Technical Manual

Technical Manual RF Mono
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Table of Contents
Technical Manual RF Mono ........................................................................................................ 1
1 Terms and abbreviations ..................................................................................................... 4
2 Introduction ........................................................................................................................... 5
2.1 Description ..................................................................................................................... 5
2.2 Available RF Mono systems .......................................................................................... 5
2.3 Field Bus Network structure .......................................................................................... 5
2.4 Visitor counting .............................................................................................................. 5
2.5 Restrictions and limitations ............................................................................................ 5
2.5.1 AM systems versus RF Mono systems ............................................................. 5
2.5.2 Detection distances ........................................................................................... 6
2.5.3 RF Deactivators ................................................................................................. 6
3 General RF and EAS issues ................................................................................................. 7
3.1 Noise sources ................................................................................................................ 7
3.2 Installation guidelines .................................................................................................... 7
4 Equipment and tools ............................................................................................................ 9
4.1 General installation tools ............................................................................................... 9
4.2 Laptop computer ............................................................................................................ 9
4.3 Software ........................................................................................................................ 9
5 Connections ........................................................................................................................ 10
5.1 “A” and “B” side of the antenna ................................................................................... 10
5.3 Field Bus connections ................................................................................................. 11
5.3.1 Bus connections with laptop ............................................................................ 11
5.4 Field Bus termination ................................................................................................... 12
5.5 Power supply ............................................................................................................... 13
5.5.1 Power supply specifications ............................................................................ 13
5.5.2 Power supply restrictions ................................................................................ 13
5.6 The RF Mono board .................................................................................................... 14
5.6.2 I/O connections................................................................................................ 16
6 Configuration ....................................................................................................................... 17
6.1 General connections.................................................................................................... 17
6.2 Synchronization ........................................................................................................... 18
6.2.1 Master-slave configuration .............................................................................. 18
6.2.2 Timeslot configuration ..................................................................................... 19
6.3 RF Mono configuration ................................................................................................ 19
7 Cross Point Device Explorer .............................................................................................. 20
7.1 Starting Device Explorer .............................................................................................. 20