Our Customer Bosch
Bosch chose CambridgeIC products for sensing rotary position inside their MIC 7000i, MIC 9000i and Autodome 7000i Pan and Tilt surveillance cameras.
Bosch develops surveillance cameras including the MIC7000i series pictured below. This has motorised pan and tilt angles, to point the camera in any direction.
Bosch's relationship with CambridgeIC began in 2012, when Bosch was searching for a robust, reliable and cost effective solution for measuring the MIC7000 product's pan and tilt angles. CambridgeIC's Type 6 Precision Through Hole sensors had recently been launched. Bosch engineers immediately recognised how well suited CambridgeIC's technology was to their application:
- Sensors are built with a conventional PCB process. CambridgeIC provided Bosch with sensor PCB designs, so that Bosch could have them manufactured using its existing supply chain for PCBs.
- The matching Type 6 Rotary Targets were C shaped, significantly simplying assembly of the camera, because the target could be mounted from the side, with cables already running along the rotation axis.
- A single CAM204 IC processes two precision sensors, so only one IC is required for measuring both pan and tilt axes.
Since 2012 Bosch has used CambridgeIC products for two further product platforms. CambridgeIC supported Bosch's engineers at each step:
- Advice on how to obtain the best possible perfomance at the lowest possible cost
- Support for Bosch embedded software engineers on how to best operate the CambridgeIC processor IC
- Reviewing elecronic schematics to help ensure CambridgeIC processor ICs were wired to external circuitry correctly
- Mechanical integration advice
- Custom sensors and targets to best fit the space envelope available inside Bosch's products