Gigabit Ethernet cameras begin to shine
As cameras get smarter, vendors adopt Gigabit Ethernet interfaces.
In the past, digital cameras using CCD or CMOS imagers simply captured images and transferred them over standard interfaces to the PC for processing. Camera designers paid little attention to storing, processing, and displaying data and transferring resulting pass/fail information to a PLC to control reject mechanisms on industrial automation systems. With the advent of smart cameras, this concept has changed dramatically.