Month: May 2020

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BitFlow Signs Strategic Distribution Partnership with Tietech to Expand Presence in Japan

WOBURN, MA, MAY 27, 2020 — BitFlow, a global leader in frame grabbers powering machine vision systems, today announced it has signed a new distribution agreement with ITANZI, a core company of Tietech Co., Ltd, headquartered in Nagoya, Aichi, Japan. With this agreement, BitFlow and Tietech are ideally positioned to meet the growing demand in the Japanese market for high-speed machine vision components required for the Industry 4.0 era. Working together, both companies are poised to capture significant market share by bringing industry-leading vision technology to Japan’s massive industrial base.

Under its distribution partnership with BitFlow, Tietech is now the primary distributor of BitFlow grabbers and accessories in Japan, and is also providing system integration and factory automation services using BitFlow products. In addition, Tietech will provide localized technical support, and has exclusive rights to certain BitFlow products in Japan.

“We at Tietech are very pleased to be entering into this new chapter together with BitFlow. Their products will blend perfectly into our ITANZI portfolio, and we are looking forward to expanding into the Japanese machine vision market together,” said Mr. Masahito Murase, Company Chairman of ITANZI.

Donal Waide, Director of Sales for BitFlow, stated, “This is an exciting time for BitFlow and a chance to consolidate our position in the Japanese market. BitFlow has been present in the Japanese machine vision market for over 15 years and this new partnership will enable us to demonstrate our world class products at the highest level.”

ITANZI is the machine vision brand of Tietech Co., Ltd, a part of the Techno Horizon Holdings group.

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BitFlow Introduces SDK for NVIDIA Jetson AGX Xavier Development Kit

Jetson with a Claxon

BitFlow has released a Linux AArch64 (64-bit ARM) SDK that enables seamless integration of BitFlow frame grabbers with the NVIDIA Jetson AGX Xavier Development Kit. 

Donal Waide, Director of Sales for BitFlow, states, “Many of our customers are already using GPU solutions such as NVIDIA for image processing so adding this option to the already large BitFlow suite of adapters was a natural progression for the company. BitFlow has been supporting Linux for several years across a variety of flavors.”

Added Waide, “BitFlow was one of the first frame grabber companies to support NVIDIA’s GPUDirect for Video technology. BitFlow and NVIDIA have worked together for a number of years already.” 

With the advent of the new machine vision standard CXP 2.0 where data rates are now up to 50 Gb/S, customers are looking to process more and more data and in shorter timeframes. For this, a GPU can typically perform these tasks much more effectively than a CPU. Even with slower data rates such as Camera Link’s (up to 850 MB/S) the ability to quickly process more complex algorithms is equally important. 

The NVIDIA Jetson AGX Xavier is the first computer designed specifically for autonomous machines. It has six Engines onboard for accelerated sensors data processing and running autonomous machines software, and offers the performance and power efficiency for fully autonomous machines.