Baumer AX smart industrial cameras have arrived!

Industrial competition in three dimensions, prompting customers to improve the quality of the product requirements, product quality inspection, equipment operation and maintenance, the ubiquitous digitalisation of human-machine cooperation and collaboration closer, in order to be able to achieve the results of controllable, traceable and stable, the introduction of AI technology to industrial applications, has become a generally favourable trend in the industry.

What does industrial vision AI look like in the end? Baumer AX intelligent camera has the answer.

Baumer AX intelligent camera combines the more popular AI core technology, combines hardware and software advantages in one, and has strong performance.

Hardware

The hardware of Baumer AX smart camera adopts the integrated solution of GPU and ASIC, equipped with mainstream NVIDIA Jetson platform, and the customised ASIC chip assists the high-performance GPU for deep learning acceleration. Its core (DLA) is designed for AI and can achieve frame rates of up to 300 fps in AI-based object classification applications, with high frame rates and classification rates helping to ensure safer collaboration between fast-running robots and operators.

The camera's exterior also incorporates a rugged, industrial-grade, thermally-optimised design, multiple interfaces and the latest Sony CMOS sensor technology to achieve high image quality for today's and tomorrow's needs.

Software

The software supports development kits (SDKs) such as TensorFlow and Caffe, as well as support for AI models trained specifically for certain application scenarios, such as performing tasks such as bulk material monitoring or object location recognition in image processing applications.

With Linux, the camera also offers the freedom to choose the programming language according to the application, the flexibility to use image processing libraries or application programming interfaces (APIs) from third-party vendors, and to use custom algorithms in a protected manner.

Programming in Python or openCV languages is supported, as well as standard industrial controllers and easy and flexible application programming.

Software-defined cameras in line with Industry 4.0 trend towards flexible production

The concept of ‘Industry 4.0’ is the complete digitalisation of everything from product design to manufacturing and distribution, significantly increasing efficiency and reducing costs.

This is where the flexibility of Baumer's AX smart cameras for measurement and quality control comes into its own. The camera obtains the required information about the corresponding test object from the cloud, then customises the camera parameters to form a completely new device, which can then transmit the results to a PLC. communication and data exchange compared to traditional PC-based industrial cameras.

Baumer's AX Smart Camera is the perfect combination of IT and automation.

With freely programmable image processing capabilities such as the AX Smart Camera, many of the tasks that are currently handled by conventional PC-based industrial camera systems will be changed in the future.

Equipped with powerful NVIDIA Jetson modules and an open system that complies with a wide range of existing standards, the AX camera facilitates programmers to be able to easily call existing libraries, tools, and AI models. In addition to being capable of AI tasks, the AX Smart Camera can be used in regular image processing applications in order to further train and improve existing AI neural networks.

As automation technology continues to become more IT-enabled, the trend towards software-based cameras will also become more pronounced, with the aim of actually improving productivity for the better.

Baumer AX smart cameras are the ideal industrial AI image processing platform you can trust.