Product Description:

The VSC523R22.041P-000 is a Smart Camera manufactured by B & R Automation for the VS Smart Sensors series. Classified in the Integrated machine vision product range, the unit merges imaging, illumination, and processing to deliver real-time inspection and guidance for industrial automation lines. Its compact housing eliminates the need for an external controller, allowing the camera to be wired directly to control cabinets where vision feedback is required for part presence, orientation, and quality verification.

Internal processing hinges on a quad-core Cortex A9 i.MX6 SoC clocked at 800 MHz. The processor uses 4 execution units and works with 2 GB of DDR3 RAM; this capacity holds image buffers and neural weights during runtime. A 1 MB L2 cache shortens memory latency between the cores and the vision pipeline. The native sensor delivers 1.3 MP and streams at 165 fps, so high-speed pick-and-place stations receive multiple inspection frames each cycle. A dedicated inference accelerator handles preprocessing, enabling several vision functions simultaneously, such as edge detection and barcode reading, without occupying the main CPU. Line sensor support allows the same hardware to capture continuous web material.

The optical path is defined by a fixed 37° field of view produced by an 8 mm focal length lens (F4, 1/1.8″) that attaches through an S-mount interface for rapid swapping on the factory floor. Front glass with an anti-reflective coating protects the optics from glare, while LED lens type 2 directs the integrated illumination. The ring includes 16 LEDs arranged in four multicolored segments, and each segment can emit R / B / IR / White light to match varying surface properties. Combined with the camera’s Deep learning variant, these features allow lighting and inference parameters to be adjusted from the PLC without external strobes or lenses.