• Sick India Private Limited

Sensor Integration Machine

SICK has launched the SIM4000 Sensor Integration Machine. This is a high-performance multi-camera and sensor processor that provides a one-box solution for multi-technology sensor integration which extends far beyond vision applications. As part of the SICK AppSpace eco-system, it not only opens new doors for customised application solutions, but also enables advanced object transformation for quality control, process analysis, and predictive maintenance for vertical integration in Industry 4.0. When it comes to sophisticated image processing algorithms – involving the fusion of 2D or 3D sources to form a scatter plot, for example – a powerful, hardware-accelerated multi-core processor ensures image pre-processing and I/O handling in real time. The integrated HALCON image processing library and the open SICK AppSpace software platform make it possible to flexibly develop customer-specific solutions for ambitious 2D and 3D vision applications. The programmable SIM4000 Sensor Integration Machine offers system integrators and OEMs the freedom and opportunity to develop applications to fit the customer’s specific requirements. Alongside the conventional, relevant image processing tasks, data from SICK sensors and cameras can be merged into a point cloud, evaluated, archived, and transmitted. 8-gigabit Ethernet interfaces are available for 2D or 3D cameras, and in some cases feature a voltage supply over Ethernet (PoE). Additional SICK sensors can be integrated via IO-Link to include distance and height measurement, for example.