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Xact Application User Manual
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1. Introduction
This chapter introduces this document, lists useful related documents, describes
the typographic conventions being used in this document, and provides contact
information for providing feedback on or reporting problems with this document.
Purpose
This document has been written for software and hardware developers,
engineers, scientists, and others with a technical background who are developing
Telemetry, Telematics, M2M, or wireless applications. This document assumes
you have a working knowledge of GPS principles, wireless communications
(particularly the GSM standard), basic electronics, Boolean logic, and computing.
This document also assumes you have a working knowledge of basic software
development tools. Also, the XACT USB Loader/Editor is required to make
changes in the configuration file and a terminal program is recommended 
HyperTerm, TerraTerm, PuTTY, or equivalent  will work just fine.
Related Documents
You may find the following documents helpful and these are available on the Xact
Technology Website (xacttechnology.com):
 Xact Message Protocol Spreadsheet  XACT Tracker Protocol Rev T
 Xact Hardware Specification Document V1.6
 Xact Hardware Schematic V2.1
 MMA7455L Accelerometer Data Sheet, available from Freescale
Semiconductor.
 WMP 100 GSM/GPRS/EDGE Rx wireless module, available from Sierra
Wireless.
 u-blox AMY-5M GPS Receiver  Summary, available from u-blox and on the
Xact Technology Website.
Conventions
The following typographic conventions are used in this manual:
 Field labels or window control labels (such as button labels) are shown in bold
serif; for example, the Open button.
 Pre-set user-selectable values (for example, choices in a drop-down list) are
shown in italics, as are numeric or other character data that can be sent