He wants to have color pictures taken for surveillance only - just to see if the part was mishandled and such. That is, there's absolutely no requirement for any kind of image analysis.
He initially thought to use a PCI-1411 card with a standard video camera (PAL in our case) and snap pictures (2 every second while the part is in transport and 4 per second during the process).
This results in LOTS of pictures which requires LOTS of disk space and archiving to DVD (about 2 days of pictures and data per DVD). They do about 10,000 parts each month.
My question is: does anyone have a better idea?
Just thought I'd throw this out to the multitude of brilliant (not to mention creative) people on this list to see if we've missed something.
One more thing: the pictures would only be displayed off-line together with a part's data whenever the user wants. I suspect that each picture would have to be compressed (JPEG?) to conserve space.
Thanks (in advance), E. Blasberg iDAQ Solutions Ltd
