Stereolabs ZED Mini Alternatives & Competitors

The Intel® RealSense™ Depth Camera D415 stands out for its standard field of view, making it well-suited for high-accuracy applications like 3D scanning. With a rolling shutter on the depth sensor, it offers the highest depth quality per degree, enabling precise measurements for smaller objects or when more accuracy is required. The D415 is lightweight, powerful, and cost-effective, making it an ideal choice for development and productization of new sensing solutions and devices that can better understand and interact with their surroundings.

This camera is part of the Intel® RealSense™ D400 series, which includes a complete suite of solutions for simple integration. It combines Intel's latest depth-sensing hardware and software into easy-to-integrate products, including vision processors, turnkey modules, cameras, SDKs, and computer vision libraries. As a result, developers, makers, and innovators can easily bring depth-sensing vision to their devices, fostering a new generation of intelligent vision-equipped solutions.

In industrial automation, the D415's high depth quality and precise measurement capabilities make it a valuable tool for various applications. Its ability to accurately sense and understand the environment can enhance robot guidance, object detection, and inspection tasks. Furthermore, its small form factor and customizable software allow for easy integration into existing systems, making it a versatile option for a wide range of industrial use cases. Additionally, its compatibility with Intel's vision processors and SDKs offers the potential for advanced real-time processing and data analytics in industrial environments.

The Intel® RealSense™ Depth Camera D435 boasts the widest field of view among Intel cameras, making it suitable for fast-moving applications. As a stereo solution, it delivers high-quality depth data, ideal for robotics and augmented/virtual reality applications where capturing a broad scene is crucial. With a range of up to 10 meters, its small form factor allows easy integration into various solutions, complete with Intel RealSense SDK 2.0 and cross-platform support.

This camera combines an Intel module and vision processor into a compact form factor, offering a powerful and customizable depth camera solution for development and rapid product creation. Its unique combination of a wide field of view and global shutter sensor makes it ideal for low-light environments, enabling applications like robotic navigation and object recognition. As part of the Intel® RealSense™ D400 series, the D435 provides simple out-of-the-box integration for developers, makers, and innovators looking to incorporate depth sensing into their intelligent vision-equipped devices.

The Intel® RealSense™ depth camera D435i combines robust depth sensing with an inertial measurement unit (IMU). The addition of an IMU allows the camera to refine its depth awareness during movement, enabling rudimentary SLAM and tracking applications for better point-cloud alignment. It also enhances environmental awareness for robotics, drones, and handheld scanning systems. The IMU data is time-stamped to align with the high-quality depth data, making it valuable for applications like virtual/augmented reality and drones.

The D435i integrates an IMU into a small form factor with an Intel module and vision processor, making it a complete and powerful package for development and productization. Its wide field of view and global shutter sensor make it ideal for robotic navigation and object recognition applications. The camera's wider field of view reduces blind spots, and the global shutter sensors offer excellent low-light sensitivity for navigation in dark environments.

As part of the Intel® RealSense™ D400 series, the D435i offers simple integration and is perfect for developers, makers, and innovators looking to incorporate depth sensing into their intelligent vision-equipped solutions. It brings forth a new generation of devices with advanced depth sensing capabilities, driving innovation across various industries.

The Intel® RealSense™ Depth Camera D405 is a short-range stereo camera offering sub-millimeter accuracy, making it ideal for close-range computer vision applications. Its standout feature includes the use of an image signal processor (ISP) to enhance RGB data from the depth sensor, ensuring matched RGB and depth data for improved imaging capabilities.

Operating within a range of 7 cm to 50 cm, the D405 provides sub-millimeter accuracy with a minimum object detection of 0.1 mm at 7 cm. Despite its high precision, the camera maintains a small and lightweight design, measuring only 42 mm × 42 mm × 23 mm and weighing 60 g, making it compact and portable.

The D405 is well-suited for a variety of industrial automation applications. In manufacturing facilities, it enables defect detection with remarkable accuracy of 0.1 mm, facilitating automated inspections and precise pick-and-place operations for small objects at close range. Additionally, the camera finds application in robotics with gripping capabilities, assembly line inspections, and even wound management in healthcare settings, providing accurate 3D measurements without the need for physical contact. Its sub-millimeter accuracy opens up a new world of use cases requiring precise close-range depth sensing.

The Intel® RealSense™ Depth Camera D455 is the latest addition to the D400 series, offering twice the range and improved performance. With a distance of 95 mm between depth sensors, the D455 achieves depth error of less than 2% at 4 meters. The integration of an IMU allows for enhanced environmental awareness in robotic and drone applications, refining depth awareness during camera movement.

The D455 provides more accuracy and flexibility for various use cases. Its longer range makes it ideal for collision avoidance in fast-moving autonomous robots, ensuring safer operation in dynamic environments. The tightly integrated RGB and depth streams with a global shutter on the RGB sensor improve the correlation between color and depth information, resulting in better quality scanning. For touch-free displays in public spaces, the longer range of the D455 enables reliable gesture control and interaction from a greater distance. Additionally, multiple D455 cameras can be easily set up together for volumetric content creation, offering real-time scene capture at up to 90 frames per second, both indoors and outdoors.

The starter kit of the D455e includes the camera itself, a M12 to RJ45 ethernet cable and a M8 power cable with wall plug. It comes fully equipped to start and test the camera quickly.
The FRAMOS Industrial Depth Camera D455e is built with Intel® RealSense™ technology. The depth camera has industrial M12 ethernet and M8 power connectors and features a wide field of view for depth and RGB sensors. Its water- and dust resistant housing is optimized for industrial environments. The FRAMOS Industrial Depth Camera D455e is ideal for OEMs and integrators who need 3D as well as 2D vision in their products and applications. The global shutter sensors allow for applications with fast motion. The Intel® RealSenseTM D450 depth module used in this camera extends the distance between the depth sensors to 95 mm which improves the depth (Z) error* to less than 2% at 4 m.
To improve the RGB image and the correspondence between the depth and RGB images, the RGB sensor includes a global shutter and is matched to the depth FOV with both having an 86° field of view.
The FRAMOS Industrial Depth Camera D455e is compatible with the Cross-platform SDK for Intel® RealSense™ devices, enabling multiple programming languages, wrappers, sample code and tools.

The starter kit of the D415e includes the camera itself, a M12 to RJ45 ethernet cable and a M8 power cable with wall plug. It comes fully equipped to start and test the camera quickly.
The FRAMOS Industrial Depth Camera D415e is built with Intel® RealSense™ technology. The depth camera has industrial M12 ethernet and M8 power connectors and features a field of view of approx. 72° (diagonal) for depth and RGB sensors. Its water- and dust resistant housing is optimized for industrial environments. The D415e is ideal for OEMs and integrators who need 3D as well as 2D vision in their products and applications. The wider baseline of the two rolling shutter IR imagers, compared to the D435e, provides higher depth accuracy for applications that require high precision. The D415e is compatible with the Cross-platform SDK for Intel® RealSense™ devices, enabling multiple programming languages, wrappers, sample code and tools.

From sensors to software, the ZED 2 camera is filled with cutting-edge technology that takes spatial perception to a whole new level.

Neural Depth Sensing
ZED 2 is the first stereo camera that uses neural networks to reproduce human vision, bringing stereo perception to a new level.

Built-in IMU, Barometer & Magnetometer
Multi-sensor capture made easy. Gather real-time synchronized inertial, elevation and magnetic field data along image and depth.

120° Wide-Angle Field of View
With its 16:9 native sensors and ultra sharp 8-element all glass lenses, capture video and depth with up to 120° field of view.

Spatial Object Detection
Detect objects with spatial context. Combine AI with 3D localization to create next-generation spatial awareness.

Improved Positional Tracking
Benefit from a wide angle FOV, advanced sensor stack and thermal calibration for a greatly improved positional tracking accuracy.

Cloud Connected
Monitor and control your camera remotely. Using a dedicated cloud platform, capture and analyze 3D data anywhere in the world.

Bringing depth cameras to the next level.
This new stereo camera combines advanced depth sensing with AI, letting you build cutting-edge spatial intelligence and virtually replicate the physical world.

AI-powered Depth Sensing.
An all-new lightweight neural network for stereo matching brings stereo depth sensing to the next level, with a wide 110° x 70° FOV.


Ultra Wide Field of View with Low Distortion.
Using an 8-element lens with optically corrected distortion and a wider ƒ/1.8 aperture, the ZED 2's field of view extends to 120° and captures 40% more light.

The Most Complete Sensor Stack.
Featuring next-generation IMU, barometer, magnetometer and temperature sensors. Factory calibrated on 6-axis with robotic arms.

All-Aluminium Frame with Thermal Control.
Camera heating induces changes in focal length and motion sensors biases. ZED 2 introduces thermal sensors to monitor temperature and compensate these drifts.

The Helios2 Time of Flight (ToF) camera is an IP67 “factory tough” 3D camera featuring Sony’s DepthSense sensor, engineered for high performance operation in industrial environments. Built for demanding 24/7 environments and a variety of industrial 3D applications such as robotics, 3D inspection, and logistics, including advanced material handling, pick and place, sorting, palletization / de-palletization, volume estimation, and more. The Helios2 delivers sub-millimeter precision and improved accuracy compared to the previous Helios. The calibration between the VCSELs and sensor timing is enhanced resulting in more 3D detail, along with improved edge detection to reduce flying pixels and overall noise.

Get an IP67 “factory tough”, high-performance 3D camera with the accuracy and precision you need powered by LUCID’s 3D ISP core and Sony’s DepthSense IMX556 Time-of-Flight (ToF) sensor. With the Helios2+ camera delivering two new features – High Dynamic Range (HDR) and High-Speed modes – over the original Helios2, the Helios2+ provides unmatched depth data clarity and high-speed 3D imaging for 24/7 operation in harsh industrial environments.

Helios2+ Time-of-Flight Camera with On-Camera HDR & High Speed Features

The Helios2+ is an advanced version of the Helios2 ToF camera offering two new key features enabling deployment in challenging environments, High Dynamic Range (HDR) mode and High Speed Time-of-Flight mode, while retaining all other benefits of the Helios2. Both HDR and High-Speed modes are realized entirely with on-camera processing and will impair minimal changes on the vision systems back-end. The Helios2+ shares the same ‘factory tough’ industrial platform with its predecessor and is 100% mechanically and electronically compatible with the Helios2 to offer a seamless upgrade path for existing customers. Its compact form factor, industrial reliability and attractive price point make the Helios2+ ideal for many demanding 3D applications such as 3D inspection, automated material handling and robotics to run more efficiently while reducing overall system cost.