15" LCD Desktop Touchmonitors with Magnetic Swipe Reader (USB) User Guide 1525L

SECTION 1. FEATURES AND SPECIFICATIONS

The USB (Universal Serial Bus) Swipe Reader is a compact magnetic stripe card reader which

conforms to ISO standards. The Reader is compatible with the PC series of personal computers

or any device with a USB interface. A card is read by sliding it, stripe down and facing the LED

side, through the slot either forward or backward.

A LED (Light Emitting Diode) indicator on the Reader panel provides the operator with

continuous status of the Reader operations.

The reader conforms to the USB Human Interface Device (HID) Class specification Version 1.1.

This allows host applications designed for the latest versions of Windows 98, Me, 2000 to easily

communicate to the device using standard Windows API calls that communicate to the device

through the HID driver that comes with Windows.

Unlike HID keyboard emulation readers, this device does not use keyboard emulation. It

behaves like a vendor defined HID device so that a direct communication path can be established

between the Host application and the device without interference such as keystrokes from other

HID devices.

A demo program with its source code is available, written in Visual Basic, that exercises the

device using the standard Windows API.

FEATURES

Major features of the Swipe Reader are as follows:

• Powered through the USB – no external power supply required

• Hardware Compatible with PC or any computer or terminal with a USB interface

• Bi-directional card reading

• Reads encoded data that meets ANSI/ISO/CDL/AAMVA standards and others such as ISO

track 1 format on track 2 or 3.

• Reads up to three tracks of card data

• LED for status

• Compatible with USB specification Revision 1.1

• Compatible with HID specification Version 1.1

• Can use standard Windows HID driver for communications. No third part device driver is

required.

• Programmable USB serial number descriptor

• Programmable USB Interrupt In Endpoint polling interval

• Non-volatile flash EEPROM memory for property storage

• Built-in 6 foot USB cable