GE (colour) now also offer cable transmission lengths up to 100m using standard Gigabit ethernet
JAI says its 1/2inch progressive scan CCD cameras CVA10/CVA70 have taken an important step into the future.
For the first time the new CV-A10/A70 series is offered with the easy-to-use and flexible GigE vision interface.
The new CVA10GE and CVA70GE GigE vision cameras can be widely used in even the most demanding machine vision applications across a diverse range of industries, it says.
They are ideal for use in high speed applications where the high sensitivity from their 1/2inch CCD sensors and full resolution 60 frames per second (double speed) can be utilised.
These include print inspection, food sorting and inspection, flat panel quality verification and many others.
They are also ideal for applications where light levels or colour sensitivity can be a problem.
These include medical diagnostics such as skin screening and opthalmological instrumentation.
Their 8.3micron CCD pixels offer a large footprint for light collection and a high fill factor for maximum efficiency.
This enables these GigE vision cameras to produce high quality images with greater than 55dB signal to noise ratio and up to 10bit output.
The combination of high sensitivity, special readout modes and auto-iris output offered by these Jai GigE cameras also makes them extremely attractive for intelligent traffic applications such as highway infringement, speed cameras and others.
GigE Vision has been widely adopted in the past 12 months and more so since November 2006 when the standard was ratified by the Automated Imaging Association.
The benefits of high speed, long cable distances, an industry standard interface Gigabit ethernet and no frame grabber has proven to be an irresistible.
Jai with their monochrome CVA10GE and colour CVA70GE cameras have taken a step further.
Recognising that long cables meant remoteness from the computer and a lack of frame grabber meant less available functionality, Jai has designed many features that previously have been offered by the grabber into its GigE Vision cameras.
The cameras have built-in general purpose I/O that can be controlled by software via the GigE interface and can be used to switch devices on/off near the camera, communicate with PLCs etc.
They also have built in counters and timers to generate pulse trains and so regulate their frame rate internally.
This can also be used to synchronise multiple cameras to each other.
These and many other built-in features make the CVA10GE and CVA70GE cameras the most flexible cameras on the market, according to Adept Electronic Solutions.
Both camera versions comply with GenIcam standard for configuration and control through the embedded XML file.
The benefit lies in the easy interfacing with third party software libraries like Common Vision Blox (Stemmar Imaging), Labview (National Instruments), MIL (Matrox), StreamPix, Streams5 and others.
