Soliton Technologies

Soliton is an Indian technology company that offers research, development and consulting services in the areas of Test & Measurement automation, Machine Vision, and Embedded Systems. It is India's first and largest manufacturer of smart cameras and machine vision components. It was founded in 1998 by Dr Ganesh Devaraj and is headquartered in the city of Bengaluru. It has its other office locations in Coimbatore, Wisconsin, Texas and California. It is the main sponsor and the core member of Center Of Relevance and Excellence (CORE) in Machine Vision, Chennai.
History
Soliton was founded in 1998 by Dr Ganesh Devaraj. The inspiration to start Soliton apparently came when he read the book ‘Built to Last’, while working as a scientist at VI Engineering, Michigan, after obtaining a doctorate in Theoretical Physics from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Soliton started as an Alliance Member of National Instruments, in the United States. In 2004, Soliton started a product division for manufacturing machine vision cameras that could address the need in the manufacturing industry for sophisticated quality control tools. Soliton has since extended its services from offering solutions for stated automation needs, to offering consulting and R&D services to build machine vision and automation products.
Products & Services
Soliton develops LabVIEW and TestStand based automation solutions.
Soliton products include PRIM (Print Color Registration Control System) to detect newspaper offset, CASH to detect counterfeit currency, Spot-IT, India's first smart camera, NEO, India's first user configurable smart camera, High speed pencil Inspection system, etc.
NUERA Machine Vision Smart Camera (In Production)
NUERA is a machine vision smart camera with quad-core ARM processor which can run image processing algorithms & user application logic. It can be used for Pharma Packaging Inspection (1D, 2D barcode), OCR/OCV, Direct part Marking Inspection.
NEO Machine Vision Smart Camera
Neo is the first user configurable smart camera fully designed in India. It has a built-in image sensor and processor with integrated LED lights. This camera is configurable for a range of machine vision based poka-yoke applications. It uses Soliton Vision library which consists of machine vision algorithms optimized for its processor architecture. NEO was showcased in the TI Developer's Conference 2008. At that point of time, Soliton Technologies was the only Indian company to present in TI Developer's Conference.
Spotit V2 Machine Vision Smart Camera
SpotIt Machine Vision Smart Camera
Firewire Machine Vision Camera

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