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0 pointsvidanay3y ago0 comments

As a developer and maintainer of a PC based vision solution, I don't like smart cameras. :)

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snerbles3y ago· 3 in thread

As an integrator of vision solutions, smart cameras firmly occupy the space of "Nobody Ever Got Fired For Buying IBM"

Though with recent developments in machine learning, the case for PC-based solutions is a lot easier now than before. Behind all the fluff and shiny marketing, the incumbents are very stagnant.

vidanayOP3y ago

15 years ago, I used to claim that there were more smart cameras sitting in engineers desk drawers than there were running in production. I think that was true until about 7-8 years ago.

snerbles3y ago

Definitely not the case at my old job - we deployed a bit over 200 Cognex In-Sight cameras over my five-year stint there, almost all for bespoke inspection applications for customers.

They gave me plenty of swag, but if I wanted to play with one of their cameras I'd have to go out on the production floor.

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zwieback3y ago

I would agree, many of those cameras are mouldering in our reclaim area now. But the newer generations are powerful enough that we can turn normal manufacturing engineers loos on simpler vision tasks and leave the challenging applications to more traditional systems.

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