Microscan, a global technology
leader in barcode, machine vision, and lighting solutions, announces the latest
innovation as part of its award-winning AutoVISION machine vision suite,
CloudLink web HMI. A machine vision visualization tool for AutoVISION,
CloudLink enables users to monitor live machine vision inspections performed by
AutoVISION software and smart cameras in an interface that is accessible via
web browser on any web-enabled device (such as PCs, HMIs, tablets, and smart
phones).
Machine vision inspection jobs in
AutoVISION are uniquely portable across hardware, software, industrial systems,
and mobile platforms and devices. The CloudLink web-based HMI greatly expands
AutoVISION’s cross-platform flexibility, giving users the freedom to view
inspection operations from anywhere at any time. Based on a machine vision
inspection job created in AutoVISION Machine Vision Software, CloudLink can
display values from the inspection job that have been linked to a shared data
service over industrial protocols by AutoVISION’s one-click connectivity tool,
Microscan Link. These values include images taken by the machine vision camera
and the results of tools applied to the image by the software, such as Measure,
Count, Decode, Verify, and more. As values are received, (such as the pass/fail
results of a Count tool that counts shapes on a part), they can be displayed in
CloudLink in image, text, or graphical format depending on how the user has
tailored their CloudLink view.
The fully-customizable CloudLink
Dashboard provides users with default widgets for the easiest way to create a
tailored window of inspection results within a single view in a browser.
Widgets can be added to the Dashboard to display values in different formats,
from images to data to charts & graphs. Historical data and images are
logged by Filmstrip, Chart, and Log widgets so users can review past inspection
results, such as the reason for a failure. Alternatively, CloudLink API
(Application Programming Interface) allows the CloudLink technology to be added
to any custom software for visualizing inspection results on the user’s
preferred platform.
Since it is web-based, CloudLink
does not require any software to be installed on the device that is used to
monitor inspection operations. From PCs to tablets to smart phones and more,
users can access CloudLink via web browser to remotely monitor inspection jobs
as they are performed by any machine vision camera on the factory floor. Using
the URL of an AutoVISION smart camera or PC-based Gigabit Ethernet camera, the
CloudLink interface can viewed in a browser to monitor inspection results
clearly and immediately as inspections occur.
The AutoVISION product family
continues to be the industry’s most flexible machine vision solution, allowing
users to build a complete inspection system from a range of tools. Portable and
scalable across cameras, software, industrial systems, and now mobile devices
using CloudLink, AutoVISION provides a single, adaptable vision system to
simplify every inspection challenge.
For more information about
CloudLink, visit www.microscan.com/Products/NewProducts/cloudlink.aspx.
