Non-industrial applications of machine vision systems

The use of machine vision technology is well established in the industrial arena, but machine vision systems are increasingly being used in a range of more esoteric applications. Indeed, according to German industrial association VDMA, the versatility of modern machine vision systems has driven their deployment in areas as diverse as retail, traffic management and agriculture.

One company that appears particularly keen to exploit this phenomenon is one of Europe’s largest machine vision companies, Stemmer Imaging.

RVI technology was recently used to probe a 1st century burial tomb in Jerusalem

Headquartered in Germany, Stemmer Imaging has recently been trumpeting the use of its technology in a range of non-industrial settings.
In one particularly fascinating application, Stemmer engineers have been working alongside researchers at Dresden Technical University to develop road inspection systems that can carefully analyse the surface of a road while travelling at speeds of up to 130km/h.