MAY 1--Soliton (Bangalore, India, with a subsidiary in the USA; www.solitontech.com) was one of the 38 invited exhibitors at the eighth annual Texas Instruments Developer Conference in Bangalore last December. The company demonstrated three camera models: M210_CCL30--3-Mpixel, 12-frame/s, CMOS, color area-scan camera with a Camera Link interface; V210_MFW2K—2048-pixel, 16,000 lines/s, CMOS, monochrome linescan camera with a FireWire interface; and V220_MCL26—2660-pixel, 1K lines/s, high-sensitivity CCD, monochrome linescan camera with a Camera Link interface. Soliton has completed testing of these cameras at approved labs for the CE certification for the 3-Mpixel area-scan camera.
Texas Instruments invited Soliton to address the 8th Texas Instruments Developer Conference in Bangalore on Machine Vision as a part of the "Emerging" symposium. Ganesh Devaraj, CEO of Soliton, made a presentation titled "Moore's Law and its Impact on Machine Vision."
The company has recently launched machine-vision cameras for industrial use. According to Devaraj, the company has hired a market-research firm to prepare a sales and marketing strategy and to map market needs. The company plans to come out with a smart vision system by July.
Soliton started developing imaging and image processing products in 2003. It hopes to sell about 3000 cameras this year. The company, which has its software division in Coimbatore, plans to shift the product-manufacturing division to Coimbatore in the near future with in-house facilities. "Eventually, we plan to centralize our operations in Coimbatore," said Devaraj.
