GigE Vision Camera

The Mercury 2 Pro GigE Vision Camera series is an industrial vision camera, with a GigE Vision interface. This industrial vision camera series feature high resolution, low noise global shutter sensors in a compact housing. GigE is the most common interface for camera’s in traditional machine vision applications. ME2P series have advanced features. If you are using advanced features, please contact us, so we can double check if the specific feature is present or can be implemented for you. It also support "remove parameter limit" to expand the range of exposure, gain, white balance etc. Exposure times up to 10 seconds are possible.
The GigE Vision Camera series is interesting for you when your application complies with the following conditions:
-    A compact high resolution global shutter camera
-    Maximum cable length of 100 meters
-    Inexpensive and easy installation of cables
-    Only one cable is required to connect the industrial camera
-    advanced image processing features

If more details are required, the manual of the ME2P GigE Vision camera can be consulted.

MTBF, warranty & product life cycle

Each year, Daheng Imaging produces more than 100.000 industrial cameras according to the highest quality standards. The mean time between failure (MTBF) is more than 400.000 hours (45 years, 24/7). The industrial cameras are certified by TÜV Rheinland and have a 3 year warranty. After market introduction, every camera model is available for at least 7 years. Most cameras have a much longer product life cycle. For more information about our product life cycle management, check this article.

Industrial Color Camera

A color camera makes use of a Bayer pattern to produce a colored image. The RGB value of every pixel is being calculated by taking the value of a pixel, in combination with all the values of neighboring pixels. This results into less sharp images than those of a monochrome camera. Due to the RGB filter on the pixels, every single pixel, considering white light, captures up to 66% less photons than a monochrome camera. Which makes a color camera less light sensitive than a monochrome one. To compensate this, the following options are available:
-    Increase the amount of light
-    Increase the gain
-    Increase shutter speed / exposure time
-    Select a more light sensitive sensor
-    Select a more light sensitive lens
Compared to security cameras and webcams, an industrial color camera has larger and more light sensitive pixels. Providing you an excellent image quality.

Advanced vision camera features

The ME2P GigE vision camera serie has both standard and advanced features onboard, like:
- Programmable ROI, increased frame rate with partial scan
- Gain, exposure and white balance programmable (white balance only for color models)
- Support auto gain, auto exposure and auto white balance (auto white balance only for color models)
- Four acquisition controls: Single frame acquisition / Continuous acquisition / Software trigger acquisition / External trigger acquisition
- Compatible with GenICam™and GigE Vision®, can be used in a wide range of 3rd-party software such as HALCON and LabVIEW directly
- Multiple samples and easy-to-integrate SDK for various programming tools
- Regulations: CE, RoHS, GenICam, GigE Vision

The complete set of features makes the ME2P GigE Vision camera serie a perfect choice for high performance image processing.