By incorporating the latest technology from smartphones, it is now possible for smart cameras to offer image processing capabilities that were previously only available on PC-based systems. This new generation of smart cameras offers greater flexibility to the machine builder or systems integrator who want to use vision as an integral part of a process or machine. Smart cameras have been important to the industrial vision industry for many years. All-in one units that combine image capture and processing in a single housing, often with an integrated illumination source, smart cameras process the image within the camera itself and output the results from the analysis over industry standard connections. Smart cameras can be used in all of the traditional industrial vision applications such as high volume component inspection, robot guidance, 1D and 2D (DataMatrix) code reading and verification, optical character recognition etc.
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