Prophesee Brings Event-Based Vision to Raspberry Pi 5 with GenX320 Starter Kit

New starter kit provides developers efficient, cost-effective way to leverage low-power, high-speed neuromorphic vision for IoT, drones, robotics, security and surveillance—with one of the world’s most popular embedded development platforms

PARIS, Aug 26, 2025

Prophesee, the inventor and leader in event-based neuromorphic vision systems, today announces the launch of the GenX320 Starter Kit for Raspberry Pi^® 5, making its breakthrough frameless sensing technology available to the Raspberry Pi developer community for the first time. Built around Prophesee’s ultra-compact, ultra-efficient GenX320 event-based vision sensor, the kit connects directly to the Raspberry Pi 5 camera connector to allow development of real-time applications that leverage the advantages of event-based vision for drones, robotics, industrial automation, surveillance, and more.

Image 1: Prophesee Starter Kit GenX320 for Raspberry Pi 5

The kit enables efficient, cost-effective and easy-to-use access to develop solutions based on Prophesee’s advanced Metavision^® event-based vision platform, through use of the company’s OpenEB, open-source core of its award-winning Metavision SDK. The Raspberry Pi ecosystem is one of the largest and most active hardware communities in the world, with more than 60 million units sold and millions of developers engaged across open-source and maker platforms.

Event-based vision is a paradigm shift from traditional frame-based approaches. It doesn’t capture entire images at once but instead detects changes in brightness, known as “events,” at each pixel. This makes sensors much faster (responding in microseconds), able to operate with much less data and processing power, and be more power-efficient than traditional sensors.

“This launch makes our pioneering approach available to a highly engaged global developer base that’s already pushing the boundaries of embedded and edge applications. With the GenX320 Starter Kit for Raspberry Pi 5, we’re making event-based vision more open, easy, and accessible than ever before,” said Luca Verre, co-founder and CEO of Prophesee.

The kit is purpose-built to enable real-world, real-time applications where traditional frame-based vision struggles:

Drones & Robotics: Obstacle avoidance, drone-to-drone tracking, real-time SLAM
Industrial IoT: 3D scanning, defect detection, and predictive maintenance
Surveillance & Safety: Intrusion detection, fall detection, and motion analytics

Image 2: Applications

ABOUT THE KIT

The GenX320 Starter Kit is built around the Prophesee GenX320 sensor, the smallest and most power-efficient event-based vision sensor available. With a 320×320 resolution, >140 dB dynamic range, event rate equivalent to ~10,000 fps, and sub-millisecond latency, the sensor provides the performance needed for demanding real-time applications on an embedded platform.

Key Features:

Compact event-based camera module with MIPI CSI-2 interface
Native integration with Raspberry Pi 5 (board sold separately)
Power-efficient operation (<50 mW sensor-only consumption)
OpenEB support with Python and C++ APIs

Software Resources:

Developers will be able to access drivers, data recording, replay and visualization tools on GitHub.
Access to the Prophesee Knowledge Center, a centralized location for users to access various resources, including: a download repository, user guides, and FAQs; a community forum to share ideas; a support ticket system; and additional resources such as application notes, product manuals, training videos, and more than 200 academic papers.

AVAILABILITY

The Prophesee GenX320 Starter Kit for Raspberry Pi 5 is available for pre-order starting August 26, 2025, through Prophesee’s website and authorized distributors. For more information or to order, visit: www.prophesee.ai/event-based-starter-kit-genx320-raspberry-pi-5/

ABOUT RASPBERRY PI

Raspberry Pi is a leading low-cost computing platform that powers innovation across the globe. Raspberry Pi 5, its most powerful model yet, brings enhanced performance and expanded I/O capabilities to professionals and enthusiasts alike.

Learn more at raspberrypi.com.

ABOUT PROPHESEE

Prophesee is the inventor of the world’s most advanced neuromorphic vision systems. The company developed a breakthrough Event-based Vision approach to machine vision. This new vision category allows for significant reductions of power, latency and data processing requirements to reveal what was invisible to traditional frame-based sensors until now. Prophesee’s patented Metavision sensors and algorithms mimic how the human eye and brain work to dramatically improve efficiency in areas such as autonomous vehicles, industrial automation, IoT, mobile and AR/VR. Prophesee is based in Paris, with local offices in Grenoble, Shanghai, and Silicon Valley.