What is Embedded Vision?

Embedded vision is an exciting new technology in the vision industry. It has the potential to open up new applications and shape the future of entire industries. It’s a revolutionary concept with far reaching implications. But what exactly is it?

Embedded vision refers to the integration of a camera and processing board. Historically, vision systems consisted of a camera and a PC. These were both large and expensive. Over time, both cameras and PCs shrunk in size and price until they could be easily embedded in other systems at an affordable price.

What are the Advantages of Embedded Vision Systems?

While embedded vision systems certainly cannot take the place of PC-based vision systems altogether, embedded systems do present many advantages for certain applications. Typically, integrators and manufacturers alike point to four main benefits of embedded vision systems:

1. Small size
2. Light weight
3. Low cost
4. Low energy consumption

Not all applications are suitable for embedded vision systems, but the ones that are experience transformative results.

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New Applications and Designs with Embedded Vision

One major way that embedded vision systems differ from PC-based systems is that they’re typically built for specific applications, while PC-based systems are usually intended for general image processing. This is important, as it often increases the complexity of initial integration. However, this complexity is offset by a custom system perfectly suited for the application and for providing return on investment (ROI).

Embedded vision systems are used in applications like self-driving cars, autonomous vehicles in agriculture, digital dermascopes that help specialists make more accurate diagnoses, among many other unique and cutting-edge applications.

Each one of these applications deploys embedded vision systems built specifically for that purpose – you wouldn't want to use a dermascope in a self-driving car, for example. Even though each application uses a unique system, embedded vision as a whole is having a transformative impact on a number of industries.

Embedded vision opens up entirely new possibilities. It has the potential to disrupt entire industries. Over the next few years, there will be a rapid proliferation of embedded vision technology.