Geva 1000: NEW, high-performance vision controller offers excellent cost-saving

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DALSA announces new GigE Vision Appliance

Geva 1000: Providing expandable GigE camera inspection for multiple camera installations
Geva1000 is the latest in Dalsa's award winning Vision Appliance series. Vision Appliances are small footprint embedded vision controllers supplied with software installed and with all the features and specifications required to tackle from the simplest to the most complex inspection tasks cost-effectively. Compatible with the full range of DALSA Genie and Spyder3 cameras, GEVA offers a cost-effective and expandable performance platform for a wide range of industrial inspection tasks especially where multi-camera vision is necessary.

About the Geva 1000
The two high-bandwidth GigE camera ports are compatible with a wide range of mono or colour, area and line scan GigE cameras, which can be mixed to suit your application needs.

Camera expansion is easily accommodated using commercially available off-the-shelf Gigabit Ethernet switches and hubs which enable large configurations to be realised with much lower system costs.

Central to GEVA is a powerful multi-core processor (about 35% to 50% faster than DALSA's VA61) equipped with high-speed memory resources that can tackle the most demanding applications. Two dedicated GigE camera ports are provided, each with enough bandwidth to support simultaneous inspection for eight 640 x 480 mono cameras.

What other connectivity does the GEVA 1000 provide?
Aside from camera interfacing, GEVA provides a number of external interfaces for system integration which includes:
** dedicated display and USB ports for set-up and run-time control
** a third GigE port and a serial port for factory communication
** dedicated trigger inputs for inspection timing
** Dedicated strobe outputs for lighting control
** opto-isolated I/O for associated equipment interfacing including reject queuing
** fully-functioning software emulators are installed on GEVA which allow users to develop or debug applications offline. Also, using the emulators means that machine up time is maximized during application development and maintenance.

What software choices do I have?
GEVA's flexibility is underpinned by two software choices: DALSA's iNspect or Sherlock application software.

The inspect software is easy to use and requires little or no prior vision experience, while the Sherlock software offers greater flexibility to tackle even the most challenging inspection tasks as well as allowing mixing of camera technologies within the same application.

Both packages offer a full complement of tools together with interfacing and control options for both users and equipment, such as for applications that require positioning, identification, verification, measurement and flow detection.

How easy is it to switch to GEVA if I already have existing application?
For performance migration, already-deployed applications built on other DALSA equipment will also run on GEVA using the same cameras.

What if my deployment needs are uncommon?
If your machine-building requirements are unique, GEVA comes complete with camera drivers for integration with third-party software.

Combining GEVA 1000's hardware flexibility with inspect/Sherlock software tools gives very powerful vision solutions
for a wide range of applications