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Whether you click the Asset button from the inventory screen, or the Add Asset button from the Tag
Mask-Asset screen, you will see the Asset screen. There are four steps to creating an asset, and
pulling the gun trigger performs each one and advances you to the next step. You can skip steps, or
redo steps by manually tapping on one of the step buttons.
1. Barcode
– scan a barcode
2. RFID
– read an RFID tag
3. Photo
– take a picture (using the color camera or the 2D barcode’s B&W camera)
a. Only the ALH-9011 has the camera capability.
4. Save
– remember the asset definition.
Each button indicates the status of that activity
– grey text and indicator mean no data has been
collected. A blue button indicates which activity is selected. The button text changes color to
indicate if the unit is ready (yellow), working/scanning (red), or done (green) with that activity. To
perform the action, pull the gun trigger, tap the button again, or use one of the various keypad
buttons on the handheld.
When you take a photo of your asset, you have two different camera options to use. You can use
the full color camera, or the 2D barcode scanner’s own lower-resolution black & white camera). The
B&W camera is significantly faster to use, in practice, since the barcode scanner device is already
powered up by this point, and ready to capture images. You can select which camera to use with
the small radio buttons to the left of the image preview:
The Barcode scan is first. Just pull the trigger to
scan a barcode and advance to the next step.
When the barcode is successfully scanned, it is
displayed in the middle of the screen.
Next step is reading the RFID tag. Just pull the
trigger, press the Scan button above the
keypad, or tap on the RFID button again to read
the EPC.