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3.5.1Inventory
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ISO/IEC15693Protocol
TheInventorycommandisusedtoacquiretheuniqueIDs(UID)ofISO15693tagsinthereadzone.The
twoinventorymethodssupportedare16-slottedandsingle-slot.Asingle-slotrequestallowsall
transpondersinthereadzonetoreplytotheInventoryrequest.Incaseswheremorethanonetagis
present,sucharequestwouldcauseadatacollision,whichinturncausesareadertosendacollision
errormessagetotheGUI.A16-slotinventorysequencedecreasesthelikelihoodofadatacollisionby
forcingcomplianttransponderstorespondin1of16slots,basedonaportionoftheirUIDs.Toperforma
slottedsequence,theSlotMarker/End-of-Framerequestisusedinconjunctionwiththiscommand.Any
collisionthatdoesoccurinaslottedsequencecanbefurtherarbitratedbyusingtheanticollisionmaskin
analgorithmsimilartothatoutlinedintheISO15693standard.
Toinventoryatag,theusershould:
ClickthebuttonforInventoryintheCommandswindow.
ClickonanyflagsthatmustbesetintheTagFlagswindow.
ClickonSetProtocol.
Executethecommand.
Information:
Whenrequestingthe16-slotmethod,theEVMtransmitterremainsONinordertopreservethetag
stateschangedbytherequest.
SLOU192CNovember2006RevisedDecember2008EVMSoftware31
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