IP67 Camera Enclosures for Vision AI in Harsh Environments

IP67 Camera Enclosures AI Vision Solution

An IP rating, defined in IEC 60529 (opens in a new tab), tells you what a camera housing keeps out. In IP67, the 6 means dust-tight and the 7 means protection against immersion in water up to 1 m deep for 30 minutes. Ratings are not cumulative, so IP67 does not cover water jets. For areas cleaned with high-pressure, high-temperature washdowns, look for IP69K.

There are two ways to get a sealed camera for vision AI: buy a camera that is rated IP67 itself, or put a standard industrial camera inside an IP67 enclosure.

• IP67-rated cameras: for example IDS uEye FA (opens in a new tab) cameras, rated IP66, IP67, and IP69K, with GigE and Power over Ethernet (IDS cameras with Roboflow)
• IP67 enclosures: for example Basler's IP67 housing (opens in a new tab) for ace 2 and other ace cameras, with lens tubes and cable glands sized to your lens (Basler cameras with Roboflow)
• Dry indoor stations: Roboflow AI1 (opens in a new tab) (IP54) puts an 8 MP camera, an integrated 8-LED ring light, and an NVIDIA Jetson Orin NX in one housing for assembly, packaging, and inspection stations

Collect your training images through the enclosure window, with the camera in its final position, so the model learns any reflections or tint the window adds. Then label the images and train a model in Roboflow, and run it with Roboflow Inference on the camera's GigE Vision stream, on an edge device next to the line.

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Already have sealed cameras? Roboflow Inference runs models on GigE Vision and RTSP streams from the cameras you already have, so you can add AI to the washdown and outdoor cameras you run today.