VISION 2014: Xenics Introduces "Serval" IP67 Ruggedized LWIR Camera for Industrial Vision

Serval fulfils a growing, highly cost conscious submarket demand for rugged and reliable, end-user-ready cameras for industrial imaging and thermography applications without the need for third-party enclosures. Serval is directed at demanding indoor uses, such as in-line process and quality control in harsh and hot industrial environments. It also serves crucial hot-spot, fire and smoke detection applications. In this highly specialized field, industrial sales channels and system

integrators are looking for new solutions in terms of easy and maintenance-free installation as well as long-term stability.

The Serval camera, aptly named after the intelligent and autonomous nocturnal

wild cat living in the African Savannah, is repositioning and evolving the proven Gobi-GigE thermal imaging series. Serval has been designed for long-term stable and reliable operation under difficult ambient conditions. The new Serval LWIR industrial imaging camera comes with on-board analytics and calibration for thermal

imaging or thermography usage. The camera is easy to integrate to third party software by C# and LabVIEW SDK over a GigE Vision interface.

Its compact form factor provides front window protection with air purge to avoid costly repair or replacement of the lens and to allow permanent use in dust-loaded atmospheres.

As a specific advantage compared to existing similar solutions, the new Xenics Serval offers a variety of configurations with a fixed athermalized lens and optional

cooling on its housing; all combined with a very small form factor. The camera comes with an IP67 protection grade enclosure such that no large third-party enclosure is needed anymore when adding a thermal imaging installation to given machine vision applications.