Sherlock
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Sherlock is a Windows-based machine vision point-and-click software environment specifically intended to simplify development and deployment of high performance alignment, gauging, inspection, assembly verification, and machine guidance tasks.

With NO LANGUAGE PROGRAMMING REQUIRED, System Integrators and End-Users of machine vision find the rapid prototyping environment of Sherlock greatly reduces development time and helps speed up time-to-market.

Sherlock's extensive library of instructions, preprocessors, and algorithms can be combined in a variety of ways to solve simple or very demanding tasks, and the design environment is comprised of multiple configurable windows that can be moved, resized, or hidden to support user preferences.

Maximum design flexibility is provided to allow users to customize algorithms, construct scripts and develop operator interfaces. . The user graphically applies tools to regions of interest on the image, which are then connected through instructions and conditional statements to form a program or investigation. Custom formulas and control operations are easily constructed using the Sherlock script tool and connectivity with the outside is provided through discrete I/O and network commands that support standard factory protocols.

The Sherlock software environment also provides Monitor, Surveillance and SPC Reporter utilities for gaining insight into vision task program flow, internal/external events, internal variables, or other parameters.

The software includes a client design interface installed on a PC that communicates with the server or engine embedded on the camera. During development, images from the camera are fed directly to the Sherlock GUI and commands from the program are executed directly on the camera. This methodology optimizes the user design experience while providing an accurate representation of runtime performance. A secondary interface is available through a standard web browser for device setup, runtime monitoring and firmware updating.

Sherlock software comes embedded into the BOA PRO series of smart cameras.