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Smart Vision Lights is a leading USA Based designer and manufacturer of high-brightness LED lights for industrial applications, including machine vision. Their LED lights come with built-in drivers, offering constant or strobed operation, reduced wiring requirements and easy installation. All models are tested in an IEC-62471 light safety compliance laboratory, guaranteeing conformity and compliance for customer needs. Known for their high-quality innovative solutions, SVL continues to be a leader in the Machine Vision Market. The company is committed to delivering the most effective lighting solutions with world-class products and service.

Smart Vision is an ISO 9001:2015 compliant manufacturer, making them a top supplier of Machine Vision Lights for use in OEM Inspection, Autonomous Guidance, Identification and Artificial Intelligence Imaging Applications. In collaboration with Machine Vision Direct, Smart Vision Lights can provide custom OEM solutions for projects where catalogued products do not satisfy customer needs. SVL Standard Products are built to order and have a lead time of 3 Days. Products ship factory direct from Norton Shores, Michigan, so order today or contact us for more information on the industry leading Smart Vision Lights.

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Ai is uniquely qualified to solve your lighting problems. Simply stated, we’re here to reduce or eliminate issues you may encounter when you implement a factory automation lighting solution. Lighting is our passion. Our staff understands lighting and can help you select the right products for your application. For specialized needs we have a team of engineers and manufacturing professionals ready to provide tailored lighting solutions.

Shop Advanced Illumination Backlights from Advanced Illumination Machine Vision Lighting

Backlighting provides an area of uniform illumination, oriented behind the object of interest, primarily for creating a part silhouette of instant contrast between dark and light. It is most useful for edge detection, part location/orientation or presence/absence, hole detection and object gauging. Linear Backlights can also be deployed behind a moving web of material when used in conjunction with line scan cameras, when intensities are enough to freeze motion.

Shop Advanced Illumination Bar Lights from Advanced Illumination Machine Vision Lighting

Bar Lights, also known as Linear Array Lights, offer both bright field and dark field illumination, depending on angle of incidence with respect to the object of interest. Because of the variety of lengths available, bar lights are useful for large area illumination when used in opposing pairs or in a picture frame mounting orientation. Linear Array Lights can also be used in replacement of Spot or Ring Lights when greater intensity is required.

Shop Advanced Illumination Coaxial Lights from Advanced Illumination Machine Vision Lighting

Coaxial Lights provide a type of diffuse illumination, generated from an internal source. The light is then deflected downward onto the imaging plane via a 50% beamsplitter, which also allows light from the object to be collected by the camera above. Coaxial Lights are ideal for imaging highly reflective objects or where the area of inspection is obscured by shadows from its surroundings. The result of this illumination type is to apply a sheet of light to the object from above and collect the result of how the light is reflected, scattered or absorbed.

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Machine vision dome lights provide diffuse lighting, also known as “cloudy-day illumination”. Reflected light provides non-directional, soft illumination that is free of shadowing. This effect is well suited for inspecting highly specular, and curved objects, but at close working distances. The light I.D. needs to be approximately 50% oversized compared with the object size to be illuminated. Flat Diffuse Lights are often referred to as “Flat Domes” because of the similar performance characteristics they share with classic domed illuminators. If sufficiently oversized compared with the object of interest, flat diffuse lights can provide an adequate “Cloudy Day” lighting effect at a larger range of working distances than domes.

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LED Line Lights, as opposed to linear array bar lights, employ a secondary lens to focus the light into a narrow beam, typically for short to intermediate working distances, and are mostly used in conjunction with line scan cameras. Line lights are typically mounted in a medium to high angle bright field orientation, but may also be mounted in medium angle dark field. As with any line scan application involving moving surfaces, Line Lights must have sufficient intensity to freeze motion.

Shop Advanced Illumination Dark Field Ring Lights from Advanced Illumination Machine Vision Lighting

Dark Field Lights provide illumination that is projected at a shallow angle to the imaging surface, 45 degrees or less. Typical applications include reflective flat surface defect or edge detection, where the majority of the light may reflect away from the camera on the flat, featureless surface but defects may scatter the light to the camera, creating feature appropriate contrast. Dark Field Lights can be dedicated ring lights, or any general bar or spot light oriented at low angles of incidence, depending on defect orientation. Very low angle dark field ring lights must be deployed at close working distances to be effective.

Shop Advanced Illumination Bright Field Ring Lights from Advanced Illumination Machine Vision Lighting

Bright Field Lights provide illumination directly onto an object, at angles of incidence above 45 degrees from horizontal, creating distinct shadows or general purpose illumination depending on subjects features.. This type of lighting is effective when used on objects requiring high degrees of contrast, but may create unwanted specular reflections when directed at shiny or reflective materials because of the high angle of incidence. Working distances can be short to very long.

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Light controller requirements vary considerably by application. Ai offers several distinct drive levels to satisfy a range of applications and price points. Variants range from a no controller voltage drive option to integrated or cable inline drivers through full flexibility and power external box versions.

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Ai is uniquely qualified to solve your lighting problems. Simply stated, we’re here to reduce or eliminate issues you may encounter when you implement a factory automation lighting solution. Lighting is our passion. Our staff understands lighting and can help you select the right products for your application. For specialized needs we have a team of engineers and manufacturing professionals ready to provide tailored lighting solutions.

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How long does it take for Advanced Illumination Lights to ship?

Virtually all Advanced Illumination units are made to order and ship within 0-2 Weeks. For the most accurate lead time, we recommend Contacting Us

Does Machine Vision Direct offer Advanced Illumination discounts?

Machine Vision Direct is proud to offer discounts for OEM's, Integrators, Educational Institutions, and volume purchases. For a discounted quote, please Contact Us

Does Machine Vision Direct accept purchase orders?

Yes, Machine Vision Direct accepts Purchase Orders (PO's), Purchase Order can be sent to Orders@MachineVisionDirect.com

Where Do Advanced Illumination Lights ship from?

Advanced Illumination products ship direct from Advanced Illumination in Rochester, Vermont. Lights are manufactured in the United States of America

What Geography does Machine Vision Direct ship to?

Machine Vision Direct ships Worldwide. If outside the US, we encourage you to contact us in order to receive an accurate shipping quote.

Which forms of payment does Machine Vision Direct accept?

Machine Vision Direct Accepts All Major Credit Cards as well as Net 30 Payment Terms. To Setup a Net 30 account, please contact Support@MachineVisionDirect.com

Where is Machine Vision Direct located?

Machine Vision Direct is centrally located in the Chicago Suburbs.

About Advanced Illumination

Machine Vision Lighting

Advanced Illumination Mission:

Ai is uniquely qualified to solve your lighting problems. Simply stated, we’re here to reduce or eliminate issues you may encounter when you implement a factory automation lighting solution. Lighting is our passion. Our staff understands lighting and can help you select the right products for your application. For specialized needs we have a team of engineers and manufacturing professionals ready to provide tailored lighting solutions.

The Team:
We bring an experienced team of engineers to every project with capabilities that include end to end product design, rapid prototyping, and precision testing. We perform all assembly in our manufacturing facility in Rochester, Vermont with the benefit of engineering oversight and ISO certified standards for quality.




Innovation: 

Ai has set the pace in machine vision lighting with first to market innovations: 
  • We developed Evenlite™ Technology, a proprietary structured lighting system; powered LEDs are aimed at a targeting fixture and then affixed into position. Electrical wiring completes the lighting sub-assembly. 
  • We designed multi-channel, white light sources utilizing red, green and blue LEDs before the advent of white light LEDs. 
  • The first company to “Overdrive” LEDs in strobed mode; with active duty cycle control, very short, high current pulses are utilized to drive an LED with up to 50X the nominal steady-state current. 
  • The originator of independently controllable, multi-channel drive electronics. 
  • Our proprietary SignaTech® (Signature Technology); a microprocessor-based controller reads a SignaTech® memory chip, specifically programmed for each illuminator, in order to establish maximum operating parameters. The memory chip, located in the light-head cable, is preprogrammed with details about the illuminator’s circuit design as well as specific LED characteristics. 
  • First to develop expandable lighting; where housings, circuit boards and control electronics are designed as a flexible system whereby the products can be tailored quickly to a wide range of lengths and sizes.