QuaSolo: a lean alternative to complete vision systems
QuaVis Technologies introduces QuaSolo, its smart camera for inline inspection. One camera head, one passively cooled compute unit, and a browser – no PC, no seat licence, no vision library to learn.
Many inspection tasks fall between a vision sensor that does one thing and a complete vision system that brings a PC, a licence and an integrator. QuaSolo is built for that middle: the sensor, the compute unit, the AI accelerator, the interfaces to the line and the configuration software are all in the camera.
An inspection is a flow of tools, not a program
Tools are wired from the frame to the verdict by drag and drop. Edge, line and circle finders walk a search box across the picture; construction tools turn their results into distances and intersections; a coordinate system tool puts every box after it in the part’s frame of reference, so the boxes follow a part that arrives shifted and turned. A tool whose input is not wired is marked before the run starts, rather than failing on the first part.
Measure, read, decide
Measured: edges, lines, circles, angles, grey values, distances in millimetres once the camera is calibrated. Read: bar codes, DataMatrix and QR codes, printed text by OCR. Decided: each measurement against its nominal, tolerance bands separate the result classes, and the worst class is the verdict.
Two AI tools, and nothing leaves the camera
Two AI tools use the on-device accelerator. The part finder locates the part and hands the tools after it a coordinate system. The looks-right check scores how closely a part resembles the good ones it was shown – taught by letting good parts pass the camera, so a new part is learned in about a minute – and finds what no specification describes: a scratch, a smear, a missing step. The camera runs a network compiled for its accelerator; it does not compile one.
Results on the line, operation in the browser
Results leave over OPC UA after OPC 40100-1, MQTT and digital I/O, with WLAN as an option. Operation is a browser on a PC, a tablet or a smartphone, with nothing to install, and the operator’s view shows the inspected picture, the values, the cycle time and the logged-in user. The number of products is unlimited, each with its own flow and calibration, and per-function permissions decide who may change what.
The camera head is small, robust industrial hardware from 0.4 to 24 megapixels; the compute unit is cooled passively, so there is no fan and no filter to change.
Available now
QuaSolo is available now, at an introductory price. All technical data and highlights are on the product page: QuaSolo – the QuaVis smart camera.