With the advent of the intelligent era, technology is rapidly iterating in multiple fields such as the Internet of Things, autonomous driving, and industrial vision. This also brings new challenges to the increasingly complex sensor and image transmission collaboration within various application systems. MIPI cameras, with their advantages of high speed, large data transmission capacity, low power consumption, and simple adaptation, can effectively address these challenges.

MIPI Camera (4-Lane CSI-2)

Recently, Meecoe Electronic Technology Co., Ltd. (Infraroadtech), leveraging its full-stack technical capabilities and extensive mass production experience in high-quality imaging for intelligent driving, combined with the company’s industry advantages in intelligent driving and perception imaging, has innovatively launched the industry’s first high-resolution MIPI camera, the MCI081-IMX577C-MIPI module, applicable to machine vision, industrial inspection, assisted driving, and aerospace scenarios.

The MIPI camera module, developed in-house by Infraroadtech, utilizes a SONY 12MP IMX577 image sensor, a 4-lane MIPI CSI-2 interface, and is compatible with 15/22-pin FPC flexible cables. It outputs uncompressed RAW data, effectively addressing the need for cameras to capture high-quality, high-resolution, uncompressed images in complex and varied scenes.

The Infraroadtech MIPI camera features a SONY IMX577 image sensor with a 1/2.3-inch sensor size and 1.55µm pixel size. Combined with Jetson Orin’s Onboard ISP module, it delivers high-speed, high-resolution, and high-sensitivity images. This camera can effortlessly capture scenes that were previously difficult to shoot, such as consistently capturing detailed information with high precision during high-speed movement and achieving low-noise, high-sensitivity shooting in low-light environments.

This outstanding Infraroadtech MIPI camera can be widely used in machine vision, industrial inspection, assisted driving, and aviation fields. It effectively addresses the need for cameras to acquire uncompressed, high-quality, high signal-to-noise ratio images in complex and ever-changing scenes, and enables flexible and efficient large-volume data transmission between cameras in multiple modes. Currently, Infraroadtech offers this camera module in models with different fields of view, apertures, and focal lengths, and also provides customized services based on customer needs. The MIPI camera has overall dimensions of only 20x35x25mm and weighs approximately 50g, making it very compact and easy to install.

Application of the MIPI Camera Development Kit Based on NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano

As a partner of NVIDIA Elite Jetson, Infraroadtech leverages NVIDIA Jetson’s ISP tuning technology to ensure deep integration of Infraroadtech cameras with the Jetson platform. The newly launched MIPI camera module is a 12MP SONY IMX577 camera compatible with the NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano. Furthermore, Infraroadtech’s MIPI camera modules will also support the full range of official Jetson Orin development kits.

The Jetson Orin Nano development kit, as a new benchmark for entry-level edge AI and robotics, boasts exceptional computing power, enabling developers to run any type of modern AI model and improve project completion efficiency. This kit can support two MIPI cameras simultaneously and offers advantages in high performance, low power consumption, and small size.

Infraroadtech‘s launch of this MIPI camera module development kit based on the NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano aims to provide AI practitioners, development enthusiasts, and ecosystem partners across various industries with a platform for quickly building MIPI cameras. Leveraging the versatility and flexibility of the Jetson Orin Nano development kit, it allows users to easily develop various applications tailored to their needs for learning and research.

This development kit can meet the visual requirements for complex scene imaging and high-resolution images in applications such as machine vision and industrial inspection. For example, in drone applications, its high-resolution image rendering capabilities, combined with image analysis and inference computing power, can ensure the drone’s detection, perception, and safe flight in various environments; in industrial inspection applications, it can monitor equipment operating status, worker operation, etc., promptly detect and handle equipment failures, worker violations, and other issues, thereby improving production efficiency and safety.