Manual

CELL CONTROLLERS
The Cell Controller acts as the brains for the PinPoint hardware system. The
PinPoint Cell Controller is an
active network peripheral, which
transmits and receives a radio
frequency signal through attached
antennas. This signal is returned
from a 3D-iD tag and translated
by the Cell Controller into Tag
Antenna Distance information
(TAD data). The translated TAD
data is then sent from the Cell
Controller to a server via stan-
dard TCP / IP over an Ethernet
LAN. Each PinPoint Cell
Controller can support up to 16
antennas and comes with a sin-
gle 10 / 100 BT network interface. The PinPoint Cell Controller acts as a DCHP
client; therefore receiving its networking addressing information from a DHCP
server across the LAN.
The Cell Controller is a Linux based system running proprietary software devel-
oped by PinPoint. The hardware
is a Pentium system with custom
PinPoint developed boards pro-
viding customized processing and
communications capabilities.
The Cell Controllers transmit and
receive signal strengths - as well
as other settings, can be altered
via the Cell Controller Interface,
which is in turn available through
the Configurator application. For
additional assistance, see the
Configurator application and its
accompanying documentation.