(Neue Messe Stuttgart, Vision 2008)
Aegis Electronic Group, Inc.'s General Manager, Sonja Walker and Project Manager, William Larson-Garcia attended The Vision Show in Boston, MA on June 10-12th. The camera manufacturers were primarily pushing the Camera Link industrial camera technology, as well as, the Gigabit Ethernet digital camera technology. There appeared to be less of the Firewire IEEE-1394.b camera technology, although Point Grey and Allied Vision Technology were displaying the technology. Lumenera and IDS (Ueye USB cameras) had their USB cameras on display. The Vision Show was small and had mixed reviews. Some vendors seem to think that the traffic was slow but steady, while others complained of low attendance.
The Vision Show is set to be in Arizona next year March 31st - April 2nd at the Phoenix Convention Center. The interesting thing about this is that it conflicts with the Apex IPC Show in Las Vegas on the same dates, as well as ISC West in Las Vegas on the same dates.
The feedback on the conferences offered was positive with a highlight to the conference titled Connectivity Performance in Machine Vision Systems Design. Reynold Dodson, President of Bitflow, Inc. and Steve Kinney, Director of Technical Sales, JAI, Inc., both gave very informative information on upcoming releases for simplified connectivity with respect to Camera Link and monochrome applications, a new standard called Camera Link Lite (no PoCL) is coming out. They also discussed the trend to move away form PoCL for longer length applications due to the amount of power that some cameras require.
It will be interesting to see what the turnout is for Stuttgart for Vision 2008, November 4-6, 2008. The expectations are high from what everyone indicated at The Vision Show.
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