Teledyne Lumenera’s Lt Series Board Level Cameras are ideally suited for UAVs

October 27, 2020 | AUVSI News

Teledyne Lumenera’s Lt Series Board Level Cameras offer a smaller, lighter, and lower cost imaging solution. Equipped with the latest rolling shutter Starvis™ CMOS sensors and global shutter Pregius™ CMOS sensors from Sony®, the cameras range in resolution from 2-12 megapixels, and provide the flexibility to meet the requirements of a wide variety of imaging systems.

The cameras are ideally suited for UAVs. As Teledyne Lumenra explains, the fundamental concerns for imaging systems for aerial imaging is size, weight, and power restrictions (SWaP), which limits the choice of cameras for vision system applications such as precision agriculture, aerial surveillance, photogrammetry, and aerial inspection. Teledyne Lumenera’s board level cameras offer better imaging performance with a short, light form factor, and with the power of USB, are ideal for unmanned aerial vehicles. Thanks to their size, the cameras also allow UAVs to reduce their size, which leads to a reduction in weight to increase flight time.

For easy access, the Teledyne Lumenera Board Level Cameras have ports located on the side of the camera. Instead of connecting to the back of the camera, which would generally mean a longer amount of space required within a design, having connectors on the side allows for the back of these cameras to lie flush against the other components of the device. These side connectors can be also placed on the top or bottom of the camera, so if an application requires using multiple cameras side by side, there will not be interference from the cable position.

With these design considerations, as well as others such as a flat-back design that minimizes the space required for vision systems, the Board Level Cameras are designed specifically to meet the challenges of today’s embedded systems. By eliminating extra camera weight and housing material, the cameras help ease the vision system design process, which makes it easier for system designers to integrate these cameras into existing product designs. A board level camera also allows system designers more flexibility around lens options for their imaging application.

“The Teledyne Lumenera Lt Series Board Level Cameras offer the full set of features that the imaging industry has come to expect,” explains Brooks Riendeau, Vice President of Marketing, Teledyne Lumenera.

“Instead of compromising on a camera because of its size, the new Board Level Cameras come in the most compact design Teledyne Lumenera has offered to date.”

Riendeau adds that the feedback thus far from customers that have integrated these cameras into their systems has been extremely positive.

“So far, our customers have commented very positively on the image quality of the cameras and the flexibility of selection so that then can get the specific camera dialed in perfectly for their specific application,” he says.

“With more board level cameras on the way, Teledyne Lumenera will be able to provide even more flexibility across an even greater number of applications.”