Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Small fish in a big pond?

The big Vision 2009 show has prompted many companies to email me reminders of their product offerings. I’m not complaining; machine vision is a highly fragmented industry and it’s good to have my memory jogged from time to time.

One such jog came from Matrix Vision. They’re a German manufacturer of USB and GigE cameras, as well as framegrabbers and a smart camera, (the Linux-based mvBlueLYNX.) Not a lot of vision hardware companies use USB, but for some people, particularly university researchers, it has advantages over FireWire. Matrix Vision list a wide range of both CCD and CMOS cameras on their site, so if you need to put together a simple lab system in a hurry, they might be worth talking to.

They’re not a huge company, but they’re trying to carve out a niche, so take a look.

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