Product Description:

B&R Automation's VSS122Q11.031P-000 belongs to the VS Smart Sensors series and is categorized as a smart sensor within the integrated machine vision range. Supplied in an S-mount housing, it combines optics, processing, and lighting in a compact form for automated inspection and guidance tasks. The front window is glass with an anti-reflective coating, and the enclosure uses a type 1 wide-beam LED lens array, making the unit ready for direct mounting without external illumination. This self-contained design helps simplify placement in compact inspection stations. It supports one active vision function and is not suitable for line-sensor applications.

In the embedded controller, a Cortex A9 i.MX6 quad-core processor drives computation. Each core runs at 800 MHz, and the device provides 2 GB of DDR3 RAM for runtime buffers. A shared 1 MB L2 cache reduces latency between memory and logic, and symmetric multiprocessing allows all 4 cores to support deterministic preprocessing. The standard variant provides preprocessing performance suited to applications that need moderate real-time throughput. The memory and cache arrangement also supports image buffering and fast task switching during repeated inspection cycles.

The integrated optical stack centers on a 6 mm F3.5 1/1.8-inch lens that yields a diagonal field angle of 74°. The imager captures a resolution of 1.3 MP, and frames are delivered at up to 90 fps for motion-intensive inspections. Multicolored illumination is provided by 16 LEDs arranged in four segments, and each segment contains red, green, blue, and lime elements that can be driven independently for contrast enhancement. Independent color control helps the sensor emphasize edges, surface marks, and printed features on different materials. The wide-beam LED optics distribute light evenly across the scene, and the S-thread mount keeps lens replacement simple.