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Pleora Technologies’ iPORT NTx-Mini-LC with RapidPIX compression. | Source: Pleora Technologies

Pleora Technologies has introduced its patented RapidPIX lossless compression technology. The company said RapidPix can increase data throughput by almost 70% while meeting the low latency and reliability demands of machine vision applications.

The Kanata, Ontario, Canada-based company said RapidPIX is initially available on Pleora’s new iPORT NTx-Mini-LC platform, which provides a compression-enabled drop-in upgrade of the NTX-Mini embedded interface.

“System designers have been asking us for ways to increase resolution and frame rates over existing Ethernet infrastructure for machine vision applications, without compromising on latency or image data integrity that Pleora is known for,” Jonathan Hou, president of Pleora Technologies, said. “With RapidPIX we’re meeting this demand.

“Pleora’s patented compression technique delivers bandwidth advantages that increase performance without impacting the data quality required for accurate processing in critical applications. As an immediate advantage, designers can cost-effectively increase data throughput while retaining existing installed infrastructure. While boosting performance our compression technology helps further conserve valuable resources, including power consumption, to reduce system costs.”

Pleora: added compression has many benefits

Pleora said that with added compression, engineers can deploy the iPORT NTx-Mini-LC to support low latency transmission of GigE Vision-compliant packets at more than 1.5 Gbps throughput rates over existing 1 Gb Ethernet infrastructure. 

With RapidPIX, systems feed imagining data into the RapidPIX encoder. The encoder then analyses imaging data against compression profiles and selects the best approach based on the application requirements. Pleora said latency performance is less than two lines, or approximately 0.022 milliseconds, when deployed on a system operating at 1024×1024 resolution, Mono8 pixel format with two taps at 40 MHz. The company says users can further reduce latency performance depending on the number of taps and pixel format. 

Pleora said the lossless compression system also minimizes the amount of data transmitted over the network. This reduces power consumption. Additionally, the mathematically lossless compression technology supports multi-taps and multi-components. 

To speed time-to-market, Pleora offers the iPORT NTx-Mini-LC with RapidPIX Development Kit. The company said this kit helps manufacturers develop system or camera prototypes and proof-of-concepts easily and rapidly, often without undertaking hardware development.