How are GigE Vision cameras different from other Gigabit Ethernet cameras?
GigE Vision cameras, such as Prosilica's GE-Series and GC-Series, are machine-vision cameras that supply uncompressed image data in real time, usually at very high data rates, that is suitable for image analysis.
Most other types of Ethernet camera are not suited to machine vision because they supply only compressed image data, and that only at very limited data rates. Some so-called 'smart cameras' use Ethernet to transmit non-image data from the camera to a network, but these are generally application specific image sensors that are not suited to generalized imaging.
GigE Vision cameras such as Prosilica's GigE Vision cameras are specially designed to handle the dataflow in dedicated hardware providing uncompressed, very fast, very reliable data throughput in a form that is suitable for computer analysis.
Prosilica currently offers wide selection of CCD and CMOS machine vision cameras that conform to the GigE Vision standard providing an ease of use and integration that has not previously been available.