Alvium 1800 U
First pick for machine vision
Alvium 1800 U is a small and powerful industrial camera.
Benefit from high image quality at a great price-performance ratio!
Industrial USB cameras with attractive price-performance ratio
Alvium 1800 U is your entry into high-performance imaging with ALVIUM® Technology for industrial applications. Equipped with the newest generation of sensors, these small and lightweight cameras deliver high image quality and frame rates at the best price-performance ratio. With its USB3 Vision compliant interface and industrial-grade hardware, it is your workhorse for different machine vision applications whether it is on a PC-based or an embedded system.
Benefits at a glance
Alvium 1800 U is a small and powerful industrial camera. Benefit from high image quality at a great price-performance ratio!
Various sensors: Select between CMOS sensors from ON Semi and Sony, including NIR (near infrared), for your individual applications.
Image reproduction quality: Get the best out of your lens-to-sensor combination by high-precision Alvium Sensor Alignment.
Intelligent power management: Design low-power or even battery-powered systems.
USB 3.1 Gen 1: Install our VIMBA Suite and get your first images easily.
Industrial-grade hardware: Design reliable applications by the Micro-B USB 3.1 Gen 1 connector with screw locks.
Features
- Resolutions: up to 24.6 megapixels
- Sensor: CMOS global and rolling shutter sensors from Sony and ON Semi
- Frame rates: up to 691 frames per second
- Housing options: Bare Board, Open Housing, or Closed Housing
- Lens mount options: C-Mount, CS-Mount, or S-Mount
- Image colors: Monochrome, color
- Spectral sensitivity: from ultraviolet (UV) to shortwave infrared (SWIR)
Do you have any questions? We are here to help you.
Liquid Lens Module
Allied Vision has teamed up withOptotune to enable customers to benefit from the advantages of liquid lens functions. Allied Vision’s compact and flexible Alvium GigE Vision (Alvium G1, Alvium G5) and USB3 Vision (Alvium U) cameras and liquid lenses from Optotune make a perfect team. Allied Vision cameras not only support the liquid lens functionality, but Allied Vision also completes the package with a Y-cable connecting the IO port of the camera with the lens and external power for the lens.
Benefits for the customer:
- Ability to dynamically adjust focus
- Rapid and precise imaging even at changing distances;
- Flexibility in applications where objects are moving quickly
- Remaining signals from the IO port are available to the M12 connector
- No need for external autofocus algorithm or external drivers to operate the lens
- Y-cable connecting the IO port of the camera with the lens and external power for the lens available
The right accessories for every application
The Alvium 1800 U camera series can be equipped with several accessories. Click the button below to see compatible lenses, interface and I/O connections, and tripod adapters.
- USB cables: Various lengths with screw lock
- Interface connections: 2-port and 4-port host adapter cards
- Lenses: Over 200 C-Mount and S-Mount lenses
- Tripod adapters: Adapts between metric and imperial threads
- Trigger and I/O cable: Cables with different length and shielding class
Perfectly connected – thanks to powerful software
Have you heard of Vimba X, our new fully GenICam-compliant SDK (software development kit)?
Thanks to our in-house software you can easily integrate our cameras into any system and manage them centrally.
Vimba X runs on Windows 10 and 11, Linux, Linux ARM, and macOS (all 64-bit).
With Vimba, you can acquire images and control your Allied Vision camera instantly, program complex vision applications or connect to third-party libraries.