ibaCapture
Record and Analyze Videos and Measurement Data Synchronously
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The ibaCapture system enables the simultaneous recording of video streams and process data, providing a comprehensive and synchronized view of industrial operations. Designed to work in tandem with ibaPDA, it continuously captures visual content from cameras or HMIs alongside high-resolution measurement signals, ensuring perfect time correlation.
By providing time-accurate alignment between process data and visual information, this functionality unlocks a deeper understanding of cause-and-effect relationships within complex industrial systems.
Key capabilities
- Record video and process signals in perfect time sync using a shared time base from ibaPDA.
- Trigger recordings based on process events to capture critical moments with pre-defined start/stop criteria.
- Integrate up to 64 video sources including analog, IP, GigE Vision®, and virtual cameras.
- Visualize data and video side-by-side in ibaAnalyzer for detailed post-event analysis.
- Store important sequences in protected memory areas for documentation or compliance.
- Live display of camera feeds with flexible layouts, supporting both monitoring and event replay.
Typical use cases
- Detecting root causes of production failures by correlating signal anomalies with visual cues.
- Monitoring machine areas that are inaccessible or hazardous using remote video feeds.
- Documenting operator actions and HMI activity for compliance or training.
- Capturing visual evidence during critical process deviations or alarms.
- Using live video feeds to supplement control room operations in large plants.
By integrating real-time video with high-resolution measurement data, ibaCapture significantly enhances diagnostic depth and operational insight.
ibaCapture allows users to view video streams alongside recorded measurement data, fully synchronized to the millisecond. This feature delivers a powerful visualization environment where operators and engineers can analyze process data trends in parallel with real-time or historical video footage. Whether during live monitoring or offline analysis in ibaAnalyzer, the ability to correlate visual and signal-based information makes troubleshooting faster and more intuitive.
Designed for precision, the system ensures that video frames correspond exactly to process signal timestamps, enabling frame-by-frame inspection of operational events.
Key capabilities
- Synchronous display of video and process data in ibaAnalyzer with sample-accurate alignment.
- Frame-by-frame video navigation linked to the trend graph’s timeline marker.
- Live and historical video view using ibaPDA Client, ibaQPanel, or ibaCapture Manager.
- Flexible playback speed for slow-motion or fast-forward viewing of process sequences.
- Scenario Player for automated layout switching, selecting relevant camera views based on events.
- Support for embedded video in measurement files for distributed analysis.
These visualization capabilities dramatically improve clarity in fault analysis and documentation, especially when sensor data alone cannot provide the full context.
Typical use cases
- Pinpointing the exact moment a machine malfunctioned by evaluating synchronized video and signal traces.
- Analyzing operator interactions and HMI behavior during abnormal process states.
- Documenting production anomalies for audit trails and quality assurance reports.
- Training of maintenance staff using real event footage tied to signal history.
- Review multi-camera footage simultaneously to understand complex, distributed failures.
By merging visual context with time-aligned measurement data, ibaCapture transforms how process behavior is interpreted and understood.
ibaCapture enables high-frame-rate video recording that is precisely synchronized with process data, making it ideal for analyzing rapid, complex operations in industrial environments. By integrating high-speed GigE Vision® cameras and leveraging powerful server hardware, the system captures visual data at frame rates of up to 1440 fps, providing unmatched insight into fast-moving events that are otherwise invisible to the human eye.
This advanced video acquisition is seamlessly linked with process signals recorded by ibaPDA, ensuring full temporal correlation for accurate analysis and troubleshooting.
Key capabilities
- Record high-speed video at up to 1440 frames per second with supported GigE Vision® cameras
- Synchronize video and process data using ibaPDA integration
- Configure trigger events to capture only the most relevant moments
- Store and manage video streams efficiently with ring buffer and protected storage options
- Optimize performance with dedicated 10GigE interfaces and GPU-accelerated encoding
- Analyze with frame-by-frame playback in ibaAnalyzer for detailed root-cause investigations
These capabilities empower users to visualize critical process steps, such as material deformation, machine tool behavior, or high-speed handling.
Typical use cases
- Monitoring rapid events in rolling mills or press lines
- Capturing precise tool interactions in CNC machining
- Diagnosing failure mechanisms in high-speed conveyors or packaging lines
- Supporting research and development with slow-motion analysis
With high-speed video acquisition, ibaCapture delivers a deeper understanding of fast processes, driving quality, reliability, and operational excellence.
With ibaCapture, video recording can be controlled using real-time process data from ibaPDA. This ensures that video sequences are captured exactly when relevant events occur, automatically and without manual intervention. Whether documenting anomalies, operator actions, or critical transitions, recordings start and stop based on defined signal conditions, enabling targeted, efficient, and insightful video logging.
This event-driven approach allows you to focus on what matters.
Key capabilities
- Trigger video recording automatically based on process events or signal thresholds
- Define start/stop logic for each camera using any available ibaPDA signal
- Capture and store still images using dedicated “image triggers”
- Integrate signal-based control of display layouts with Scenario Player
- Synchronize video and data for seamless analysis in ibaAnalyzer
By linking recording activity to your automation environment, ibaCapture ensures relevant moments are captured with full process context—improving traceability.
Typical use cases
- Recording only when product quality deviations are detected
- Capturing video during machine alarms or emergency stops
- Monitoring material transfer points when sensors detect irregularities
- Documenting interventions by operators or maintenance events
- Automatically collecting compliance-relevant footage during defined process steps
This feature ensures that every critical moment is recorded, guided by your process, not by guesswork.
ibaCapture enables seamless integration of thermal camera data into the iba system for synchronized process monitoring and analysis. In addition to recording false-color thermal images, the functionality extracts temperature values from user-defined measurement areas and makes them available as real-time analog signals in ibaPDA. This allows thermal information to be evaluated alongside all other process and plant data, providing a comprehensive view of operating conditions.
By combining thermal images with synchronized process values, engineers can quickly identify temperature-related events and analyze them in their full operational context.
Key capabilities
- Capture false-color thermal images and extracts temperature values from configurable measurement areas.
- Transfer temperature data as real-time analog signals to ibaPDA for synchronized acquisition and visualization.
- Control thermal camera functions such as focus and shutter directly using ibaPDA signals.
- Synchronize thermal data with process, machine, and plant signals for comprehensive event analysis.
- Support offline evaluation using ibaAnalyzer for detailed post-process investigations.
The synchronized acquisition of thermal and process data provides complete visibility into temperature-related events, making analysis faster and more reliable.
Typical use cases
- Investigate hotspots and thermal anomalies by correlating temperature values with process events.
- Record synchronized thermal and process data during commissioning, testing, and production.
- Perform root cause analysis of temperature-related issues using offline analysis tools.
- Document thermal process data for quality assurance and engineering investigations.
By integrating thermal imaging directly into the iba data acquisition environment, users gain synchronized, actionable temperature information that enhances process transparency and enables efficient analysis of thermal events.
