Pepperl+Fuchs VOC Industrial Event Camera

Event-driven image and video recording for fault analysis, remote diagnosis and process documentation.

The Pepperl+Fuchs VOC Industrial Event Camera provides visual context around faults, process interruptions and other defined industrial events. Its recordings are designed to help identify what happened during events such as emergency shutdowns or processing errors, including in areas that are difficult to access.

The camera continuously retains recent video in an integrated circular buffer. When a defined event occurs, the relevant sequence can be stored for review, allowing the conditions leading up to the event and the subsequent process state to be examined together.

This event-oriented approach focuses analysis on relevant situations rather than requiring continuous recordings to be searched manually. Recorded sequences can be assigned to individual events and used for immediate investigation or retained as part of longer-term process documentation.

Typical applications include automated storage and retrieval, material handling, palletising and manufacturing processes, particularly where faults are intermittent, difficult to reproduce or occur outside an operator’s normal line of sight.

By providing visual evidence of process events, the VOC can support fault analysis, remote diagnosis and process optimisation, helping engineering and maintenance teams better understand recurring issues and document relevant operating conditions.

Key Features

• Event identification: Recordings can include timestamps, camera identification and individual text information to help correlate captured footage with specific process events or error conditions.
• Multiple trigger methods: Events can be triggered via digital input, UDP, web interface or REST API, with Advanced and Performance versions adding motion, brightness change, acceleration and trigger forwarding from another camera. Motion detection can also be limited to a selected area within the image.
• System integration: REST API support allows camera information to be read and commands to be executed from external systems, while WebRTC and RTSP provide live-stream integration for browser, HMI and control applications.
• Remote data access: Stored recordings can be accessed through the web interface, REST API or FTP to support remote investigation and process documentation.
• Adjustable image monitoring: Automatic and software-adjustable focus allow the monitored area to be set for the application, with digital zoom available on Advanced and Performance models.
• Data protection controls: Advanced and Performance models can hide defined image areas and deactivate the ring buffer, while Performance adds automatic face blurring for stored recordings.
• Performance-level detection: The Performance version adds human recognition and QR code reading where additional automated detection or identification is required.

Specifications

Support

Able Instruments provide application advice, product selection and integration support for Pepperl+Fuchs VOC Industrial Event Camera applications.

• Application guidance: Support with defining the process event, fault or operating condition that needs to be captured
• Model selection: Help selecting the Standard, Advanced or Performance version based on the required triggering, monitoring and privacy functions
• Integration support: Guidance on trigger methods and connection to existing machine, HMI or IT systems
• Technical support: Pre-sales advice on connection, mounting and application requirements

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