Vision Connector App¶

Vision Connector allows connectivity and image acquisition from single or multiple industrial cameras on Siemens Industrial Edge.

Do you want to gain a competitive advantage for your vision use cases? Does your use case require connecting to one or multiple cameras on the shop floor?

Vision Connector gives you the advantage of connecting to industrial Ethernet cameras and transferring the acquired data via high-speed interface to Siemens Industrial Edge applications. The acquired image data can be ingested by AI Inference Server or other Siemens Industrial Edge applications.

The integrated UI and convenience of setting up the camera connectivity can open up many opportunities for your vision use cases.

Key features and benefits¶

• Key Features

  • Connect to one or more Industrial Ethernet cameras on Siemens Industrial Edge
  • Offers high-speed ZMQ interface for data ingestion to Industrial Edge applications
  • Easily add, remove, enable and disable cameras on the UI
  • Preview image streams on the UI
  • Camera auto discovery to locate new cameras in the network
  • Conveniently adjust camera acquisition parameters such as: Frequency, Resolution, Pixel Format, Exposure time, Height, Width
  • Support PTP acquisition from Cameras
  • Export/Import configuration file with cameras and parameters
  • Integrated log viewer on UI for troubleshooting

• Benefits

  • Customers can connect industrial cameras to Industrial Edge
  • Customers do not require to build their own custom connector
  • Provides standard interface and payload definition for IE apps
  • Provides integration with AI Inference Server

Available APIs¶