Hitachi Gige Vision Cameras

Well, in general, I believe, industrial cameras, output uncompressed video. Plus, they typically have big sensors (these are up to 2/3") and global shutters. If you are looking for fine details, like in a factory making decisions about moving parts, the increased details and less risk of blur are likely quite helpful.

For general surveillance, I see very little advantage and rarely hear about people using them. Also, it is a pain in the ass to then have to encode it to H.264 / MJPEG for long term recording. I am assuming, though someone correct me, that many/most industrial camera users do not do long term recording?