Cameras, Accessories and Support for Industrial Image Processing: Your Imagination Is Our Challenge
Committed to industrial image processing since its foundation in 1997, IDS Imaging Development Systems GmbH has been widely known for its development of frame grabbers. Today IDS offers a comprehensive range of USB and GigE based industrial cameras, accessories and software tools “made in Germany”. The uEye camera series currently comprises over 1.200 model variants. They cater not only to the classical image processing markets, such as industrial automation and quality assurance, but also to the upcoming “new markets” of image processing, such as security technology and the non-industrial segment.

The uEye Industrial Camera Series
All uEye cameras boast an extremely compact design. The industrial cameras are available with high-quality CCD or CMOS sensors, with monochrome or color technology. The resolution ranges from 640 x 480 pixels to up to ten megapixels. The uEye RE and uEye LE versions are optimized for their intended uses. RE if tough is not tough enough, LE – as little as possible, as much as necessary. The GigE uEye series cameras extend the broad range of USB cameras by fast models for demanding machine vision tasks. The all new GigE uEye CP features Power-over-Ethernet and modern CMOS sensors in the smallest housing possible, making it the ideal replacement for analog cameras. The USB uEye ME is a versatile and robust all-round camera with angled housing that provides for easy integration into machines with little space.
Compact, small, powerful - with their design, mainstream bus technologies and high resolution sensors, the uEye industrial cameras perfectly meet the requirements of modern image processing.

Custom-Made Cameras for Special Requirements
Even though the uEye series features over 1.200 different models, not all the specific demands of OEM customers can be met at a satisfactory level by using the standard models. To accommodate these requirements, IDS also develops customized and project-related solutions.

Optimum Software Support – the Second Half of the Camera
The powerful uEye software development kit (SDK) forms the basis. Demo programs for an easy camera configuration allow finding the best settings without previously programming a single line of code. The source code of the demo programs offers developers a useful programming basis. Direct interfaces are additionally provided for many current image processing libraries, such as Common Vision Blox, Halcon or LabView and the new universal camera interface standard GenICam will achieve shortest integration times for image processing.

Professional Service
Competent services complement and complete the product portfolio. They include, for example, application consulting, support during system integration and the design- in phase, feasibility studies, product leasing, and software training. IDS has more than 90 employees in the development, production, sales, marketing and support departments at its head office in Obersulm, Germany, its subsidiary IDS Inc. in Woburn, USA and the representative offices in Tokyo, Japan and Paris, France. The company is represented in almost all European countries as well as the Americas and Asia Pacific through exclusive distributors.