What about UV: is this a technology for the future?
Zimmermann: Sony has recently launched a new UV sensor. They already had a UV CCD-based sensor technology for more than 20 years. We did see some applications, but it’s very specific in particular, like in the semiconductor area and also for power line inspection. Today UV is pretty niche and we see volumes mainly below 100 pieces by customer project. Therefore pricing is comparatively high. But there is definitely a reason why Sony launched a new UV sensor.
Hashagen: UV is definitely a bit difficult because you have to protect the human eye from UV light. Doing long range imaging with UV doesn’t make sense because it’s absorbed strongly by the atmosphere. So UV imaging is a kind of niche market.
Larive: I have a different view, probably because we do UV and sell UV cameras in quantities. We have solution for solar blind UV so you are not polluted by the light coming from the sun. It is definitely a market in machine vision for years, e.g. for boreline inspection, metering or defense.“ rel=“nofollow“ target=“_blank“>www.xenics.com
Sascha Zimmermann, Macnica ATD Europe
If you have sufficient light the Sony SenSWIR sensors do great. If it’s coming to low light applications they are a little bit weaker.
Jens Hashagen, Allied Vision
Participants
n Jens Hashagen, Busines Development Manager, Allied Vision
n Sascha Zimmermann, General Director Sales, Macnica ATD Europe
n Dr. Ethan Klem, CTO, SWIR Vision Systems
n David Cheskis, Senior Produnct Director, Trieye
n Marc Larive, Strategic Marketing Manager, Xenics
Host: Dr.-Ing. Peter Ebert, inVISION
Jens Hashagen, Busines Development Manager, Allied Vision
Sascha Zimmermann, General Director Sales, Macnica ATD Europe
Dr. Ethan Klemm, CTO, SWIR Vision Systems
David Cheskis, Senior Product Director, Trieye
Marc Larive, Strategic Marketing Manager, Xenics
Host: Dr.-Ing. Peter Ebert, inVISION
Marc Larive, Xenics
Because Trieye can scale the cost and the volumes, we’re able to address those kinds of markets which other technologies can’t.
David Cheskis, Trieye
QD sensors can add value when having lots of pixels is important and you have a light source.
Dr. Ethan Klemm, SWIR Vision Systems