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WhereWand II User’s Guide

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WhereWand II User’s Guide D1258 rev A

WhereNet Confidential

The WhereWand Hand Held Programmer consists of Handheld Computer with an

external WhereWand adapter with an integral antenna assembly. The WhereWand

is capable of two-way wireless communication with WhereTag and WhereCall tag

devices. The WhereWand is also capable of wired communication with

WherePort devices. The third capability of the WhereWand is wireless

communications with the Location Sensor in the WhereNet G2 infrastructure.

The WhereWand communicates with WhereTag II/III/IV devices by sending

magnetic FSK data to the tag and receiving on-off keyed / frequency shift keyed

(OOK/FSK) RF data from the tag. The WhereWand communicates with

WhereCall and WhereTag I devices by transmitting and receiving OOK/FSK RF

data to and from the tag. Communication with the WhereTag and WhereCall

allow the user to set tag configuration parameters such as DSSS blink intervals and

tag responses to such stimuli as WherePorts and/or switch/telemetry inputs. It also

allows the user to read back configuration and other data from the tag. The

WhereWand will automatically select the proper communication protocol scheme

based on the tag’s unique identification number

 Tag IDs between 0 and 16,777,215 are WhereCall or WhereTag I

 Tag IDs between 16,777,216 and 17,099,999 are WhereTag II V2.0

 Tag IDs between 17,100,000 and 17,999,999 are WhereTag II V2.1

 Tag IDs greater than 18,000,000 are WhereTag III or IV devices

The WhereWand communicates with WherePort II or III devices using the

configuration cable included with the WhereWand. This bi-directional interface