Intelligent industrial camera with 4K streaming and excellent low-light performance

IDS expands its product line for intelligent image processing and launches a new IDS NXT malibu camera. It enables AI-based image processing, video compression and streaming in full 4K sensor resolution at 30fps – directly in and out of the camera. The 8MP sensor IMX678 is part of the Starvis 2 series from Sony. It provides impressive image quality even in low light conditions and twilight.

The device can independently perform AI-based image analysis and supply the results as live overlays in compressed video streams via RTSP. Hidden inside is a special SoC from Ambarella, known for action cameras. An ISP with helpful automatic features such as brightness, noise, and colour correction ensures that optimum image quality is attained at all times. The new 8 MP camera complements the recently introduced camera variant with the 5 MP onsemi sensor AR0521.

To coincide with the market launch of the new model, IDS has also published a new software release. Users can now also display live images from these camera models via an MJPEG-compressed HTTP stream. This enables visualisation in any web browser without additional software or plug-ins. In addition, the AI vision studio IDS lighthouse can train individual neural networks for the Ambarella SoC of the camera family. This simplifies the use of the camera for AI-based image analyses with classification, object recognition and anomaly detection methods.