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14 Software

This chapter provides basic information on how to control the operation

of the i-PORT. For more detailed information please see the

Application Developers Guide To Programming For The ILR Library.

ILR technology requires an application program to provide end-user

functions, this level of software is provided by the System Integrator.

To facilitate the development of user specific applications, IDENTEC

has extended the Windows API (Application Program Interface) to

include easy access to ILR functions using C program calls.

IDENTEC does provide a demonstration package to allow the installer

to configure and to test the basic functions of the i-PORT. This software

is covered in Section 14

ILR Explorer Demonstration/Testing Software.

To allow maximum flexibility in interrogating tags, scanning barcodes,

allowing user data entry, providing user information, formatting and

sorting data, and data transfer to tags and over a network, the i-PORT

functions under the direction of a control program. This control

program customizes the i-PORT to do the required task. It is generated

by a menu-driven Windows application that allows the user to specify

how the system will operate.

This is a simple but very powerful feature of the IDENTEC ILR

system. It allows an i-PORT to perform similar tasks in very different

ways from completely automated tag interrogation and reporting to

automated assistance in process operations. The data source for various

fields can be specified, e.g. tag ID, tag file, barcode scan, user-keyed

input, or a digital input. A sequence of events can be specified to gather

data, format data in a specific way, and/or communicate data to a

specific location.

File I/O system on the i-PORT has the usual features such as Create,

Delete, Read, Write, Directory, and Attributes. The tag file system

supports any data format that will fit in the space available. Flat files

are supported with fields delimited by column or delimiter character,

and records delimited by linefeed.

Note:

Microsoft

Windows

CE Toolkit for Visual C++

is required to

make applications run on

Windows

operating system for x86

microprocessors that is used on the i-PORT.