TI announces low power IP camera

[Posted October 29, 2009 by cook]

Texas Instruments has announced a new low power IP camera that includes a complete Linux application software reference design package. "Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) today announced a new Internet Protocol (IP) camera reference design that provides low power, high definition (HD) video processing for the video surveillance market. The DM368IPNC-MT5 IP camera reference design with H.264 main profile 1080p at 30 frames per second (fps) offers industry-leading compression in a full HD solution, with the complete camera utilizing only three Watts."

TI announces low power IP camera

Posted Oct 29, 2009 20:10 UTC (Thu) by ncm (guest, #165) [Link] (5 responses)

This information will be more useful to most readers of LWN when the DM368IPNC-MT5 is designed into some gadget that can be bought off the shelf somewhere. Is anybody reading this designing it into a gadget, retail or otherwise? Please speak up.

TI announces low power IP camera

Posted Oct 29, 2009 21:24 UTC (Thu) by gmaxwell (guest, #30048) [Link] (1 responses)

Not DM368IPNC-MT5, but Elphel's products are likely to be even more interesting to many people here (http://www3.elphel.com/)

likely to be even more interesting ...

Posted Oct 30, 2009 14:47 UTC (Fri) by AndreyFilippov (guest, #61696) [Link]

I really hope our products are more interesting as while providing top performance they are designed by developers for developers. All the code we provide is under GNU GPLv3, free software (and we do not use non-free) that is is not designed by us is downloaded (in source form of course) by the installation script and compiled/built on user computer. It is not just (as posted on http://www.appropho.com/NewWeb/Product_DM368MT5_Product.p... ):
"1. Open Source package:
- Every software which is gotten from open source
- MontaVista Linux
2. Copyrighted package:..."

So they think that "Open Source" material is not copyrighted :-)

And we also believe that performance and features of our products is above those of the considered camera. Both in current products that made billions of useful images already and the new product under development - http://blogs.elphel.com/category/andrey/10373/

Andrey

TI announces low power IP camera

Posted Oct 30, 2009 12:57 UTC (Fri) by dilinger (subscriber, #2867) [Link] (2 responses)

Note that it currently appears to cost $1000 USD. Otherwise, it'd be neat to build it into
some other gadget!

TI announces low power IP camera

Posted Oct 30, 2009 16:04 UTC (Fri) by bronson (subscriber, #4806) [Link] (1 responses)

That's for the dev kit. Those are typically 5-10X the cost of the final product. Once this part is designed into real products, you'll be able to buy it for a more reasonable cost.

TI announces low power IP camera

Posted Oct 30, 2009 16:12 UTC (Fri) by bronson (subscriber, #4806) [Link]

(I didn't mean to imply it would end up costing $100... But $200-$300 for inexpensive camera kits seems plausible)

TI announces low power IP camera

Posted Oct 30, 2009 8:26 UTC (Fri) by henriksorensen (guest, #6313) [Link] (3 responses)

Fascinating somehow... Not too long ago there was a thread on LKML where a x-264 developer pointed out a scheduler problem, and soon after the fix, new and improved products starts to appear!
- Henrik

TI announces low power IP camera

Posted Oct 30, 2009 21:00 UTC (Fri) by wmf (guest, #33791) [Link] (2 responses)

This has nothing to do with x264; the encoding is done with a DSP or ASIC.

TI announces low power IP camera

Posted Oct 31, 2009 13:59 UTC (Sat) by jzbiciak (guest, #5246) [Link] (1 responses)

It looks like a DaVinci based product, in which case the H.264 is likely running on the C64+ DSP.

TI announces low power IP camera

Posted Oct 31, 2009 14:03 UTC (Sat) by jzbiciak (guest, #5246) [Link]

Errr... replying to myself: If it's DaVinci-HD, it's got the DSP as well as some dedicated video acceleration too. If that's the case, that also opens up the DSP to do video analytics or other such fun things.

My office neighbor at work has told me a little about some of the neat stuff they can run on the DSP separately of video encoding.

TI announces low power IP camera

Posted Oct 30, 2009 17:28 UTC (Fri) by ncm (guest, #165) [Link] (1 responses)

Since I got this HUE camera remaindered for $2, I've found it hard to spend
more than that on a webcam. But it only just barely works.

TI announces low power IP camera

Posted Oct 30, 2009 18:03 UTC (Fri) by clugstj (subscriber, #4020) [Link]

It's a 1080p camera, it is really out of the $2 webcam league.