SR300 Life Expectancy (MTTF/ reliability)

• MartyG

  • September 02, 2019 09:19
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  There is not a firm figure available about life expectancy of the SR300 camera board.  RealSense cameras tend to be very durable over periods of years though, and I myself put an F200 camera (the closely related direct predecessor of the SR300) under heavy processing loads for 2 years on an almost daily basis without encountering hardware problems.

  Dorodnic the RealSense SDK Manager commented earlier in 2019 about the 400 Series cameras that "laser performance can degrade over time".  In the case of the 400 Series, he added that "This will not render the device completely useless (it will just rely more on passive stereo matching)".

  As the SR300 is based on coded light camera technology rather than the Stereo technology of the 400 Series, the SR300 may not be able to compensate for a degraded laser in the same way.

  As long as you provide the SR300 board with sufficient heat extraction to keep it within recommended temperature tolerances during operation, it should last for a long period of time.

  If a camera is going to fail because of a hardware issue such as a very rare factory defect then it usually does it soon after purchase.  So if you have some kind of test 'burn-in' period for your RealSense boards, such as a 24 hour long run, before installing them in your product, that would help to identify potentially faulty units before they reach the end-user.

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• Amana

  • September 02, 2019 13:39

  Thanks!

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