Recent Posts - e-con Systems

A Developer’s Guide to USB Camera Streaming on Linux Using Open-Source Command-Line Tools

Prabu KumarJuly 13, 20260

Streaming from a camera on Linux is a common requirement, especially for developers building embedded vision applications. In many cases, proprietary software solutions add licensing costs and limit flexibility, making it difficult to customize workflows for specific applications. To overcome these challenges, we will demonstrate how to leverage popular open-source...

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

Dilip KumarJuly 15, 20260

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

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

Dilip KumarJuly 1, 20260

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...

How the Lack of Black Level Correction Can Affect Image Quality

Prabu KumarJuly 15, 20260

The first blog in this series covered what Black Level Correction (BLC) is, the physics behind dark current and the black level offset, how that offset is measured, why sensors add a deliberate pedestal before the ADC, and how BLC interacts with each stage of the ISP pipeline from lens...

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

Suresh MadhuJuly 10, 20260

Black Level Correction in Image Sensors: What It Is and Why It Matters

Prabu KumarJuly 15, 20260

Black Level Correction (BLC) is a vital stage in the Image Signal Processing (ISP) pipeline. It is one of the components of the camera tuning process, and is usually performed after Dead Pixel Correction. BLC’s primary purpose is to remove sensor-generated offsets and noise present even without incoming light. In...

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

Prabu KumarJune 22, 20260

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...

How 10GigE Industrial Cameras Enable Scalable High-Speed Automation

Prabu KumarJune 19, 20260

It’s evident that industrial imaging, these days, depends more and more on automation workflows, which introduces a lot of pressure on imaging. Cameras are expected to send richer image data and keep up with high-throughput machinery. They should also connect to host systems already running robotics, inspection, and control workloads....

How to Implement External Trigger-Based Camera Synchronization on NVIDIA Jetson Orin NX and Orin Nano

Prabu KumarJune 19, 20260

Image synchronization is essential in embedded vision applications that require precise, simultaneous capture across multiple cameras. These cameras use external triggering to capture images at the same moment when a specific event occurs, such as an object reaching a target position on a conveyor belt. The synchronized image improves inspection...

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

Ram PrasadJune 9, 20260

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...