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Microscan CloudLink Interface Enables Users to Monitor Machine Vision Inspection from Any Web Browser
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Microscan, a global technology leader in barcode, machine vision, and lighting
solutions, announces the latest innovation as part of its award-winning
AutoVISION® machine vision suite, CloudLink web HMI. A machine vision
visualization tool for AutoVISION, CloudLink enables users to monitor live
machine vision inspections performed by AutoVISION software and smart
cameras in an interface that is accessible via web browser on any web-enabled
device (such as PCs, HMIs, tablets, and smart phones).

Machine vision inspection jobs in AutoVISION are uniquely portable across
hardware, software, industrial systems, and mobile platforms and devices. The
CloudLink web-based HMI greatly expands AutoVISION’s cross-platform
flexibility, giving users the freedom to view inspection operations from anywhere
at any time. Based on a machine vision inspection job created in AutoVISION
Machine Vision Software, CloudLink can display values from the inspection job
that have been linked to a shared data service over industrial protocols by
AutoVISION’s one-click connectivity tool, Microscan Link. These values include
images taken by the machine vision camera and the results of tools applied to
the image by the software, such as Measure, Count, Decode, Verify, and more. As
values are received, (such as the pass/fail results of a Count tool that counts
shapes on a part), they can be displayed in CloudLink in image, text, or graphical
format depending on how the user has tailored their CloudLink view.
The fully-customizable CloudLink Dashboard provides users with default widgets
for the easiest way to create a tailored window of inspection results within a
single view in a browser. Widgets can be added to the Dashboard to display
values in different formats, from images to data to charts & graphs. Historical
data and images are logged by Filmstrip, Chart, and Log widgets so users can
review past inspection results, such as the reason for a failure. Alternatively,
CloudLink API (Application Programming Interface) allows the CloudLink
technology to be added to any custom software for visualizing inspection results
on the user’s preferred platform.

Since it is web-based, CloudLink does not require any software to be installed on
the device that is used to monitor inspection operations. From PCs to tablets to
smart phones and more, users can access CloudLink via web browser to remotely
monitor inspection jobs as they are performed by any machine vision camera on
the factory floor. Using the URL of an AutoVISION smart camera or PC-based
Gigabit Ethernet camera, the CloudLink interface can viewed in a browser to
monitor inspection results clearly and immediately as inspections occur.
The AutoVISION product family continues to be the industry’s most flexible
machine vision solution, allowing users to build a complete inspection system
from a range of tools. Portable and scalable across cameras, software, industrial
systems, and now mobile devices using CloudLink, AutoVISION provides a single,
adaptable vision system to simplify every inspection challenge.

For more information about CloudLink, visit
http://www.microscan.com/Products/NewProducts/cloudlink.aspx.

About Microscan

Microscan is a global leader in technology for precision data acquisition and
control solutions serving a wide range of automation and OEM applications.
Founded in 1982, Microscan has a strong history of technology innovation that
includes the invention of the first laser diode barcode scanner and the 2D
symbology, Data Matrix. Today, Microscan remains a technology leader in
automatic identification and machine vision with extensive solutions for ID
tracking, traceability and inspection ranging from basic barcode reading up to
complex machine vision inspection, identification, and measurement.
As an ISO 9001:2008 certified company recognized for quality leadership in the
U.S., Microscan is known and trusted by customers worldwide as a provider of
quality, high precision products. Microscan is a Spectris company.
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