Video IP engines support analogue cameras: News from Pleora Technologies

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Pleora Technologies today announced the addition of a significant new capability to its iPort family of analogue video IP engines: support for progressive scan analogue cameras. Pleora's newest iPort capability allows this popular class of industrial analogue cameras to - for the first time - be integrated with low-cost, flexible, and highly scaleable GigE links or LANs (local-area networks). 'We are responding to customer demand to interface our iPort connectivity solution to all industrial camera types', said Rudi Rincker, Vice-President of Sales, Pleora Technologies.

'With the new iPort interface, progressive scan analogue camera users can now leverage the economical GigE platform to build high-performance, real-time vision applications over any distance'.

Progressive scan analogue cameras are typically used in vision applications like traffic monitoring and parts inspection, where image capture is triggered asynchronously by fast-moving objects.

The applications gain the precise responses to dynamic triggers and superior image definitions available from progressive scanning techniques, without requiring higher-cost digital cameras.

Progressive scan analogue cameras are supported by Pleora's iPort PT1000 ANL-2/12, ANL-2/6, and ANL-1/6 analogue video IP engines, in models with firmware Version 3.25 and higher.

The engines handle bandwidths of up to 30frame/s when full-frame images are scanned, and up to 130frame/s if partial-frame images are scanned.

All three iPort IP engines with progressive scan analogue camera interfaces deliver real-time triggering capabilities via GPIO (general-purpose input output) ports and advanced control software.

The software includes an encoder input, rescaler, and event delayer, and handles asynchronous triggers as well as synchronised triggering of multiple cameras, strobe lights, and other vision system elements.

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Video IP engines support analogue cameras

The iPort family of analogue video IP engines now support progressive scan analogue cameras.