Smart Camera - A Second Definition

A Second Definition

"Having" a capability in Machine Vision generally means a degree of development such that these capabilities are ready for use on individual applications. In the factory automation field where terms are often defined by their predominant usage, "Smart Camera" is also commonly used to refer to a unit which includes all of the hardware (and sometimes an operating system) as a platform for the above, but which requires the addition of either machine vision software or more extensive code-type programming before it is ready to provide the described capabilities.