Giganetix Plus Camera Offers Sony"s CMOS Global Shutter Sensor

Framos announced a new industrial imaging solution with Smartek Vision and Sony’s CMOS Global Shutter Sensor. The Giganetix Plus camera series offers the Sony IMX174 image sensor.

Smartek Vision’s industrial GigE camera GCP1931 with Sony’s first image sensor based on the CMOS technology with global shutter are capable of moving object inspection, low-light and outdoor applications.

With 2.3MP resolution at a high frame rate of 50fps, high sensitivity due to the Sony Exmor technology and large pixels of 5.86µm Smartek Vision uses the full bandwidth of Gigabit Ethernet based on the GigE Vision standard as proven data interface. The sensor and the camera design allows for a significantly more economic approach compared to the CCD sensor technology at the same or even better image characteristics.

At the core of this imaging solution is Sony’s newly developed analog memory that allows for the unification of the best of the CCD and the CMOS technology. A clean conversion of stored light collected at the photodiode and shielded from noise sources results in high sensitivity. No fixed pattern noise and an extremely low read noise of 7e- in combination with a high dynamic range from 70db and a peak quantum efficiency over 75 enable distortion free images without any smearing or rolling shutter artefacts. All sensitivity factors leads to a lower power consumption due to the better lightening conditions.

Smartek Vision’s GCP1931 is available from May as monochrome and color version and is thus one of the very first cameras which offers the IMX174 sensor to the imaging market. It provides a rich features set comprising Power over Ethernet, robust and compact housing, a fully Genicam and GigE Vision compliant hardware and driver interface as well as a comprehensive SDK. 

Giganetix Plus Camera Offers Sony"s CMOS Global Shutter Sensor