HSCAM STREAMER family — Smart Industrial High-Speed Camera
Available nowHSCAM STREAMER 1M13
Monochrome high-speed streaming camera for continuous, unattended capture over USB3.0, with analogue and digital measurement channels recorded on the same clock as every frame.
- Full-frame resolution / rate
- 1,280 × 864 px @ 1,300 fps continuous
- Reduced-ROI rate
- 1,280 × 4 px @ 168,000 fps continuous
- Minimum exposure
- 1 µs
- Interface
- USB3.0, up to ~300 MB/s streaming
Differentiators
Continuous streaming, not a memory buffer
A typical high-speed camera trades recording time for frame rate: a trigger fills a short on-board memory buffer, then the camera goes quiet while it offloads. STREAMER 1M13 doesn't wait for a trigger — it's already recording, continuously, over standard USB3.0, so an unpredictable event doesn't need to be predicted in advance to be captured.
Continuous streaming
24/7 operation over USB3.0 — not a short buffered burst.
Edge-preserving compression
In-camera compression brings sustained data rate within reach of standard storage — quantified on a real deployment below.
Synchronized measurement
4× 16-bit ADC and 2× GPIO channels captured on the same clock as every frame.
STREAMER 1M13 is used in industrial process monitoring, synchronized multi-camera acquisition and scientific instrumentation. The timing and data-rate figures on this page come from the process-monitoring deployment, in a steel mill.
Used in:
- Steel & rolling mill process monitoring
- Synchronized video & measurement acquisition (Punching-Ball demo)
- Scientific instrumentation (Nitrogen Phosphorus Detector)
Streaming architecture
From sensor to storage
A simplified view of the data path — the compression step is what makes sustained 24/7 streaming realistic over a standard interface.
Sensor
1,280×864 px @ 1,300 fps continuous
On-camera compression
Edge-preserving
USB3.0 interface
≤ ~300 MB/s
Host / storage
Standard PC or laptop
Synchronization
Video and measurement, on one clock
The steel-mill deployment reports two separate results: how closely video and measurements line up in time, and how accurately they line up in position.
Timing jitter (temporal)
~10 ms → nanosecond-range jitter
Without frame-synchronous acquisition vs. with HSCAM's synchronized system.
Sync accuracy (spatial)
Sub-millimeter accuracy
An independently stated figure.
Evidence
Demonstrated Results
Trade-show demonstration Demonstrated Results
Punching-Ball measurement fusion
HSCAM STREAMER 1M13 and 1C13 in MultiCAM mode, synchronized by exposure, triggered on an ADC threshold value, tracking a punching ball. Live HSCam Viewer software shown on-screen.
- Pre-trigger buffer
- 1 second
- Recorded at
- 1,280 × 864 px @ 1,000 fps, both cameras
Specifications
Full specifications
The frame rate in the last row was achieved in a real deployment.
| Specification | Value |
|---|---|
| Full-frame resolution / rate | 1,280 × 864 px @ 1,300 fps continuous |
| Reduced-ROI rate | 1,280 × 4 px @ 168,000 fps continuous |
| Minimum exposure | 1 µs |
| Interface | USB3.0, up to ~300 MB/s streaming |
| Shutter type | Global electronic shutter |
| Measurement inputs | 4× 16-bit ADC (±10 V), 2× GPIO (TTL) |
| Timecode | Modified IRIG-B |
| Region of interest | Variable ROI |
| Achieved frame rate in real deployment | > 1,300 fps continuous |
Software & integration
Four integration tiers, from Python to FPGA
Recording, playback and analysis run in HSCAM Viewer. Camera and recording behaviour can be scripted in Python; the FPGA tier reaches sub-microsecond latency.
| Integration tier | Latency · platform · who integrates |
|---|---|
| Python-Framework camera SDK | < 100 ms latency · PC/Laptop · customer with provided examples |
| Camera SDK integration | < 100 ms latency · PC/Laptop · customer with additional HSCAM support |
| FPGA integration | < 1 µs latency · on-camera · HSCAM only for now |
| DAQ extension | < 1 µs latency · DAQ module · HSCAM only for now |
Talk to an engineer about STREAMER 1M13
Tell us your frame rate, synchronization tolerance and housing requirements.
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