Reduce Design and System Costs for Infrared 360 Imaging

Pleora’s NTx-Mini Embedded Video Interface with RapidPIX compression speeds design time and reduces system costs for infrared 360° cameras deployed for perimeter security in locations such as airports, critical infrastructure, borders, and more.

In airports, for example, automated vision systems require real-time detection, classification & tracking to identify unlawful and accidental intrusions, protect critical areas, and manage traffic including workers, aircraft, and vehicles.

In these systems, Pleora’s NTx-Mini Embedded Video Interface transmits real-time, low-latency video from the camera over extended-reach Ethernet cabling to a central office. Power, control signals, and data are transmitted over the single, thinner, lighter and more flexible cabling. With GigE Vision, multiple cameras can be networked to a single host PC for processing and display and new cameras are easily added to the network. Video can also be multicast to processing, displays, and storage systems.

To reduce infrastructure and system costs, Pleora’s patented RapidPIX lossless compression algorithm transmits up to 2 Gbps of video over standard 1 Gbps Ethernet infrastructure. While boosting bandwidth performance without requiring a costly infrastructure upgrade, the lossless compression solution also minimizes the amount of data transmitted over the network to reduce power consumption.

As an end-to-end solution, Pleora’s eBUS SDK streamlines high-speed reception of images for hand-off to the end application for further analysis. The eBUS Universal Pro driver reduces CPU usage when receiving images or data over multiple GigE Vision links, leaving more processing power for analysis and inspection while helping meet latency and throughput requirements for real-time surveillance applications.