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Get insights into how embedded cameras are revolutionizing various applications across the industrial, retail, and medical markets.

Camera ApplicationsDrones

How Camera Selection Impacts the Inspection & Monitoring Accuracy of Industrial Drones

Ram Prasad
by Ram Prasad
Industrial drones now handle inspection, monitoring, and audit tasks across plants, refineries, energy assets, yards, mining sites, construction zones, and utility corridors. Their value depends on the quality of the visual evidence they return, which means the camera must see enough detail for a human reviewer or an AI model......
Autonomous Mobile RobotsCamera Applications

Camera Reliability in ASRS: Why a Single Point of Failure Can Slow Down the Entire System

Suresh Madhu
by Suresh Madhu
In ASRS, any camera failure rarely appears as an obviously visible hardware issue. Instead, it shows up inside the automation flow, where the control system needs visual confidence before clearing the next movement, handoff, placement, or recovery step. The camera may be a small part of the machine, but the......
Camera ApplicationsSmart Surveillance

Vision Systems in Surveillance Drones: Why High Resolution and Global Shutter Matter

Ram Prasad
by Ram Prasad
A surveillance drone can reach the right place at the right time, yet the final image still has to carry enough detail for people and software to understand what happened. While surveillance drones have changed how teams inspect large sites, monitor public spaces, and more, their ability to help make......
Camera ApplicationsSmart Traffic

Why Camera Design Matters in Open Road Tolling (ORT) and Multi-Lane Free Flow (MLFF)

Dilip Kumar
by Dilip Kumar
Open Road Tolling and Multi-Lane Free Flow systems must record each vehicle without interrupting traffic. The camera has a brief capture window to produce a plate image that OCR can read, and the tolling system can connect to the correct transaction. See how camera design supports multi-lane capture at highway...
Camera ApplicationsSmart Traffic

ALPR Systems Are Being Hacked – Here’s What the Industry Isn’t Talking About

Dilip Kumar
by Dilip Kumar
Ever heard how fact is stranger than fiction? It’s scarier too! A security researcher recently used publicly available network scanning tools to find over 170 live ALPR cameras in major US cities (including Nashville and Chicago). The person used open remote access ports and factory-default passwords that had never been......
Autonomous Mobile RobotsCamera Applications

How to Select the Right Barcode Scanning Camera for Warehouses: A Practical Guide

Suresh Madhu
by Suresh Madhu
Suresh MadhuSuresh Madhu is the product marketing manager with 16+ years of experience in embedded product design, technical architecture, SOM product design, camera solutions, and product development. He has played an integral part in helping many customers build their products by integrating the right vision technology into them....
Camera ApplicationsCamera InterfaceMobilityTechnology Deep Dive

How GMSL Health Monitoring and Error Recovery in e-con Systems’ STURDeCAM Series Enhances Autonomous Mobility

Prabu Kumar
by Prabu Kumar
GMSL technology is a high-speed and power-efficient video link commonly used in advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS), smart traffic, and robotic applications. It operates by employing serializers to convert data into a serial stream on the transmitter side and deserializers to convert it back into a parallel word for processing......
Camera ApplicationsSmart Surveillance

Why Air-Gapped Systems are Critical for Secure Surveillance in Infrastructure Applications

Ram Prasad
by Ram Prasad
When a data center, water treatment plant, power grid, or oil refinery is the target, security failure is measured in consequences. Unauthorized intrusion into the surveillance network can threaten safety systems. Air-gapped surveillance involves using physically and electronically separate camera systems and their networks from external connections, helping eliminate remote......
Camera ApplicationsSmart Traffic

Understanding PPF, PPM, and Pixel Density in ALPR Deployments

Dilip Kumar
by Dilip Kumar
ALPR accuracy depends on how many pixels reach the license plate, rather than camera resolution alone. PPF and PPM reveal the usable pixel density at the target distance and determine lens choice, field of view, mounting, capture range, shutter type, lighting, and lane coverage. In this blog, you'll learn how...