Pilz Automation Safety has developed SafetyEYE, a camera system for three-dimensional safety monitoring, in conjunction with DaimlerChrysler. SafetyEYE places a customized, three-dimensional protective cocoon around a danger zone with a single system, which, according to Pilz, has the potential to replace a multitude of two-dimensional sensors currently in use today. It protects, controls and monitors, and detection zones can be configured flexibly and quickly on a PC.The overall system is made up of three components: the sensing device, a high-performance computer and a programmable safety and control system. The sensing device consists of three highly dynamic cameras that provide the image data from the zone being monitored.Pilz also claims that SafetyEYE is the basis for a technology that safely detects objects in a three-dimensional zone and alters a robot or a machine's movement to prevent accidents. It is suitable for the widest range of industries and applications: from manufacturing operations to the tire and packaging industries, to high-bay racking systems and automatic car parks.SafetyEYE also can perform standard control functions as well as monitor several independent detection zones. Not only does that lower the cost, it also reduces the number of components to a minimum. The ability to connect directly to bus systems such as SafetyBUS p and, in future SafetyNET p, brings further savings in terms of material and installation. "Camera-based image processing will revolutionize optical sensor technology, and not only in the industrial sector," says Pilz Managing Partner Renate Pilz. "We are convinced that the SafetyEYE innovation faces an excellent future in the security sector, too."
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