EEVideo Specification

The Embedded Ethernet Video (EEVideo) specification defines an open protocol for delivering live video over standard Ethernet using IP networking—built for embedded machine-vision cameras and sensors.

Tecphos sponsors the specification so product teams can implement interoperable devices without a proprietary closed stack.

Where to read it

Protocol structure

EEVideo has two largely independent parts:

1. Management Protocol — host discovery, configuration, and monitoring via CoAP (Constrained Application Protocol) and CoRE link-format discovery. Device features are exposed as 32-bit registers with a discoverable feature map.
2. Stream Protocol — efficient UDP delivery of video with low latency: Start-of-Frame, pixel-data, and End-of-Frame packets, without requiring heavy host-side protocol stacks.

Design goals

• Leverage standard Ethernet hardware and IP software tooling
• Low latency for live machine vision (raw / low-latency compressed data)
• High efficiency with minimal protocol overhead
• Low complexity on the camera/sensor side
• Flexible formats, frame rates, and pixel characteristics
• Open source so products can audit, implement, and interoperate

Related open-source tooling

• goEEVideo — Go client library for discovery and CoAP register control
• eeVid — CLI for discover, registers, capture, and NVM programming
• eeView — GStreamer live stream viewer
• eevLark — Starlark scripts for configure, I2C, and capture automation

FPGA IP

• EEVideo FPGA IP — zero-royalty FPGA implementation of the EEVideo stack
• CrossLink-NX Ethernet Video Dev Board — hardware platform for EEVideo device development