HawkEye 1610 Smart Camera
Vision Smart Camera for Inspection and Process Control Applications

Product Summary

The HawkEye 1610, one of Microscan’s award-winning HawkEye family of networked smart cameras, combines a compact smart camera form-factor with the broad applicability, flexibility, and proven vision toolkit of Visionscape®, Microscan’s line of highperformance vision boards. Designed for use in a broad range of vision applications, the HawkEye 1610 provides a cost effective, easily deployed solution for manufacturers to monitor quality, control processes, or identify and trace parts on their production lines.
HawkEye 1610 smart cameras are configured as flexible, generalpurpose smart cameras with C- or CS-mount optics and separate lighting. Like all other HawkEye smart cameras, the 1610 comes standard with built-in digital I/O, serial communications, and Ethernet networking. All vision processing is done on-board using a highperformance, embedded CPU.A real-time, multitasking operating system ensures deterministic performance and facilitates integration in high-speed manufacturing lines.
The HawkEye 1610 offers an extensive array of built-in vision processing tools, including Data Matrix and bar code reading, optical character recognition (OCR), image processing, image analysis and feature extraction, flaw detection, object location, calibrated dimensional measurements, and various custom processing options. Developed and perfected on prior generations of Microscan’s machine vision systems, these tools have already been successfully applied in thousands of production installations worldwide.

Setup of a new vision application to run on the camera is done on a host PC on the same network using the same powerful graphical application development and deployment environment as the rest of the Visionscape line. Microscan’s patented Visionscape step program architecture allows running the same vision application program on any HawkEye 1610 vision smart camera or any Visionscape vision board, leveraging the end-user’s investment in application development and training.

Scaleability and compatibility with the rest of the Visionscape family set the HawkEye 1610 apart from other smart cameras in the market today. The same point-andclick environment can be used to configure applications deployed on systems that range from smart cameras and other standalone vision systems to frame grabbers, vision accelerators, or high-end vision engine boards.

Features and Benefits

- Compact, all-in-one smart camera configuration for ease of integration
- Built-in digital I/O, serial communications and Ethernet networking for open connectivity to other equipment
- Flexibility in lighting and optics selection for broad applicability
- Comprehensive, fully-featured vision processing toolkit
- Graphical environment for fast application development and deployment
- No conventional programming required for setup of complex vision applications
- Scaleability and full compatibility with Visionscape board line allows leveraging user training and application development investment

Applications

- Part presence/absence
- Assembly verification
- Inspection
- Gauging
- Part location/orientation detection
- Alignment/guidance
- Automatic ID (Data Matrix, bar code, OCR)

Product Specifications