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The Allied Vision Alvium series is a camera range designed for machine vision and embedded vision applications, fulfilling the high standards of industrial and scientific image processing.

The models cover a wide spectral range, including UV, visible light, NIR and SWIR. With excellent image quality through FPNC, DPC, Active Sensor Alignment and industry-standard hardware, the Alvium cameras provide a future-proof and reliable solution for vision applications.

Four camera families are available with different interfaces: the C-models with MIPI CSI-2, the U-models with USB3 Vision and the G1 and G5 series with Gigabit Ethernet interface featuring established GigE Vision standard. All families are powered by Allied Vision’s ALVIUM technology including advanced image processing features. It provides freedom and flexibilitywhile setting new standards in quality and performance with its proprietary processor, tiny size, low power consumption and low-cost design.

Alvium short-wave infrared (SWIR) models with Sony IMX990 and Sony IMX991 SenSWIR sensor

The compact Alvium models are available with Sony's innovative SenSWIR sensors. The TEC-less SenSWIR sensors support a wide spectral range allowing imaging in both the visible and SWIR spectrums, and show similar imaging performance to the Goldeye camera models with TEC.

Alvium SWIR cameras are the smallest SWIR core modules on the market and offer an unrivalled price-performance ratio (SWaP+C) due to their small size, low weight and power consumption. This makes them ideally suitable to build compact OEM systems in embedded and machine vision applications.

Related products

Alvium SWIR cameras are suitable for a large number of applications and fit perfectly for VIS-SWIR lenses. Please have a look at the following optic products:

• Kowa LM-HC-VIS-SWIR

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• SWIR Illumination

• Illumination in machine vision

Specifications

• Sensor: Wide choice of leading Sony CMOS sensors, including colour, monochrome and SWIR models.
• Features: powered by ALVIUM technology, designed for embedded vision with ARM board compatibility
• Lens mount: C-, S-, and CS-mount option
• Miscellaneous: single PCB design, bare board and front housing options

Markets and Applications

• Robotics applications require ultra-compact and low-weight cameras with good image quality, which can be ideally found in entry-level models.

• Reverse Vending Machines and other compact systems with limited space profit from ROI (Region of Interest) readout, which ensures that only specific regions of the image are inspected, like a barcode or the shape of a bottle.

• Slide scanners, e.g. in pathology, demand an ultra-compact size and outstanding image quality, which are supported by the various features ALVIUM technology provides in the entry-level models, like defect pixel correction or adaptive noise reduction.

• Traffic applications like Automated License Plate Recognition (ALPR) profit from outstanding image quality and multiple regions of interest of the Alvium advanced series.

• Resolutions up to 24 megapixels in the advanced series give outstanding image quality for aerial mapping, besides the sequencing feature that enables shooting images with different conditions.

• Microscopy needs good images with extreme low noise, which can be provided by means of integrated denoising algorithms as well as the passive cooling design offered by the Alvium series closed housing version.