poLight ASA and Image Quality Labs (IQL) announced the development of an M12-based Raspberry Pi TLens Studio evaluation and development platform, utilizing the new line of TLens®? off-the-shelf (OTS) focusing camera lens. This platform enables machine vision design engineers to quickly and easily evaluate high speed, constant field-of-view focusing functionality on their existing embedded computing platforms. Initially available in a 7.5mm focal length, the prototype will be available for private viewing in the poLight suite at CES (6-9 January) and in both the poLight (#6317) and Image Quality Labs (#6716) booths at SPIE (20-23 January).
To schedule a CES viewing, contact. poLight ASA and Image Quality Labs announced the development of an M 12-based Raspberry Pi TLens?? Studio evaluation and development platform.
utilizing the new line of TLs®? off-the- shelf (OTS) focusing camera lenses. This platform enables machine Vision design engineers to quickly and easily evaluating high speed, constant field- of-view focusing functionality on their current embedded computing platforms. Historically, industrial machine vision OEMs have been forced to rely on fixed focus cameras with a small aperture to achieve sufficient depth of focus, hindering advanced imaging for factory and warehouse automation, barcode scanners and embedded cameras.
Delivering a small, cost-competitive OTS solution with constant field-of-view focus which is based on a standard sensor platform enables industrial machine vision OEMs to quickly ramp their advanced technology. The M12-based Raspberry PiTLens®? Studio platform leverages poLight's ultra-fast (~1ms), ultra-low power-consuming (~1mW) TLens®?, enabling design engineers to rapidly set and change object/focal distances to accommodate different scenarios.
The OTS lenses will be available at 6mm, 7.5mm, 13mm and 19mm focal lengths, in production volume by First Quarter 2026. The IQL TLens®? RPi 5 Evaluation Kit is a new development platform purpose-built to help engineers rapidly evaluate poLight's TLens®?
constant field-of-view focuses technology on modern embedded systems. Designed around the Raspberry Pi 5 and an M12 optical architecture, the kit will initially support IQL's TLens-enabled camera modules built on the Sony IMX462 and Sony IMX900 image sensors, two industry-proven platforms for low-light, high-speed, and machine-vision applications. The evaluation kit provides a turnkey pathway for developers to test TLens®? performance, integrate with their existing software stacks, and accelerate camera-driven innovation in industrial automation, robotics, edge AI, and inspection systems. The IQL TLens??
RPi 5 Evaluation Kit, along with the first IMX462 and IMX900-basedTLens®? camera modules, will be available in limited early-access quantities in First Quarter 2026.
