Operations and Maintenance Manual

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Multi-Protocol Reader 2.4 Maintenance Instructions

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Lane Assignment

The reader can perform lane asignment (voting) to identify the most probable lane in which the OBU resides.

This is used when producing VOTE or POST messages to the Lane Controller. The settings for voting method

and voting communication are defined on the Lane Assignment page, shown below.

1. From the dashboard page, click the Lane Assignment button.

Result: The following screen appears.

The default lane assignment method is "Majority Voting", which means that the reader generates a VOTE report

to the lane controller based on which channel has the highest handshake count at voting time. The voting time

is settable on the "Channels" page. The other lane assignment option "Report on First Read/Program" is a

legacy mode from a previous generation of the reader. In this mode a report is generated as soon as a tag is

seen and programmed. This legacy mode is not recommended for ORT use.

Multiple Reader Lane Assignment

ORT lanes allow OBUs to cross multiple capture zones which may cross between readers. The Readers should

assign an OBU to one RF channel to prevent duplicate transactions.

Figure 5-14: Two Readers communicating with one OBU

A5 A6

Reader 1

RF5 RF6

Reader 2

RF4

RF7

slot 4 slot 5 slot 1 slot 2