Unique combination of excellent performance, small size, and low price makes the new ace cameras very appealing for the industrial and ITS markets

Basler started a new era of innovation at the VISION Stuttgart show and introduced a set of small, ultra-fast, high resolution ace cameras. The cameras use the all-new 2 and 4 megapixel resolution CMOS sensors from CMOSIS, which reach up to 340 and 180 frames per second respectively. With a global shutter and Camera Link interface, this new set of ace camera models expands the frontiers for a wide range of throughput orientated applications.

Basler took the challenge and implemented the CMOSIS sensors into the ace with its very small housing and a footprint of only 29 mm x 29 mm. Trigger or flash support via separate I/O Ports and optional Power over Camera Link (PoCL) functionality reduce the hardware installation effort to a minimum. In addition, all camera properties can be flexibly adapted with software commands via GenICam support. The performance, the small size, and the new flexibility of the ace Camera Link models make the replacement of analog and older digital cameras a secure investment.

Just like the existing ace cameras, the new set of ace Camera Link models has a strictly cost driven design that has never been matched by cameras with such a tremendous pixel throughput. Basler hands these cost advantages over to our customers and defines a new entry level price. “We see that the combination of performance, small size, and price is unique in today’s machine vision camera market,” explains Werner Borchert, Senior Product Manager at Basler. “With the ace Camera Link models, we are addressing “high end” markets such as semiconductor or electronics manufacturing and Intelligent Traffic Systems (ITS), but we have positioned our ace series at the typical cost of a mainstream camera.”