Pleora Technologies Inc. pioneered the use of Gigabit Ethernet for real-time video connectivity and revolutionized industrial imaging. With this spirit of innovation, Pleora engineers networked video connectivity solutions for mission-critical applications. Working with its rich portfolio of video networking elements, Pleora partners with customers to tailor solutions to their individual needs, from definition to deployment, with full integration support.
Pleora Technologies Inc. is a leading supplier of Gigabit Ethernet (GigE) connectivity solutions for high-performance machine vision, broadcast video, and security/surveillance applications. The company was founded in 2000 by George Chamberlain and Alain Rivard. For more information about the founders, click here.
Pleora offers a broad portfolio of hardware and software products for streaming video and imaging data in real-time over standard GigE networks. It specializes in high-value, performance-oriented solutions.
In 2002, Pleora was first to market with GigE connectivity products for the machine vision and surveillance/security markets. The company's flagship family of iPORT™ IP Engines quickly attracted - and continues to win - the lion's share of GigE business in these sectors. The engines are used in such applications as industrial inspection, post and parcel sorting, high-end surveillance, homeland security, X-ray systems, and intelligent traffic monitoring.
In 2003, Pleora teamed with other industry leaders to form the GigE Vision Standard initiative. Now managed by the Automated Imaging Association (AIA), the initiative is defining an open GigE transport platform for vision applications.
In 2004, Pleora expanded into the Broadcast-over-IP sector with innovative products that exploit off-the-shelf GigE networking equipment to drive cost and complexity from video distribution networks aimed at the broadcast industry.
In 2006, Pleora introduced eBUS, a ground-breaking suite of PC drivers that set new benchmarks for flexibility and performance in GigE-based imaging and vision systems.
In 2007, Pleora was awarded the Frost & Sullivan Product Innovation Award. The Award recognizes Pleora's sustained efforts in Gigabit Ethernet product development and innovation, and acknowledges Pleora's role in creating a market for GigE technology for machine vision.
Pleora offers a complete portfolio of Gigabit Ethernet (GigE)-based video interface products for integration into high-performance vision systems that all work seamlessly together using the GigE Vision® and GenICam™ standards.
Learn more about how Pleora can help you optimize the design and performance of vision systems by exploring our product lines below.
The long-distance reach, flexible networking capabilities, and real-time performance of Pleora's networked video connectivity solutions improves the efficiency and reduces the cost of a wide range of intelligent traffic systems, including those for reading license plates, issuing tickets, sounding alarms, managing barriers, and identifying stolen/suspect vehicles.
By streaming imaging data over long-distance GigE networks, Pleora's solutions delivers the reach needed to move PCs away from roadsides. They can be located in more convenient locations, such as computer centers, and networked into centralized databases. This simplifies systems implementation, maintenance, and management.
Pleora's high-performance video networks support almost any Ethernet connectivity option, from one-to-one to many-to-many. Our solutions also make it easy to combine different camera types into one system, and to multicast the imaging data to multiple locations simultaneously.
The intelligent transportation system application shown below is an example of an automated tolling system that has been designed with networked video.
The use of a Pleora iPORT™ IP engine enables the cameras to stream video over Ethernet. The use of Ethernet, with its flexible and long cable lengths, allows for a system design where the PC can be removed from the gantry for more convenient access and maintenance.
Pleora's networked video connectivity solutions are based on a rich portfolio of hardware, software, and firmware that meets the stringent performance requirements of many different military video systems, including local situational awareness (LSA) systems for military vehicles.
Our solutions deliver advanced, real-time video networks that leverage the well-understood commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) Ethernet platform, handle high-throughput rates, and support different types of cameras and sensors. They allow long cable lengths and scale easily to accommodate the addition of new cameras, sensors, and processors.
Pleora's networking elements are fully compliant with the GigE Vision® and GenICam™ standards, and have been field-hardened in thousands of real-world deployments. They support many different network configurations, ranging from traditional point-to-point connections between a camera and mission computer to advanced configurations based on switched Ethernet client/server architectures.
Video from a mix of standard and specialty analog and digital cameras mounted on the vehicle is transported reliably with low, consistent latency over a GigE network to mission computers, servers, and displays inside the vehicle.
Almost every modality used in today's modern medical facilities - including MRI (magnetic resonance imaging), CT (computed tomography), US (ultrasound), and DR (digital radiology) - has begun to incorporate some form of real-time digital imaging.
In today's systems, most of the real-time functionality is achieved using point-to-point connections between a vision sensor in the modality and an image capture board in a PC, usually using specialized fiber cabling. The images often need to be viewed on more than one display in the operating room, or by staff in a control room, observation room, or training area. This is accomplished by configuring additional point-to-point connections using PCs, graphic extension boards, display controllers, and other pieces of specialized hardware.
These point-to-point connections are not only costly, they are complex, difficult to manage, and expensive to scale. Moreover, as sensors evolve to higher resolutions and faster frame rates, it will be increasingly difficult for these links to deliver the throughput needed for real-time image delivery.
Pleora's high-throughput networked video connectivity solutions leverage the flexible and scalable Ethernet platform and the GigE Vision® standard to drive down costs and improve clinical workflow. They bring together all the image sensors, PCs, processing units, and displays into a common and seamless framework that complements PACS (picture archiving and communication systems) systems based on the DICOM (Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine) standard.
By having all the elements connected to a network and speaking the same language, multiple streams of video from different types of image sensors can be transmitted easily to any combination of PCs, processing units, and displays. This approach simplifies the implementation of advanced multi-stream applications, and substantially reduces the need for costly specialized equipment and custom cabling.
Imaging data from the C-arm is converted to IP packets for reliable, real-time transport over a standard GigE network. The video processing unit in the control room corrects the images and streams them back over the network to displays in the operating room and other destinations, all with low, consistent latency.
Pleora's broadcast products allow broadcasters and system integrators to quickly and easily set up video-over-IP links between remote sites and central locations such as production facilities, command and control centers, and play-out facilities.
The remote sites - such as special venues, traffic cams, and security hotspots - rarely have direct access to fiber-based backbones. However, they can often be connected to backbones over IP services like a 100 Mb/s Fast Ethernet link.
In situations like this, a small, cost-effective ASI-to-IP gateway like Pleora's EtherCast™ ASI-Pro gateway is ideal for the remote site. At the first connection, the ASI-Pro gateway converts the data in the ASI stream, usually a few MPEG-encoded SD or HD video channels, to IP packets for transport. At the other end of the link, the signal is either converted back to ASI by a second ASI-Pro unit, or left as is for processing by IP equipment.
The ASI-Pro gateway can be used with low-cost wireless IP transmission systems. These systems are a relatively inexpensive way to set up point-to-point IP connections between two sites. The wireless option is often easier, faster, and cheaper to set up than a wired link. It all depends on the location and the requirements of the project.
For OEM applications, Pleora's EtherCast TS-Pro IP engine supports direct MPEG-TS-to-IP connectivity.
In the example broadcast application below, a central weather monitoring organization receives cost-effective, real-time IP video feeds from remote cameras placed strategically throughout its broad coverage area.
IP gateway delivering real-time Internet Protocol (IP) video feeds from remote cameras.
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