Product Description:

B & R Automation’s VSS112R14.041P-000 is a member of the Smart Sensor product group in the VS Smart Sensors series. Delivered in the integrated machine vision range, it combines imaging, illumination, and processing in a single housing for direct mounting on production lines. In automation, its role is to capture scenes, preprocess them inside the housing, and output logical results so controllers can make decisions about position, quality, or presence without an external PC.

The imaging core produces a 74° horizontal field of view when used with the factory lens, feeding a 3.5 MP monochrome or color image stream to internal memory. At a sustained 43 fps, scenes are digitized quickly enough for medium-speed pick-and-place or code-verification tasks. An ARM clock of 800 MHz works with 1 GB of DDR3 RAM so single-frame thresholding or blob analysis can run in real time. Only one active vision function can be deployed at a time, which keeps operation predictable. This model uses two processing cores, and both its preprocessing performance and variant option are standard. Because it is not suitable for line-scan operation, applications must remain in area-scan mode.

The optical stack centers on an 8 mm focal length, F4 lens seated in an S-mount, and the front element uses glass with an anti-reflective coating that helps limit glare from overhead lighting. Scene illumination is integrated through 16 LEDs (4 segments with 4 multicolored LEDs each) positioned behind an LED lens type 1 wide-beam diffuser, allowing red, blue, infrared, or white output per segment. Image processing is handled by the Cortex A9 i.MX6 dual core architecture, supported by a 512 kB L2 cache for predictable memory access. The unit does not support line-scan sensing and is intended for compact area-scan inspection tasks.