Embedded Vision Insights: December 3, 2013 Edition

Dear Colleague,

Back in early July, I told you about Find A Supplier, an online resource provided by the Alliance that connects you with relevant member companies. If you're interested in a particular embedded vision technology, product or service but don't already know which Alliance members provide it, send the Alliance an email via the Find A Supplier page form. Alliance staff members will review and forward it on to relevant company representatives in a timely manner, who will follow up with you directly.

Recently, the Alliance launched another website tool that encompasses the various "players" in the embedded vision industry, this time in an intuitive graphical manner. The Industry Map represents a "system" view of vision technology and applications, and is constructed in a hierarchical format. The top level of the Map includes information on:

• The Embedded Vision Alliance
• The ecosystem, including Alliance member companies and industry standards
• Market data
• Applications
• Vision technology
• Products and services

The Alliance's objectives in developing the Industry Map are:

• To educate engineers, press and analysts about embedded vision
• To bring together information in an interactive, visual, searchable format
• To catalogue the various elements needed to build vision systems and applications
• To promote discussion and ideas on how to make the Industry Map more valuable

This resource is in the form of an "Idea Map," and the approach allows members and users to suggest extensions and other alterations, thereby allowing the map to evolve in step with industry evolution. The Map is in Adobe Flash format and can be either viewed directly from its webpage using a browser or downloaded and accessed standalone. It has been verified with the latest versions of Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, and Safari.

We hope you find the Industry Map valuable, and we appreciate your feedback on it. Thanks as always for your support of the Embedded Vision Alliance, and for your interest in and contributions to embedded vision technologies, products and applications. I welcome your emailed suggestions on what the Alliance can do better, as well as what else the Alliance can do, to better service your needs.

Brian Dipert
Editor-In-Chief, Embedded Vision Alliance

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