Making it simpler to implement applications on widely available Ethernet network elements, such as switches, network interface chips/cards, and Cat-5/6 or fiber cabling; and Delivering a standardized environment for the delivery of new-generation, networked video applications based on switched Ethernet architectures. What is Pleora’s role? Pleora is awarded a patent for a method and system for reliable management of multiple devices over a network bus – an innovation that underpins communications in the company’s GigE products. 2010 Pleora introduces a frame grabber for video delivery over 10 Gigabit Ethernet. The Pleora eBUS Universal Pro is a Windows filter driver that enhances the performance of your computer’s network interface card (NIC) when the eBUS SDK communicates with GigE Vision® compliant devices.
Pleora Technologies has proven expertise in real-time sensor networking for mission-critical applications. Our products are deployed in thousands of imaging applications, from automated quality inspection to image-guided surgery.
Global military manufacturers and system designers rely on our products, standards expertise, and systems knowledge to reduce cognitive burden and increase mission-effectiveness for end-users while meeting interoperability and scalability demands in size, weight, power and cost (SWaP-C) sensitive real-time security and defence imaging applications.
The company's networking expertise has been designed into local situational awareness (LSA), C4ISR, remote controlled weapon stations (RCWS), driver vision enhancer (DVE), perimeter security, chemical detection, and panoramic surveillance applications.
Real-Time Sensor Networking
Military imaging systems have traditionally used point-to-point interfaces to connect sensors, processors, and displays. This approach adds costs, redundancy and failure concerns, challenges future scalability, and more critically results in complex, difficult to operate vehicle electronics (vetronics) systems for an already overburdened crew.
In comparison, Pleora's interface products convert sensor data from multiple sources into a standardised feed that is transmitted over a low latency, multicast Gigabit Ethernet (GigE) network to endpoints. Migrating to a unified sensor and display network, manufacturers can significantly reduce hardware and peripheral equipment within the vehicle and deploy simplified, less expensive cabling to help meet cost and weight objectives.
With all devices connected to a common infrastructure, sensor data can be transmitted to any combination of mission computers and displays. Vehicle crew can view information they need on a single display, and know immediately if something has changed in their environment, without changing cabling or configuring software.
Networked Video Processing
Pleora's RuggedCONNECT Networked Video Processing Unit (NVPU) platform is a fundamental building block for developing real-time sensor networks operating in harsh environments. Manufacturers can design standards-compliant vehicle platforms that are rapidly deployable, mission configurable, and cost-effective, with full scalability to ensure future capabilities to increase mission effectiveness can be incorporated with minimum integration effort.
The scalable, modular technology platform enabling the design of straightforward camera-to-display systems and cost-effective evolution to fully networked architectures integrating different sensor and display types, switching, processing, and recording units. The RuggedCONNECT NVPU-8A2D includes eight analogue composite inputs supporting RS-170/NTSC/PAL and two independent DVI-D single link displays for vehicle-based local situational awareness (LSA) and driver vision enhancer (DVE) applications.
Modular, Scalable, Open Networking Platform
The RuggedCONNECT NVPU platform architecture is designed for scalability, with a flexible approach for interfacing sensors, displays, networks, and general communications I/O. A highly configurable carrier card architecture enables modular internal assembly to address various sensor interfaces, such as HD-SDI, CameraLink, DVI, RGB, STANAG, and display interfaces including VGA, HD-SDI, HDMI, DisplayPort, and analog composite. Designers can leverage the platform's flexible input, output, network, and communications capabilities - including basic sensor, display, or network-only processing units - to address video sensor and display standards and tailor solutions to specific system and SWaP-C needs.
The RuggedCONNECT platform meets video performance requirements outlined in Def Stan 00-082 (VIVOE), STANAG 4697 (PLEVID), and MISB ST 1608 to enable to design of vehicle electronics platforms that comply with STANAG 4754 (NGVA), Def Stan 23-009 (GVA), and VICTORY guidelines.
Powerful Processing Capabilities
Combining the high-performance video networking capabilities of RuggedCONNECT with the powerful GPU resources of the NVIDIA Jetson TX2i, designers can easily add application-specific image processing and graphics overlay decision-support capabilities to reduce cognitive burden and increase mission effectiveness.
Options range from image fusion, 360 degree stitching, map/terrain overlay, and image enhancement to more demanding capabilities such as convolutional-neural-network based threat detection and classification.
Manage and Connect Multi-Vendor Systems
Pleora's eBUS360 SDK (software development kit) is a feature rich solution that simplifies design of standards-compliant software applications that receive both Def Stan 00-082 Vetronics Infrastructure for Video Over Ethernet (VIVOE) and GigE Vision video streams in GVA (Def Stan 23-009) and NGVA (STANAG 4754) LSA and C4ISR platforms.
eBUS360 SDK networks ruggedised GigE Vision and VIVOE cameras, sensors, and video equipment from multiple vendors through a comprehensive API that is portable across Linux and Windows operating systems. Building image processing applications on top of eBUS360, users are no longer tied to manufacturer-speci¬fic SDKs and can develop systems using any GigE Vision and VIVOE compliant camera or image sensor. By using a shared SDK for all transport functions, designers can preserve existing software investments while adding advanced systems capabilities to help increase mission effectiveness.
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Perception Park programs can stream their output as GigE Vision stream (GenICam compliant stream over ethernet connections). This article covers problems, where the connection or streaming can not be established.
Before any further actions, be sure that GigE Vision compliant streaming is enabled.
See the article GigE Vision compliant streaming.
Make sure that the network is configured properly and that all needed cables are physically connected. If there are any errors shown in the program output, the program will most likely not send any stream and will also not appear as GigE Vision camera in the network.
Please see the solutions below.
ERROR: No valid GEVServer available
In order to work, the machine which runs the Perception Park software needs to be connected to at least one network. This can be a local network
with or without DHCP or a simple direct connection to another PC. If this condition is not met or no network card can be found, the following errors
might be displayed:
here the default IP can be set in the 'PerceptionCore.ini' file as follows
Note that the system defaults to this IP if anything fails
ERROR: The default GEVServer IP address is not valid. The IP, stored in the configuration will be used
The default IP address (set in 'PerceptionCore.ini' ) is not valid.
ERROR: The GEVServer IP address inside the configuration file is not valid. The default IP will be used.
The MAC & IP address, defined in the active configuration are not valid for the PC. Note that the network cards are scanned for the MAC first,
then for the IP. The error is shown if both fails. In this case, the default IP is used.
Pleora's eBUS Player is a very stable GigE Vision receiver program contained in Pleora's eBUS SDK. Our tests have shown, that it was always able to connect to cameras/Perception Park programs via GigE Vision interface, even when other programs (including Perception Park programs) could not. Thus, it is the perfect software to test the connection if all other options fail.
Common Vision Blox (CVB) is used by Perception Park software internally to enable GigE Vision compliancy and is automatically installed with Perception Park products since version 2.0. CVB provides a program called GenICam Browser, which can be used to connect to GenICam compliant cameras. Thus, it is the first choice to test whether a Perception Park program sends the correct stream.
CVB can not detect camera/Perception Park programs
First be sure that everything is physically connected and all network settings are correct. You can use eBUS player to verify that streaming works.
Silicon Software programs/installations may interfere with CVB's installation. This can usually be fixed by reinstalling CVB. To do this go to the program folder of your Perception Park program. the directory contains a folder named 'dependencies'. within this folder you will find the CVB Runtime installer. Install it and restart the system if prompted. After this retest if the connection can be established.
GenICam Browser shows wrong colors
There is a known problem with the CVB programs, which causes all received streams to be shown wrong. we verify that our software sends the correct information with our own GeniCam receiver. The CVB programs (CVB 13.02.001) show different behavior, depending on the bitdepth of the stream. The stream's bitdepth can be changed when creating a configuration or by reimporting an existing configuration.
8bit Streams (what the core usually sends):
Genicam browser displays a wrong image where the blue color channel is always the same as the green color channel. but when saving the image (e.g. in BMP format) the colors are correct. thus, the correct information is transmitted but the displayed image is wrong. please also test this by saving the image and checking colors.
16bit Streams(e.g. TrueColor App):
The data is sent correctly. we tested this with our own genicam receiver. but the CVB programs (and also other GeniCam receiver programs) are not able to read and display it correctly. however, the transmitted information is correct and does just need to be read the right way.
HALCON software can be used to receive GigE Vision streams from Perception Park Software. Depending on the setup, the machines might need to be configured differently as stated below.
HALCON Setup with 2 PCs
If you have one PC for Perception Core and another PC to run HALCON, you have to install the HALCON streaming filter on the used Ethernet adapter
on the HALCON PC
HALCON Setup on 1 PC
If you want to use 1 PC which runs Perception Core and HALCON at the same time, you need to UNINSTALL the HALCON streaming filter from the
Ethernet adapter(s)
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