LOGISTICS


‘We’re taking images on all six sides – including underneath… and at very high speed up to 4.5m/s’


Above: Zivid’s cameras offer less than 0.2% trueness error, enabling it to pick and place with extreme accuracy. Below: The Zivid Two camera can be mounted on a robot for pick-and-place applications


Automation is the only


way for e-commerce and logistics firms to fulfil


orders since the dramatic uptick in online shopping brought about by the Covid-19 pandemic


is greater flexibility in the types of parcels CEP providers can accommodate and better visibility across their logistics sequence. Looking to the future, Young believes


the technology for parcel identification is near-optimal. “CEP camera technology is most probably at its peak,” adds Young. “It’s all in the software now – how you capture, decipher and use the image, and how you run and improve your algorithms are where the marginal gains are coming from.”


Customer choice Outside parcel identification, there are still plenty of areas in which machine vision can provide significant gains for logistics


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operations. German industrial camera manufacturer Allied Vision is providing flexibility to customers by allowing them to choose their ideal solution from a wide variety of machine vision products. Introduced three years ago, the company’s Alvium camera series features more than 200 different cameras that all share the same unique system-on-chip ASIC. Tis shared platform and wide range of camera options, in terms of interface, sensors, spectral sensitivity, housing, lens mounts and camera series, provides all the elements required to develop a vision system according to specific needs, while also simplifying prototyping, upgrading or downgrading the system.


“We are working to really extend and make


it easier for our customers to integrate our cameras,” says Claus Haselmeier, Business Development Manager for Embedded at Allied vision. “For example, when the Alvium camera series was launched, initially there were cameras with USB3 and CSI-2 [Camera Serial Interface 2] interfaces. Since then, we have expanded the product portfolio with GigE [Gigabit Ethernet] and 5GigE cameras.” Allied Vision also offers Vimba and Vimba


X software development kits to explore camera features, program applications and connect to third-party libraries. Te company also works with partners specialising in embedded and machine vision – such


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