B&R Smart Lights provide precise, high-performance lighting, seamlessly integrated in your automation solution. Synchronized in microsecond precision with sensors, motor positions, and machine events, they deliver consistent image quality and reliable results at high speeds and under a wide range of lighting conditions. The flexible selection of light bars, ringlights and backlights ensure the perfect lighting solution for the needs of your application.
Adaptive lights to unveil the invisible
Intelligent lights that can seamlessly adapt to your products in real-time, allow you to unveil the invisible. Each light can feature up to four different LED colors. The selection ranges from white and various visible colors to invisible colors. Infrared or ultraviolet LEDs can be used to make structures disappear or become visible.
By using complementary lighting in different applications, maximum intensity and contrast can be achieved. At the same time, the right color combination ensures minimum exposure time and smearing.
- 4 out of 7 different LED colors in one light (red, green, blue, lime, white, infrared, ultraviolet)
- Real-time color adaptation made possible by an integrated control system
- Available as integrated camera lighting or an external smart backlight, light bar or ringlight
Filters for improved image quality
Additional filters are a simple and inexpensive way to further improve the quality of captured images. A polarizing filter can eliminate reflections and glare and a collimating filter ensures optimum contrast.
- Elimination of reflections and glare
- Perfect contrast in every situation
- Use for challenging surfaces (e.g. metallic)
Light bars
The light bars can be ordered individually or in assemblies of two, three or four. The flexible light bars feature electronic beam angle adjustment and make it possible to implement bright-field illumination (left) and dark-field illumination (right) with the same device, simply by changing a single parameter. 
Ringlights
Ringlights are comprised of either four, six or eight barlights, and provide exceptionally homogeneous illumination.
Backlights
Six backlight variants are available to allow flexible adaptation to the task at hand. 
Factory calibrated
B&R calibrates its light bars and backlights prior to delivery. This means that lighting components can be exchanged in the field without requiring any changes to the machine vision application. Since LED intensity varies with changes in temperature, B&R has also integrated temperature tracking to adjust LED power automatically.
Simple cabling
Integrated into the machine network via an M12 hybrid connector, which also supplies the necessary 24 VDC power, B&R lighting systems each need only a single cable. A second hybrid connection enables daisy-chain cabling with additional lights or the camera.
Runtime flexibility
Many machine vision applications require very precise alignment of the light source to achieve good results. That's why B&R equipped its light bars with electronic beam angle adjustment from -40° to +90°.
When producing multiple products on the same machine, the lighting angle can be optimized between batches – simply set it once for each product and save it as part of the batch recipe. The electronic beam angle adjustment on the ringlights makes it possible to optimize the light cone.
Adjust the configuration at any time
Just like the angle of the light bars, all other lighting parameters can be configured at runtime to optimize illumination or adapt to new products. Combining LEDs of different colors makes it possible to adjust the wavelength at runtime to optimize contrast. Diagnostic data can be read from the lights at any time thanks to their network connection.
Object-specific requirements such as bright-field or dark-field illumination can be implemented through simple configuration. There is no need for error-prone manual settings with mounting screws.
