Balluff - BVS CA-GT Technical Documentation
Introduction

Table of Contents

Figure 1: BVS CA-GT1

The BVS CA-GT1 is an extreme compact and flexible industrial 10 Gigabit Ethernet camera family compliant to GigE Vision and GenICam. The BVS CA-GT1 family offers

  • a wide range of sensors,
  • high frame rates over long distances using inexpensive standard network parts,
  • I/Os suitable for industrial applications, and
  • wide range of resolutions.

The BVS CA-GT1 family is ideally suited for all classical areas of machine vision and allows an easy integration in the environment and support the application with helpful features to deliver faster and better results. The hardware capabilities can be teamed with machine vision libraries which are compliant to GigE Vision.

Software concept

The BVS CA-GT1 family is a GigE Vision compliant device, using a GenICam XML-file describing the device capabilities. Within this XML-file it uses the names, units, data types etc. recommended by the SFNC to describe the devices features. Whenever custom features have been added to the BVS CA-GT1 firmware these can clearly be spotted by the leading 'mv' in the features name. The device can communicate with every third party compliant GigE Vision capture driver that can interpret GenICam XML-files.

The following figure shows the software concept of GenICam™ GenTL compliant devices built by Balluff/MATRIX VISION:

Figure 2: Software concept

As shown in figure 2, for the BVS CA-GT1 the Impact Acquire interface is stacked on the GigE Vision and Genicam layers. The Impact Acquire interface internally uses the GenICam runtime libraries, so that it can be considered as a user application written with the GenICam interface.

Order code nomenclature

BVS CA-GT1

The BVS CA-GT1 family nomenclature scheme is as follows:

Sensor Model name
5.1 Mpix, 2472 x 2064, 1/1.8'', IMX537, CMOS BVS CA-GT1-0051BG/C
8.1 Mpix, 2848 x 2848, 2/3'', IMX487, CMOS BVS CA-GT1-0081UG/C
8.1 Mpix, 2845 x 2848, 2/3'', IMX536, CMOS BVS CA-GT1-0081ZG/C
12.4 Mpix, 4128 x 3008, 1/1.1'', IMX535, CMOS BVS CA-GT1-0124BG/C
16.2 Mpix, 5328 x 3040, 1.1'', IMX532, CMOS BVS CA-GT1-0162ZG/C
20.4 Mpix, 4512 x 4512, 1.1'', IMX531, CMOS BVS CA-GT1-0204ZG/C
24.6 Mpix, 5328 x 4608, 1.2'', IMX530, CMOS BVS CA-GT1-0246ZG/C
Series Sensor Color HW Variant CUP/STD
Typecode BVS CA-GT1- xxxxx G/C - see legend below - see legend below
Legend Model name
HW Variant (1)(2)(3)(4)(5)(6)

(1): Handling
1: Standard handling

(2): Lensholder
1: C-mount Type 2 with high durability and factory-set backfocus (standard)

(3): Filter
1: IR-CUT (standard)
2: Glass

More filters on request

(4): Housing
1: Color black (standard)
F: Color black with cooling fan

(5): I/O
4: POE with M12 industrial grade I/O connectors

(6): Software Adjustments
0: None
CUP/STD 001

What's inside and accessories

Due to the varying fields of application the BVS CA-GT1 is shipped without accessories. The package contents:

  • BVS CA-GT1

For the first use of BVS CA-GT1 we recommend the following accessories to get the camera up and running:

  • network cable and
  • power supply via
    • 24 V (1.5 A) power supply (see below) or
    • Power over Ethernet+ (PoE+).

Recommended accessories for the BVS CA-GT1 can be found on the product page: