Back to the beginning

Probably Nicéphore Niépce, creator of the very first photograph in 1826, could not have imagined in his wildest dreams where the journey of photography would lead. The picture, which was taken with a camera obscura and a tin plate coated with asphalt, marked the birth of photography. The evoVIU smart camera was born 189 years after Niépce took his first picture. No trace of asphalt and tin plates anymore, but lots of bits and bytes. How it came to the invention of the evoVIU and how the evoVIU has developed in its so far rather short history, you can read here. The need for a smart camera like the evoVIU became apparent when the market was looking for a robust and technically advanced camera in connection with the evoTrQ system. A camera was to be placed in a forming press that could read out freshly lasered codes and further process the data obtained – all while flying along on the crossbar feeder. The cameras with corresponding functions available on the market at that time were out of the question because either the load would have been too great, the camera itself too massive for the environment or the supply of the cameras in the pressing plant would not have been guaranteed. True to the company motto it’s possible, the task was taken into their own hands, their own resources were exhausted and the starting shot for the development of the Smart Camera evoVIU was fired!