Embedded devices increasingly offer improved performance at lower costs, compared to industrial PCs. This enables machine vision applications to be executed on these devices, not just on PC-based systems. Typically, embedded devices are vision sensors, smart sensors, smart cameras, and single-board computers.

MVTec's machine vision software HALCON and MERLIC run perfectly on embedded devices and thus enable innovative and high-performing embedded vision products, available on the market as bundles or standard software products. To optimize implementation, our software also supports all relevant interfaces, such as GigEVision, USB3Vision, Video4Linux, and MIPI CSI for image acquisition or the OPC UA interface for communication with the PLC.

Within these products, our software allows for fast implementation and maximum compatibility (e.g., regarding operating systems and architectures). This is also thanks to the fact that by default, HALCON (including its deep learning technologies) is ready to be used on Arm®-based platforms without further porting. Learn more below. Furthermore, HALCON (free trial here) and MERLIC (free trial here) facilitate great flexibility for configuring and/or programming embedded vision applications.