Technical Manual RF Mono
Technical Manual RF Mono Table of Contents Technical Manual RF Mono ........................................................................................................ 1 1 Terms and abbreviations ..................................................................................................... 4 2 Introduction ........................................................................................................................... 5 3 4 5 2.1 Description ...................................
Technical Manual RF Mono 7.2 Logon to Device Explorer ............................................................................................ 20 7.3 Store overview ............................................................................................................. 21 7.4 Dashboard ................................................................................................................... 21 7.5 Logon to the connected devices ......................................................
Technical Manual RF Mono 1 Terms and abbreviations This chapter describes the terms and abbreviations used in this document. Term Abbreviation Explanation (Hard) Tag Tag Passive component, equipped with a pin and lock to allow attachment to garments, which can be detected by the receiver. (Paper) Label Label Passive component, self-adhesive, which can be detected by the receiver.
Technical Manual RF Mono 2 Introduction The products mentioned in this manual are Electronic Article Surveillance (EAS) systems based on Radio Frequency (RF) technology operating between 7.6 MHz – 8.6 MHz. They are manufactured by Cross Point B.V. Waanderweg 12 7812 HZ Emmen The Netherlands +31 (0)591 668866 www.crosspoint.nl 2.
Technical Manual RF Mono On RF Mono systems, pins 3 and 6 are used for synchronization purposes between the antennas, which are based on a completely different signal compared to AM systems. Connecting AM systems and RF Mono systems to the same Field Bus will result in bad performance and synchronization! 2.5.2 Detection distances Any specified detection distances are maximum values.
Technical Manual RF Mono 3 General RF and EAS issues This chapter covers the various issues related to Radio Frequency and Electronic Article Surveillance systems in general, like: 3.1 Noise sources Installation guidelines Noise sources Listed below are various noise sources that might affect the performance of any EAS system. It is strongly advised to either eliminate these noise sources (as far as possible) or maintain the largest possible distance to these noise sources.
Technical Manual RF Mono 4. Avoid unnecessary long cables. Run the power supply cables in a direct line to the EAS antennas. Never run power supply cables vertically up the wall within one meter distance of the antennas (never around the entrance/exit doorframe). 5. By default the shielding of shielded cables is not connected to the electronic boards or antenna frames if not stated otherwise in the Connections chapter of this manual.
Technical Manual RF Mono 4 Equipment and tools The following equipment and tools are advised to use when installing and tuning the RF Mono system. 4.1 General installation tools The general tools required for installation of an EAS system (drills, screwdrivers, cutters, etc.) are not described in detail. 4.2 Laptop computer To properly adjust the RF Mono system through Cross Point’s Device Explorer software, it is required to use a Windows based (laptop) computer.
Technical Manual RF Mono 5 Connections In the following chapters the connections between the various devices are described. Furthermore the Printed Circuit Board (PCB) and its components are explained. 5.1 “A” and “B” side of the antenna The RF Mono antenna has a front side (A) and a back side (B). These sides are indicated on the visitor counter in the top of the antenna. The A-side is the side on which the electronic boards can be accessed. When using the visitor counter (see also chapter 5.
Technical Manual RF Mono 5.3 Field Bus connections The RFM antennas are interconnected through the Field Bus by using preferably FTP cables, because FTP has an advantage to eliminate noise because of the extra shielding. The Cross Point Field Bus requires the devices to be connected in a “daisy chain” connection.
Technical Manual RF Mono 5.4 Field Bus termination For the Field Bus to operate properly, the bus needs to be terminated on the first device and the last device in the bus. When an antenna is either the first or the last device in the Field Bus, then the bus needs to be terminated on that device. To terminate the RFM antenna, switch SW1 must be switched to ON. See chapter 5.6 for the position of this switch on the RFM PCB.
Technical Manual RF Mono 5.5 Power supply The RFM antennas must be powered by connecting the PSU RF SERIES 15VDC-60W. 5.5.1 Power supply specifications Please refer to the Instruction Manual Power Supply PSU RF SERIES 15VDC-60W for information and safety instructions of this power supply. 5.5.2 Power supply restrictions Local laws and regulations must be respected when installing and servicing this device. A maximum of three (3) RF Mono antennas can be powered using one (1) power supply.
Technical Manual RF Mono 5.6 The RF Mono board Figure 6 shows the RF Mono PCB and its available components. ANTENNA BLACK BLUE 3 C3 J11 J3 (OPTIONAL) O 8 J19 GND J13 J4 C8 B1 J14 BUZZER NC COM NO SW2 J8 RESET J2 S2 J15 SW1 POWER BUS A GND IO2 IO1 5V BUS B J5 J21 VIS COUNT J10 -+ 15VDC Figure 6: The RF Mono Printed Circuit Board 5.6.1.1 RF Mono PCB Components Table 1 shows the RF Mono PCB components and a description of their function.
Technical Manual RF Mono VIS COUNT Visitors counter connector. J2 Connect the cable of the visitor counter to this connector. J21 RS-485 Bus A connector for RJ45 connection. Allows the board to be connected to the Field bus. J10 RS-485 Bus B connector for RJ45 connection. Allows the board to be connected to the Field bus. If this TRX board is not the last board in the bus, then J2 must be used to connect the RS-485 bus to the next board (daisy chain). J14 RELAY outputs (NC, COM & NO).
Technical Manual RF Mono 5.6.2 I/O connections The RF Mono board is equipped with two I/O’s, which can be used for connecting a pushbutton (Forced Alarm option) or as output for other external devices (e.g. camera). To avoid interference, caused by the wires which will be connected to any of the I/O’s, it is very important to only connect the wires to the I/O connector contacts.
Technical Manual RF Mono 6 Configuration This chapter describes the recommended adjustment procedure for the RF Mono transceiver. 6.1 Configuration General connections Refer to chapter 3 for noise sources and installation guidelines. Position the antenna(s) at the required location. Connect the power supply to the power input of the RF Mono board. See section 5.5 for power supply information and restrictions.
Technical Manual RF Mono 6.2 Synchronization When multiple RF Mono antennas are installed in the same shop, like in supermarket checkouts or multiple entrance shops, one of the RF Mono antennas will be declared as master and all other antennas, which are connected to the same field bus, will be slaves. Also each antenna must be set to the correct timeslot value. The next sections will explain these settings in more detail. 6.2.
Technical Manual RF Mono 6.2.2 Timeslot configuration When multiple RFM antennas are installed in one row or close to each other, each antenna must be configured with the correct timeslot setting, to avoid alarms being triggered on other antennas when a tag is moving close to one of the antennas. The selectable timeslots are 1 and 2 and must be set in an alternating pattern.
Technical Manual RF Mono 7 Cross Point Device Explorer This chapter covers the RF Mono antenna settings in combination with the Cross Point Device Explorer software. Please refer to chapter 2.2 for details on the Field Bus structure. For the Cross Point Device Explorer installation procedure and other general settings we refer to the Cross Point Device Explorer User Manual (download available at www.crosspoint.nl). Make sure to keep your laptop at least 3m away from the antennas.
Technical Manual RF Mono 7.3 Store overview When Device Explorer is started and you have successfully logged-on, the Store overview screen opens. All Access Points that are available for you are shown in this screen. Figure 11: The Main screen Select the required store from the Store overview screen through a double click on the store to be able to perform local or remote service to the RF Mono systems that are installed in the selected store.
Technical Manual RF Mono Figure 12: The Dashboard 7.5 Logon to the connected devices The RF Mono devices are secured against unauthorized access by means of a special code, the Installer Access code. The Access Point logs-on to the devices using the Installer Access code. The Installer Access code is automatically derived from your company´s dealer code and cannot be customized! You can view your new Installer Access Code in the Device Explorer.
Technical Manual RF Mono 7.6 Creating entrances If entrances have not yet been created and the Device Explorer shows the screen as displayed in Error! Reference source not found., you can just click the Yes button to tart the automatic antenna arrangement on the Access Point.
Technical Manual RF Mono 7.7 Configuring entrances When the Entrances section is clicked in the Dashboard, the Entrances page is shown. Figure 15: Entrances The Entrances page is divided in 2 parts: 7.7.1 Entrances - Top part The top part of the Entrances page consists of the following section: Mute button Button bar Main menu 3D view Figure 16: Entrances – Top part Cross Point Device Explorer v1.
Technical Manual RF Mono The Mute button enables you to switch off all buzzers on all devices at once. This is useful when you are configuring the system and don’t want any loud alarms. 7.7.2 Main menu The Main menu lets you quickly navigate to the other available sections of the Device Explorer: 7.7.3 System – refer to paragraph 7.
Technical Manual RF Mono 7.7.3.2 Perspective view Click the Perspective view button to change the 3D view into a perspective view, to be able to quickly navigate to a specific aisle or antenna, especially useful for large installations. Figure 19: Perspective view The Show/hide panels button is not available in this view. 7.7.3.3 Counting view Click the Counting view button to change the 3D view to helicopter view and see the number of visitors (Optima model only) or alarms per aisle.
Technical Manual RF Mono Figure 21: Entrance arrangement mode In the Main menu, an extra entrance named “Unarranged” appears. If any antennas could not be automatically arranged or extra antennas are added after automatic antenna arrangement was performed, these antennas are automatically added to the Unarranged entrance.
Technical Manual RF Mono The Entrance button bar has changed and shows the following antenna arrangement related buttons: Automatically arrange all antennas Mirror this entrance Reverse counter direction Create new entrance Remove this entrance Figure 22: Entrance arrange view related buttons The names of the antennas, aisles and entrances can be changed by clicking on the name and entering the new name. Just click somewhere outside of the text input field to apply the new value.
Technical Manual RF Mono 7.7.4 Entrances – selected entrance When an entrance is selected in the Main menu and the Home button in the button bar is pressed, the bottom part of the screen will show the following tabs: 7.7.4.1 Notifications In case of an alarm situation, notifications will be used to draw attention and to present information about the type of alarm.
Technical Manual RF Mono 7.7.4.1.1 Tag The following tag alarm notification is available for the RFM system: Notification Explanation Tag detected This notification can be used as a ‘pre-alarm’ feature when the option “Use visitor counter to distinguish in- and outgoing alarms” has been enabled. Table 2: Alarm notification For RFM Optima models the Incoming, Outgoing and Undefined tag alarm notifications are also not available. 7.7.4.1.2 Visitors Available for Optima models only.
Technical Manual RF Mono 7.7.4.1.3 Other notifications Notification Explanation Default notification Enable this notification if you want to visualize that the antenna is switched on. For example the green LED can be switched on infinite to show the visitor that the system is active. System jammed Set this notification to notify store employees in case the system is being jammed with a jamming device or as a result of another high noise source. Table 4: Other notifications 7.7.4.1.
Technical Manual RF Mono Select a notification and click the Delete button 7.7.4.1.5 to delete a pre-defined notification. Loading pre-defined notifications Pre-defined notification settings can be loaded again by clicking the Load and save notifications button, selecting the option ‘Load notifications’ from the menu and the Load notifications dialog opens. Figure 25: Load notifications A list with pre-defined notifications that have previously been saved appears.
Technical Manual RF Mono 7.7.4.1.6 Alarm history The Alarm history screen shows a list of tags that have been detected on all antennas in this entrance. Figure 26: Alarm history Dependent of the notification settings, the incoming , outgoing and undefined alarms can be distinguished by means of their individually colored icons. By default all types of alarms are displayed, but pressing one or more of the filter buttons will show or hide the selected alarms.
Technical Manual RF Mono 7.7.5 Entrances – selected antenna If you click on an RFM antenna in the 3D-view, various individual antenna settings can be configured. The following tabs will appear at the bottom of the screen: 7.7.5.1 Scope view RF The Scope view RF screen offers oscilloscope views of the signals received by the RFM antenna. Figure 27: Scope view RF This scope view shows the detected signals (black line) as they appear within the transmission bandwidth (white section).
Technical Manual RF Mono will become visible. When this signal rises above the red line in the middle of the scope view (the threshold level), an alarm will be triggered. The threshold level is always situated around the value 50 and adapts itself to the highest noise levels. When the Detection sensitivity is set to a lower value or in case of low environmental noise, the threshold line will be a flat line.
Technical Manual RF Mono 7.7.5.1.4 View tuning The Tuning scope view shows the tuning of the antenna. Each RFM antenna is factory pre-tuned and should resemble an image as displayed below. Figure 31: The tuning scope view A properly tuned RFM antenna shows a more or less flat signal over the complete bandwidth. Any visible peaks should preferably not be higher than the value 10.
Technical Manual RF Mono 7.7.5.1.6 Settings – Detection sensitivity The detection sensitivity setting lets you adjust the overall sensitivity of the RFM antenna between the values 0 (lowest sensitivity) and 69 (highest sensitivity). When adjusting the detection sensitivity, the threshold curve should be watched carefully. As long as the threshold curve is a completely flat line, there is still room for increasing the sensitivity.
Technical Manual RF Mono 7.7.5.1.9 Alarm history The Alarm history screen shows the tags that have been detected on the selected antenna. Figure 33: Alarm history Dependent of the notification settings, the incoming , outgoing and undefined alarms can be distinguished by means of their individually colored icons. By default all types of alarms are displayed, but pressing one or more of the filter buttons will show or hide the selected alarms.
Technical Manual RF Mono 7.7.5.2 Notifications – I/O settings Next to the audio and visual alarm notifications, as described in section 7.7.4.1, also a relay and a maximum of 2 I/O’s can be configured to activate any external device (camera, external buzzer, etc.) during an alarm situation. These notification settings have to be configured on each individual antenna, since the relay and I/O’s are antenna specific. Any externally connected device needs to be physically connected to the antenna.
Technical Manual RF Mono 7.8 System Clicking the System hyperlink in the Main menu or clicking the System information section in the dashboard will open the System information screen. Through the System screen, various system-wide settings can be configured and applied to all devices on the Field Bus. Figure 35: System information The top-part of this screen shows information about the connected transceiver(s) and whether the firmware of all connected devices is up-to-date.
Technical Manual RF Mono 7.8.2 RF settings The RF settings screen enables you to configure various system settings for all RF Mono antennas that are connected. In case Checkout RF Deactivators are also connected, then synchronization for these devices settings can also be configured here. Figure 36: System settings Only one master antenna is allowed on the Field Bus. Select one of the available antennas from the master drop-down box to appoint that antenna as master for the complete system.
Technical Manual RF Mono RF Mono setting Explanation Used tags Select which types of tags are being used. The antenna can use Active Power Control (APC) to avoid paper labels being deactivated when moved too close to the antenna. Available tag options are: Paper labels: When a label moves closer to the antenna, the APC will become active and the transmission power will be reduced, to avoid deactivation of the paper label.
Technical Manual RF Mono 7.8.5 Devices The Devices screen shows a list of all connected devices, their firmware status and some system settings. Figure 37: System – Devices In the Devices list it is possible to: View the firmware version of each connected device View which device is terminated Upload new device firmware Locate a device Reset a device Change the device name Just move your mouse cursor over a device in the list and the Locate buttons for that device will appear. 7.8.5.
Technical Manual RF Mono 7.8.5.3 Uploading new firmware In case new firmware is available, you can automatically upgrade all devices of the same type by pressing the Update all button 7.8.5.4 . Removing disconnected devices All devices that have the disconnected status can be removed permanently by pressing the Remove disconnected devices button 7.8.5.5 . Turning all LEDs on/off The LEDs on all connected devices can be switched on at once by pressing the Turn all LEDs on button .
Technical Manual RF Mono 8 Combining the RF Checkout Deactivator In case RF deactivators need to be installed in combination with the RF mono system, the RF Checkout Deactivator must be used. The RF Checkout Deactivator is especially designed for use with the RF Mono system. When integrated into the field bus, this deactivator will properly synchronize with the RF Mono system, resulting in best performance. 8.
Technical Manual RF Mono 9 Quick installation and system configuration This chapter will guide you through the installation and configuration of the RF Mono system. 1. Carefully check the area where the RF Mono antenna is going to be installed for potential noise sources. Follow the guidelines and instructions in chapter 3. 2. Once the exact position has been determined, properly install the RF Mono antenna(s), power suppl(y)(ies), wiring, RF Deactivators and CrossCONNECT Access Point (CCAP).
Technical Manual RF Mono 10 Regulatory information FCC WARNING This device complies with Part 15 of the FCC Rules. Operation is subject to the following two conditions: (1) This device may not cause harmful interference, and (2) this device must accept any interference received, including interference that may cause undesired operation. NOTE 1: This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class B digital device, pursuant to part 15 of the FCC Rules.
