GigE Vision technology has existed in the field of Machine Vision since 2006, and it can be said with certainty that it has served over the years for significant upgrades in vision systems.
Recently, the GigE Vision interface has been upgraded to faster rates of 5,10, and even 25 GigE.
Why is this upgrade so important?
It’s important to understand the background. In 2006, 12 companies came together and created the GigE interface to provide a reliable interface for the speed and resolution that were common at the time. This reliable interface was used for long distances of tens of meters using a simple network cable. The interface certainly gained momentum, and many vision systems were based on it. Systems that exist today and operate in countless factories and machines.
With the addition of the Power over Ethernet option, the interface became even more desirable because it allowed, with a single cable, to transmit data, control the camera, and supply it with the required voltage.
The interface has a clear and known standard that today more than fifty companies manufacturing cameras adhere to. This makes this interface convenient and common.
At the same time, over the years, various sensors have developed. Resolutions have increased significantly, as has the speed, which has greatly increased the bandwidth required from the cameras.
Indeed, at the same time, other fast interfaces such as USB3, Coexpress have also developed, but the GigE interface was already the most common, and the simple structure of network communication, the lack of need for Frame Grabber cards, and the ability to work at almost unlimited distances did their part.
In fact, since 2011, what is called version 2.0 of GigE Vision supports speeds of 5,10,25 GigE as well as additional functions, the most important of which is PTP synchronization between cameras (IEEE1588).
AsioVision markets the GenieNano camera series from Teledyne Dalsa. It’s worth focusing on these cameras because although their interface is 5GigE, these cameras, through the TurboDrive feature, reach speeds very close to 10GigE.
Teledyne Dalsa cameras have two unique features:
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T2IR – Trigger to Image Reliability – What is it exactly? Worth a short watch:
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Turbo-Drive – In fact, Turbo Drive allows using the existing cable infrastructure built in systems for the 1GigE format for high-speed cameras up to an order of magnitude.
The above two features are unique to Teledyne Dalsa’s GigE Vision cameras.
If a customer has decided that GigE Vision communication is the right type of interface for their application, one can find in the GenieNano family a huge variety of cameras with sensors from leading companies such as SONY, OnSEMI. At AsioVision, we match the customer with the appropriate camera for their application, the matching optical system, and provide full support in integration.
