User's Guide

Tarvos User Guide - Version 0.3 6
1. Introduction
1.1 Purpose and Scope
This purpose of this document is to educate developers designing reader control and data applications for
the Tarvos reader. It describes the Tarvos Reader interfaces and protocols as well as providing references
and relevant UHF RFID information.
The users of the Tarvos reader is assumed to have basic knowledge of software development and network
connectivity. In addition, a high-level understanding of reader protocols would be beneficial. Please refer
to the documents in the next section for more details.
1.2 Reference Documents
The documents below will describe UHF RFID and the protocols in more detail.
• EPC Global, EPC™ Radio-Frequency Identity Protocols Generation-2 UHF, v2.0.1
• EPC Global, Low Level Reader Protocol (LLRP), Version 1.1
1.3 Document Conventions
Item Convention Explanation / Example
Acronyms/Initialisms
All uppercase; usually spelled
out on first use.
Radio Frequency IDentification (RFID)
Book titles Title caps, italic. See the Low Level Reader Protocol (LLRP)
Chapter titles Title caps, in quotation marks. See Chapter 2, “Tarvos External Interfaces”
Code samples and
examples
Monospaced font.
host_ip = "169.254.0.20"
antennas.mux_sequence=1 3 2 2 4
URLs Lowercase http://www.star-int.net/