2017

Our uEye LE USB 3.1 Gen 1 is nominated for the inspect award 2018 and takes part at the readers poll. By voting until August 31, 2017 you will take part at the reader prize draw - a high quality reflex camera.

IDS focuses on sustainability and future oriented energy generation and utilization.

New and available for download - The IDS Vision Suite for Windows and Linux.

As of now the IDS webstore is launched for B2B customers in Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg.

Until recently, robots were "blind" command receivers which followed predefined and fixed paths. Using 3D data, robots can adapt flexibly to the particular situation and react to their surroundings.

After another record year in 2016, growth is also forecast for the current year.

The long-term availability of our products is just as important to us as our efforts to optimize delivery times. Delivery times are always in our focus – we want to continue to maintain our standard of having every camera ready for shipment within one to two weeks, and sometimes in less than a week.

What's that dot in my image? If you're asking yourself this question, then you've probably just discovered a hot pixel.

With the Ensenso X, IDS is introducing a new 3D camera system that makes 3D vision applications even easier and more flexible to implement.

2017 is a special year for IDS. Jürgen Hartmann founded the company in 1997, together with his business partner at the time, Armin Vogt. They were two men with one vision. This year, we are celebrating the 20th anniversary of our company, which now has 220 employees who make up a great team, mainly at our German headquarters in Obersulm, but also internationally in our four subsidiaries and three offices.

The latest IDS Software Suite 4.82 is now available on the camera manufacturer's website and can be downloaded free of charge. The driver package for all USB and GigE industrial cameras from IDS is available with a range of additional features and also supports USB Power Delivery (PD) for the new uEye LE USB 3.1 Gen 1 industrial cameras with the USB Type-C connector.

Just quickly test an embedded image processing application? This task does not have to fail upon the complex cross compiling of source code.

How can a drone help in a disaster situation? Drones can be put to a variety of uses, such as taking water samples, casting down life belts, or providing geodata and images from areas that are difficult or even impossible for people to access.

Since January 2017 the IDS Imaging Development Systems GmbH is represented by a subsidiary in the United Kingdom. Additionally, the company creates a new position in the application engineering. Thus, the leading manufacturer of industrial cameras underlines the importance of the local machine vision market.