Features 353

The Elphel cameras are highly customizable Network cameras.

Turnkey and OEM models exist, both are totally customizable for the customer's task.

Key features

• high resolution sensors support
• high speed compression: 80 MPix/s
• there is many modes of shooting: JPEG, MJPEG, JP4, Motion JP4, HDR modes
• user friendly scripting on the camera (PHP5, well defined and Open API)
• totally FreeSoftware: all firmware sources both for GNU/Linux and FPGA are distributed under GNU/GPL v3 license. The SDK is composed of FOSS components (not include ISE Webpack for FPGA development, but this software is freely downloadable)
•  full hardware documentation is also available under GNU/FDL v1.2 license.

Power

• POE 802.3af
• or optionally a 9-36v POE (not 802.3af complaint)

Interesting possibilities

• GPS and compass integration
• synchronized shooting (multiple sensors, multiple cameras, external trigger)
• Standard GNU/Linux distribution offer the possibility to port existing software and kernel drivers for support more external devices (USB gadgets, converters, ...)

 Application areas 

• scientific imagery and video applications
•  medical imagery
• timelapse videos (Including HDR support)
• geotagging applications
• high speed video