GigE Vision

GigE Vision is an industrial image processing standard first published in 2006. To be compliant to Dual-GigE and 10 GigE interfaces, the standard was upgraded in 2012. GigE Vision defines

• a transport layer, which controls the detection of a device ("Device Detection"),

• the configuration ("Register Access"),

• the data streaming ("Streaming Data"), and

• the handling of events ("Event Handling")

and establishes the interface to GenICam. GenICam again abstracts the access to the camera features for the user. The features are standardized (name and behavior) by the ”Standard Feature Naming Convention“ (SFNC). Additionally, it is possible to create specific features in addition to the SFNC to differentiate from other vendors ("Quality of Implementation").

About Gigabit Ethernet

Gigabit Ethernet was introduced in 1999. In the meantime, it is the network standard and available everywhere. For this reason exisiting network infrastructur can be used for image processing applications. The Gigabit Ethernet interface supports a net bandwidth of 1000 MBit/s, however, with Link Aggregation you can double the bandwidth. With a max. cable length of 100 m the interface is suitable for applications with

• long distances and

• existing network infrastructure,

as well as for applications, where you need a high

• flexibility and

• scalability.

The cost-effective Ethernet accessories are a further advantage.