User's Manual

i-PORT MB – Manual
Version 1.1 02.02.2007 Page 4/
37
Table of Contents
1
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................5
1.1
F
UNDAMENTALS
............................................................................................................................ 5
1.2
S
YSTEM
O
VERVIEW
....................................................................................................................... 5
2.0
COMPONENTS .............................................................................................................................7
2.1
I
-PORT
MB ................................................................................................................................ 7
2.2
A
NTENNAS
.................................................................................................................................. 7
2.3.
I
-B
T
AG
..................................................................................................................................... 9
3.0
INSTALLATION AND SET-UP.................................................................................................... 10
3.1
M
OUNTING THE I
-PORT
MB ......................................................................................................... 12
3.2
I
NTERFACES AND
LED
D
ISPLAYS
..................................................................................................... 15
4.0
COMMUNICATION PROTOCOL ................................................................................................. 17
4.1
T
ELEGRAM
S
TRUCTURE
,
E
SCAPING AND
CRC ..................................................................................... 17
4.2
G
ET VERSION COMMAND
............................................................................................................... 19
4.3
G
ET
T
AGS COMMAND
................................................................................................................... 20
4.4
G
ET
T
AG EXTENDED COMMAND
....................................................................................................... 22
4.5
G
ET
T
AG
F
ULL COMMAND
.............................................................................................................. 24
4.6
S
ET PARAMETER COMMAND
............................................................................................................ 26
4.7
G
ET PARAMETER COMMAND
........................................................................................................... 27
4.8
R
EADER PARAMETERS LIST
............................................................................................................ 28
4.9
R
EADER STATUS INFORMATION
....................................................................................................... 31
5.0
INSTALLATION- CONFIGURATION .......................................................................................... 32
5.0
D
EVICE ENUMERATION
................................................................................................................. 32
5.1
F
IRST TIME INSTALLATION
(“
SITE SETUP
”) ........................................................................................ 32
5.2
N
ORMAL INITIALIZATION
(“
APPLICATION ON HOST STARTING UP
”)........................................................... 33
5.3
N
ORMAL OPERATION
(“
HOST APPLICATION LOOP AFTER STARTUP
”) .......................................................... 33
5.4
E
RROR RECOVERY
....................................................................................................................... 33
5.5
H
OW TO USE INHIBITS TIME
,
RE
-
REPORT INTERVAL AND LIST BEHAVIOR
.................................................... 33
5.6
E
XCHANGING A READER WITHIN THE DAISY CHAIN
............................................................................... 34
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS........................................................................................................... 35
6.0
APPENDIX ................................................................................................................................ 36
7.1
S
AMPLE
CRC
CALCULATION
........................................................................................................... 36