Pleora Technologies Inc. is a privately held Canadian company that specializes in video transmitters and receivers that enable the streaming of data or video in real-time over standard

Gigabit Ethernet In computer networking, Gigabit Ethernet (GbE or 1 GigE) is the term applied to transmitting Ethernet frames at a rate of a gigabit per second. The most popular variant, 1000BASE-T, is defined by the IEEE 802.3ab standard. It came into use i ...

networks. The company was founded in 2000 by George Chamberlain and Alain Rivard.

Services

Pleora works with integrators and manufacturers designing real-time imaging systems for the industrial automation, military, and medical sectors. The company provides hardware solutions (external frame grabbers and embedded video interfaces) that stream imaging and sensor data over Ethernet or USB networks, software for device management, image acquisition and display, and custom solutions. The company's products are designed into a diverse range of applications, including automated inspection systems, local situational awareness in military vehicles, and X-ray flat panel detectors.

History

In 2003, Pleora served as a key member of a team of 12 leading industry players who initiated development of a standard for the delivery of high-speed imaging data over

.GigE Vision Standard Committee
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Automated Imaging Association Automated Imaging Association (AIA) is the world's largest machine vision trade group. AIA has more than 350 members from 32 countries, including system integrators, camera, lighting and other vision components manufacturers, vision software prov ...

''Frost & Sullivan Product Innovation Award Recognizes Pioneering Role of Pleora Technologies in Bringing GigE to Machine Vision World
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The management of the standard later moved to the Automated Imaging Association (AIA) and became known as the

GigE Vision GigE Vision is an interface standard introduced in 2006 for high-performance industrial cameras. It provides a framework for transmitting high-speed video and related control data over Ethernet networks. The distribution of software or development, ...

Standard initiative. Version 1.2 of the

standard was ratified in January 2010. Pleora's hardware and software products have received numerous awards, including the Frost & Sullivan 2007 Product Innovation Award (iPORT Connectivity Solution) and Best Software in Advanced Imaging Pro's 2007 Readers Choice Awards (eBUS Driver Suite).Advanced Imaging Readers' Choice Awards
from ''Advanced Imaging Pro'' Pleora has a global network of partners and distributors and is headquartered in

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, Canada.

References

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