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Operating the Reader Using the ReaderStart Software

14.12

TagScan

To represent the relationship between the tag phase and the RSSI value, it is possible to plot both values by means of
the TagScan.

✔ There is only one tag in the ﬁeld or a tag has been selected.

Click

Start

to activate the TagScan.

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The phase shifts are seen in the frequency switching. The RSSI value does not change because the transponder
(tag) is not moved.

Fig. 77: TagScan: phase shift (due to the channel change), transponder is not moved

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Summary of Contents for ARU4 Series

Page 1: ...User Guide ARU 2400 ARU 3xxx RRU 4xxx English Kathrein RFID UHF Readers IMPORTANT Read carefully before use ...

Page 2: ...rsion of this manual is available at our website www kathrein solutions com Information provided in this manual is intended to be accurate and reliable However Kathrein Solutions GmbH assumes no responsibility for its use nor for any infringements of rights of third parties which may result from its use This document and the information contained in it are proprietary information of Kathrein Solut...

Page 3: ...athrein RFID Antenna Interface KRAI 15 7 2 1 WIRA 70 KRAI Polarisation Switch Antenna PLS 15 7 2 2 KRAI SMSH Smart Shelf Antenna 17 7 3 Further Reference Material 18 8 The Reader 19 8 1 Functional Speciﬁcation 19 8 2 Features 19 8 3 Scope of Delivery 19 8 4 Accessories 20 8 4 1 Antennas 20 8 4 2 Antenna Cables 20 8 4 3 Antenna Adapters 20 8 4 4 Antenna Mounting Accessories 20 8 4 5 Antenna Protect...

Page 4: ...e ReaderStart Software 48 13 3 1 Requirements 48 13 4 Navigating in the ReaderStart User Interface 51 13 4 1 Menu Bar 51 13 4 2 Status Field 65 14 Operating the Reader Using the ReaderStart Software 66 14 1 Communication 66 14 1 1 Ethernet Section 66 14 1 2 Communication Conﬁguration Linux Module 69 14 2 Application 77 14 2 1 Available Applications 79 14 3 Basic Reading 80 14 3 1 Mode 81 14 3 2 St...

Page 5: ...14 9 8 Kill 105 14 10 KRAI 106 14 10 1 Polarisation 107 14 10 2 LED 107 14 10 3 Jumper Cable Attenuation 108 14 10 4 Direction 108 14 11 AppManager 109 14 11 1 Currently Available Apps 109 14 11 2 Installing an App 110 14 12 TagScan 111 14 13 Spectral Scan 113 14 14 Authentication 114 14 14 1 Key 114 14 14 2 Functions 115 15 High Security Module HSM 118 16 Contact Information 119 17 Waste Disposal...

Page 6: ...r familiarise the user with the features of the reader The target group of this guide is specialist personal who install conﬁgure and put the reader into operation This document is valid for all Generation 3 Kathrein RFID readers Tip This document applies to all Generation 3 Kathrein RFID readers Even if it s referred to in the text as RRU 4xxx it is possible to control all other readers of the RR...

Page 7: ...ries Notice This signal word indicates a hazard which can lead to damage to property or malfunction Tip This signal word indicates useful tips and recommendations 3 3 Other Symbols Symbol Meaning Ⴋ Operating instruction 1 2 3 n Operating instructions in a ﬁxed order ᇜ Result of an operating instruction ᅛ Condition for the execution of an operating instruction Ⴠ List list entry Program connections ...

Page 8: ... speciﬁcally Part 15 203 pertaining antenna require ments of an intentional radiator Ź Make sure to use a 13 dBi or less patch antenna Ź Only use antennas which have been approved by the applicant The use of none approved anten na s may produce unwanted spurious emissions or excessive RF transmitting power which may lead to the violation of the FCC ISED limit and is prohibited 4 3 Final Output Pow...

Page 9: ...arried out by personnel authorised to perform them Ź Keep and operate the device out of reach of children Ź Do not modify remove or disﬁgure the notices and markings applied by the manufacturer Ź Only use the unit for the purpose intended by the manufacturer Ź Before each use make sure that the device is not damaged Ź Only use the power supply unit supplied Ź Make sure that the power supply cable ...

Page 10: ...nsmit the same information in the same location is expressly prohibited Changes or modiﬁcations not expressly approved by the party responsible for compliance could void the user s authority to operate the equipment To meet the certiﬁcation regulations according to Part 15 of the FCC regulations in the United States Ź Make sure the operation is subject to the following two conditions 1 this device...

Page 11: ...diation electromagnetic ﬁeld Ź As a result of the RF exposure information given in the FCC RF Radiation Exposure Statement p 11 and ISED RF Radiation Exposure Statement p 11 Ensure a minimum clearance of 35 cm between the antenna and the human body Ź Comply with the operating instructions for RFID antennas Ź In case of doubt make sure people with peacemakers contact the manufacturer of their peace...

Page 12: ...rasileiro o produto será fornecido com a conﬁguração de frequência 915 a 928 MHz 5 4 1 Safety Instructions NOTICE Risk of harmful radio communication interference Following corresponding tests it has been ascertained that this unit adheres to the limit values for class B digital units in accordance with Part 15 of the FCC regulations These limit values are intended to provide private user s system...

Page 13: ... 4 5 7 5 7 5 52010083 MIRA 100 circular FCC mid range antenna FCC 902 928 MHz 100 circular 2 5 dBiC 0 5 dBi 52010172 S MIRA 100 circular ETSI FCC short m id range antenna ETSI FCC 865 928 MHz 100 circular 10 dBiC 13 dBi 52010085 LORA FCC low range antenna FCC 902 928 MHz n a 15 dBi 52010092 U LORA ETSI FCC ultra low range antenna FCC 865 928 MHz n a 30 dBi 52010219 SMSH 30 30 ETSI FCC antenna modu...

Page 14: ... Any functional defect arising as a result is excluded from the warranty guarantee Kathrein accepts no liability if the customer fails to implement the precautions listed here In such cases any claims under the warranty guarantee are void Ź Before installing or servicing the reader make sure that the person concerned has read the manual and understood its contents ...

Page 15: ...e PC It is possible to attach additional information to the EPC for example the antenna which read it or the time at which it was read NOTICE The reader operates using the frequency hopping process to avoid faults and interference between readers Within the FCC area this procedure is mandatory The reader changes its transmission frequency randomly with equal distribution across the 52 available ch...

Page 16: ...and functionality when cascading SMSH antennas KRAI consists of a digital control bus which enables connection between the RFID reader and the RFID antennas to allow control and regulation tasks in remote antennas 7 2 1 WIRA 70 KRAI Polarisation Switch Antenna PLS Fig 2 PLS antennas connected to the reader With the KRAI PLS antenna built as a WiRa 70 antenna the polarisation can be switched static...

Page 17: ...r 865 868 MHz WRA 7070 KRAI FCC 52010336 70 70 circular 902 928 MHz Tip PLS antennas have 4 LEDs to visualise customer applications The LEDs will be supplied and controlled by the RRU 4xxx reader via the existing antenna cable Tip Note that for the internal antenna the ARU 3560 reader has all four polarisations already built in The ARU 3560 reader cannot switch polarisation for external antennas F...

Page 18: ...different applications The antenna is equipped with an intelligent bypass circuit that allows for cascading up to 8 SMSH antennas per reader port The control is done by a RRU 4xxx Kathrein RFID reader The KRAI control signals are transmitted via the standard antenna cable Type Order number Far ﬁeld half power beam width Polarisation Frequency range SMSH 3030 KRAI ETSI FCC antenna 52010258 60 60 ci...

Page 19: ... version of which is described in detail in the Communication Protocol Kathrein RFID UHF Readers Document Application Communication Protocol Kathrein RFID UHF Readers software development Conﬁguration Manual for Kathrein RFID UHF Readers commissioning Installation Manual for Kathrein Antennas setup and installation EPCglobal Gen2 Speciﬁcation1 software development Putty SSH Client http www putty o...

Page 20: ...ce has different communication interfaces depending on the variant The power supply is provided either by a 4 pin M12 panel connector in A coding or by PoE according to 802 3at 10 57 1 The Kathrein UHF RFID reader system RRU 4xxx is characterised by great ﬂexibility in regard to RFID applications One reason for it is the wide variety of reading devices compatible to each other which allows to sele...

Page 21: ...R AA N TNC LL440 ﬂex 15 m IP 67 ruggedised 52010090 R AC 3 SMA TNCR RG 58 3 m 52010208 R AC 05 SMA SMA RG 58 5 m 52010451 R AC 1 SMA FAKRA RFID antenna cable L 1 m IP40 FAKRA Z coded to SMA m right angle antenna plug 52010452 R AC 3 SMA FAKRA RFID antenna cable L 3 m IP40 FAKRA Z coded to SMA m right angle antenna plug 52010453 R AC 5 SMA FAKRA RFID antenna cable L 5 m IP40 FAKRA Z coded to SMA m ...

Page 22: ...3 m 52010360 R CC3 10 ETH RRU ARU Ethernet cable M12 RJ45 10 m 52020361 R CC3 03 ETH RRU ARU Ethernet cable M12 RJ45 3 m 52010362 R CC3 10 GPIO RRU ARU GPIO cable M12 10 m 52010363 R CC3 03 GPIO RRU ARU GPIO cable M12 3 m 52010373 R BC3 10 ETH RRU ARU Ethernet bridge cable 8 4 7 Reader AC DC Adapters Order number Type Description 52010364 R RPA3 24 VDC 90 W RRU ARU AC DC adapter 24 V 90 W 52010365...

Page 23: ...l pole mount kit for RRU 4xxx ARU 3xxx WRA 7070 antenna 52010368 MK PMA OGV pole mount adapter for 52010351 8 4 10 Reader Protective Covers and Caps Order number Type Description 52010376 PCS G3 IP67 protective cap for RRU 4xx and ARU 3xxx IP 67 52010367 R RVP3 VPP SS vandalism protective cover for RRU 4xxx and ARU 3xxx ...

Page 24: ...RU 4000 standard reader with all its connection options 9 1 1 Front View 1 3 2 Fig 5 RRU 4000 Displays No Name Function PWR indicates whether the reader is on see also 12 5 Reading the PWR LED Indications p 45 ཱ basic LEDs A1 A4 indicate if an RF signal is on for antennas 1 4 default setting Ź For other functions of the basic LEDs see Selecting Functions p 88 ི high end LEDs1 see LED p 87 Related ...

Page 25: ...ུ GPIO to detect external sensors and to control external actors see also GPIO Functions p 90 ཱུ PWR to connect to a DC power supply 10 30 V ྲྀ LAN2 second Ethernet port Ɣ to connect to a sub network Ɣ to connect external Ethernet devices ཷ LAN PoE main Ethernet port with PoE connectivity Ɣ to control the reader Ɣ to provide power supply over Ethernet 1 In the ARU 3xxx readers there are only 3 anten...

Page 26: ...ocation 1 24 V DC 2 GND 3 GND 4 24 V DC Bear in mind that only power supply units with LPS Limited Power Source or NEC Class 2 power supply units are approved for operation with the device This means that the secondary side of the power supply unit is limited to a power of maximum 100 W N oubliez pas que seuls les blocs d alimentation avec LPS Limited Power Source source d alimentation lim itée ou...

Page 27: ...rrupted or there is a malfunction Ź Only use shielded cables M12 X coded 8 pin female 1 2 3 5 8 7 6 4 Pin Allocation 1 TX PoE 1 2 TX PoE 1 3 RX PoE 2 4 RX PoE 2 5 PoE 1 6 PoE 2 7 PoE 3 8 PoE 4 Buzzer Furthermore the reader is ﬁtted with a buzzer which in addition to the LED indicates successful booting 1 x short or an error 2 x long ...

Page 28: ...nction PWR indicates whether the reader is on see also 12 5 Reading the PWR LED Indications p 45 ཱ basic LEDs A1 A4 indicate if an RF signal is on for antennas 1 4 default setting Ź For other functions of the basic LEDs see Selecting Functions p 88 Related topics 12 5 Reading the PWR LED Indications p 45 ...

Page 29: ...nd to control external actors see also GPIO Functions p 90 ུ LAN PoE main Ethernet port with PoE connectivity Ɣ to control the reader Ɣ to provide power supply over Ethernet ཱུ PWR to connect to a DC power supply 10 30 V ྲྀ 4 x tapped holes to connect to the MK WPM3 OSS Outdoor wall pole mount kit order number 52010351 or 52010262 ཷ LAN PoE 8 x tapped holes to connect to the MK SHM 4IP shelf mountin...

Page 30: ...ND 2 24 V DC Bear in mind that only power supply units with LPS Limited Power Source or NEC Class 2 power supply units are approved for operation with the device This means that the secondary side of the power supply unit is limited to a power of maximum 100 W N oubliez pas que seuls les blocs d alimentation avec LPS Limited Power Source source d alimentation lim itée ou les blocs d alimentation N...

Page 31: ...er is either interrupted or there is a malfunction Ź Only use shielded cables RJ45 8 pole 1 8 Pin Allocation 1 TX PoE1 2 TX PoE1 3 RX PoE2 4 RX PoE2 5 PoE1 6 PoE2 7 PoE3 8 PoE4 Buzzer Furthermore the reader is ﬁtted with a buzzer which in addition to the LED indicates successful booting 1 x short or an error 2 x long ...

Page 32: ...the unit for appropriate dissipation of the heat generated by the unit Ź Do not expose the unit to inadmissible heat or ﬁre Ź Do not install the device close to the sources of heat e g heating Ź Do not place anything with a naked ﬂame on the device Ź Make sure that the maximum operating temperature from 20 to 55 C is not exceeded Ź Make sure that the support surface has a sufficient load bearing c...

Page 33: ... RRU 4xxx and ARU 3xxx Readers 10 2 1 Wall Mounting At the rear panel the reader has threaded holes Ź See the drawing below for the dimensions of the holes 85 100 100 140 100 170 M6 Fig 9 RRU 4xxx and ARU 3xxx dimensions rear view ...

Page 34: ...2 Wall Pole Mounting For ease of installation a bracket is available as an accessory to mount the reader on a wall 52010351 or 52010262 or a mast 52010351 and 52010368 300 300 71 Fig 10 RRU 4xxx and ARU 3xxx dimensions front and side view ...

Page 35: ...lling the ARU 2400 Reader 10 3 1 Wall Mounting At the rear panel the reader has 4 threaded holes Ź See the drawing below for the dimensions of the holes 100 100 M6 100 100 230 24 M4 268 Fig 11 ARU 2400 dimensions rear view ...

Page 36: ...r has 8 threaded holes for the MS SHM 4IP shelf mounting kit available as an accessory order number 52010479 for mounting on ITEM or Bosch Rexroth shelves Ź See the drawing below for the dimensions of the 8 holes 100 100 M6 100 100 230 24 M4 268 Fig 12 ARU 2400 dimensions rear view ...

Page 37: ...n Frame Structure 5A LL SS FF DD DD P1 P2 5A start code for synchronisation LL number of bytes in the frame not including the start code SS status byte FF frame number DD user data P1 16 bit checksum low byte P2 16 bit checksum high byte Start Code and Synchronisation The start code is used to synchronise the recipient to the sender Furthermore the recipient synchronises to the start of a frame wh...

Page 38: ...ta blocks from 1 to a maximum of 64000 bytes 11 2 LLRP Protocol Based on the TCP communication protocol the Kathrein RFID reader with the Linux operating system can handle the so called Low Level Reader Protocol LLRP It is a communication interface between an RFID reader and a LLRP enabled application software standardised by EPCglobal http www epcglobalinc org standards llrp The default port for ...

Page 39: ... the KBRP frame it must be doubled 0XAA 0xAA 0xAA Port The TCP communication port is the port 4007 Example The frame ASyncGetEPCs is shown here as an example The ID for this command is 0x0111 which makes the frame look as follows 0xAA 0xBB 0x01 0x01 0x11 0x01 0xAA 0xCC Extended Block Structure If a data block to be transmitted exceeds 16 kB it is necessary to subdivide into several 16 kB blocks Th...

Page 40: ...0 0x00 0x00 0x11 0x01 0xA5 Extended Block Structure If a data block to be transmitted exceeds 16 kB it is necessary to subdivide into several 16 kB blocks These blocks receive a block number and the ﬁrst block contains the total data length It is necessary to conﬁrm the reception of each block by means of an answer First block Start block number always 0 4 byte total data length data block end All...

Page 41: ...l isolation is not required the power supply can also be taken directly from the reader NOTICE Risk of malfunction Ź Note that the load per channel is limited to a maximum of 0 5 A and the total load across all the channels must not exceed 1 5 A If the auxiliary voltage of the GPIO port of the reader is used the load can be 1 1 A as a maximum The inputs and outputs are designed for 30 V DC max Ź F...

Page 42: ...put 2 Input 3 Input 4 Input 1 Input 2 Input 3 Input 4 INP_CMN UB_extern GND_extern RRU ARU xxxx Fig 14 DC isolated inputs Input 1 Input 2 Input 3 Input 4 Input 1 Input 2 Input 3 Input 4 INP_CMN UB GND RRU ARU xxxx Fig 15 Inputs not DC isolated ...

Page 43: ...rations OUTPUT 1 OUTPUT 2 OUTPUT 3 OUTPUT 4 OUTPUT 1 OUTPUT 2 OUTPUT 3 OUTPUT 4 OUT_CMN RRU ARU xxxx UB_extern GND_extern Fig 16 DC isolated outputs OUTPUT 1 OUTPUT 2 OUTPUT 3 OUTPUT 4 OUTPUT 1 OUTPUT 2 OUTPUT 3 OUTPUT 4 OUT_CMN UB GND RRU ARU xxxx Fig 17 Outputs not DC isolated ...

Page 44: ...O interface cable The digital inputs and outputs are provided via a printed circuit board connector 5 pole with open screw connection with tension sleeve It is possible to use an industrial isolated wire with a diameter of 1mm The inputs are electrically isolated from the power supply of the reader The outputs are also DC isolated from the power supply of the reader and have a common pin GND OUT_C...

Page 45: ...s the ARU 2400 reader has three antenna connections that are of the FAKRA design Ź Only use the cables from the accessories list or an equivalent cable for this connection 12 4 Turning the Reader On and Off Ź Connect the reader to the power supply via a PWR or to a PoE source according to the 802 3at standard via LAN POE input ᇜ The reader is on 12 5 Reading the PWR LED Indications The reader has ...

Page 46: ...50 MB including Microsoft Net Framework 4 2 GB including Microsoft Net Framework 4 13 2 Installing the Software Tip The setup and the ReaderStart software might look different depending on the operating system and the soft ware version The following images show the installation of the ReaderStart V3 During the installation it is checked whether the necessary requirements for the installation are m...

Page 47: ...to access this infor mation in the Info drop down menu in the task bar 6 Click on Next to continue or Cancel to exit the setup ᇜ The screen on the left with the licence agreement appears 7 Select I accept the agreement to continue or I do not accept the agreement to exit the setup ᇜ If you have accepted the license agreement in Step 7 the window on the left appears 8 Select the destination ﬁle for...

Page 48: ...lick Next ᇜ The screen on the left appears 11 Tick the box Create a desktop icon if you would like to include the icon in the Windows Quick Launch on the desktop The default setting is to create no icons 12 Click Next ᇜ The summary of all the installation tasks appears 13 Click Install to start the installation 14 If during the installation the software requests to restart the computer do so ...

Page 49: ...reader to obtain an IP address automatically For this service referred to as DHCP it is necessary to have an appropriate DHCP server operating in the network Ź For more information contact your network administrator Ź Make sure that the IP addresses of the control computer and the reader are in the same IP range but are not the same Ensure that the network mask is identical Establishing the Connec...

Page 50: ...low only secure SSH connection with an encrypted transmission to the reader check the box next to the lock symbol ཱི in Fig 21 see also Establishing a Secure Connection p 68 5 6 Fig 22 Establishing connection to the reader search for readers The following steps describe establishing the connection for readers with an IP address 3 In the Ethernet block click Search for Readers ི in Fig 21 ᇜ The scre...

Page 51: ...terface returns to the main view In the Ethernet block the IP address in the ﬁgure on the left and the reader type ཱ are shown 7 Click Connect to connect the reader ᇜ In the Ethernet block the Search for Readers and Con nect buttons are greyed out It is possible to dis connect the reader by clicking Disconnect in the ﬁgure below The Communication Conﬁguration Linux Module ཱ and status messages fro...

Page 52: ...rating the Reader Using the ReaderStart Software p 67 Ɣ status ﬁeld containing messages from the reader and the program ཱི see Status Field p 66 Tip The contents of the tabs are considerably large and are therefore described in a separate chapter see Oper ating the Reader Using the ReaderStart Software p 67 13 4 1 Menu Bar By means of the menu bar it is possible to customise the programme to the us...

Page 53: ...ration to ﬁle ᇜ The following window appears 1 3 2 4 5 6 Fig 25 File save reader conﬁguration to ﬁle Parameter set all available parameter sets from 0 7 Ź Click the check box to select or unselect the parameter set ᇜ The selected parameter set is marked with a tick If the parameter is not selected the check box is empty ཱ All selects all parameter sets from 0 7 ི None unselects all parameter sets ...

Page 54: ...ogue appears 2 Select the ﬁle name and the directory in which the conﬁguration ﬁle will be saved 3 Click OK ᇜ The progress bar ཱི shows the progress of the save operation ᇜ After the ﬁle has been saved a pop up message Save reader conﬁguration to ﬁle Saving done appears 4 Click OK to close the pop up message ᇜ The software returns to the view shown in Fig 25 p 53 5 Click the X at the top right hand...

Page 55: ...t the directory and the conﬁguration ﬁle from which the parameter sets will be loaded 3 Click Open ᇜ The parameter sets saved in the conﬁguration ﬁle are loaded and are marked with a red tick ᇜ The progress bar ུ shows the progress of the save operation ཱ Parameter set see Parameter set p 53 ི All see All p 53 ཱི None see None p 53 ུ Progress shows the progress of the load operation by means of the...

Page 56: ...of the save operation ᇜ After the conﬁguration has been loaded a pop up message Load reader conﬁgura tion from ﬁle Loading done appears 2 Click OK to close the pop up message ᇜ The software returns to the view shown in Fig 26 p 55 3 Click the X at the top right hand corner or press Escape on your PC keyboard to leave the dialogue ླྀ Cancel cancels the loading process Close Ź Click Close to close th...

Page 57: ...bs to default settings and reduces the size of the pro gramme to the window size ི Change path to log ﬁle opens a dialogue to create a new folder select a new directory to save logs ཱི Show No Tag as warning activates or deactivates the warning yellow in the status ﬁeld if no tag has been detected in the antenna ﬁeld see Status Field p 66 If this parameter is not checked the absence of the tag is s...

Page 58: ...t the ﬁle with the current ﬁrmware 3 Having selected the update ﬁle click Update ུ ᇜ The reader ﬁrmware is being updated The update progress is shown by means of the progress bar ི 7KH VWDWXV ཱི shows what the software is currently performing e g Preparing Transferring data 2588672 of 211353360 bytes Flashing OLFN Cancel ཱུ WR VWRS WKH XSGDWH SURFHVV 4 IWHU WKH XSGDWH KDV EHHQ FRPSOHWHG FOLFN Reboot...

Page 59: ... Set PC date and time on reader loads the system date and time shown in onto the reader ི Current date of the reader shows the current date of the reader 1 To change the reader s date either type the new date into the line or click on the calender symbol in the line and select the date 2 Click Set adjusted date and time on reader ཱི Current time of the reader shows the current date of the reader 1 ...

Page 60: ...ux password 1 To change the password click Change Linux password ᇜ The following pop up window appears 2 Type in the old password 3 Type in the new password 4 Conﬁrm the new password 5 Click OK to change the password or Click Cancel to stop the process ཱ FTP Start starts FTP server Stop stops FTP server ི Firmware update Linux module updates Linux module ﬁrmware Ź Proceed as described in Updating ...

Page 61: ...r retrieves the information from the NTP server and gets the time from the network thus setting the internal time settings of the reader Ź Click NTP settings ཱ ᇜ The following dialogue opens 1 3 2 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 NTP server enters an NTP server address e g 0 pool ntp org ཱ Interval sets the interval in the range 0 4204967295 s to synchronise the time with the NTP server ི Time shows the current dat...

Page 62: ...ers the DNS server address ཱ DNS server 2 enters the DNS server address ི DNS server 3 enters the DNS server address ཱི Search contains the local domain name ུ Status shows the status of the last performed operation in the DNS server settings dialogue ཱུ Get DNS server reads the DNS server settings currently set in the system ྲྀ Set DNS server sets the DNS server ...

Page 63: ...tware and links to the licenses ཱ Reader info shows information about the reader see Showing Reader Information p 64 ི License key automatically reader the license key and show various factory set reader parameters see Showing License Key Information p 65 ཱི Reader error status reads the error status of the reader and shows all errors that are outstanding in the status ﬁeld ...

Page 64: ...re version ི Serial number shows the reader s serial number ཱི Type number shows the reader s type number ུ CPU module shows the CPU module number ཱུ Reader uptime shows time during which the reader has been running ྲྀ Linux uptime shows time during which the Linux module has been running ུ Details shows details about the reader ླྀ Refresh updates the reader and Linux uptime ཹ Save saves the reader in...

Page 65: ...icense key to KATHREIN Solutions GmbH 1 To do so click Save license to ﬁle LQ Fig 30 2 Select the ﬁle name and the destination directory 3 Send the ﬁle to KATHREIN Solutions GmbH To send the ﬁle to KATHREIN Solutions GmbH 1 Go to the support portal of the KATHREIN Solutions GmbH at https support kathrein solutions com 2 If you do not have an account yet create an account 3 After the successful reg...

Page 66: ... top of the list Tip Ź To expand the status ﬁeld section and see more status messages click on the boundary line between the sections red line in Fig 31 and drag it upwards Ź To minimise the status ﬁeld section drag the line downwards The status ﬁeld has a context menu which allows to deactivate warnings information and errors in the status ﬁeld It is also possible to delete status messages 1 2 3 ...

Page 67: ...nections up to version USB 2 0 only available in the ERU ETG E4 order number 52010190 and ERU ETG U4 reader order number 52010191 Ɣ Ethernet for connections via TCP IP Ɣ Communication Conﬁguration Linux Module section to change the Ethernet setting see Communication Conﬁguration Linux Module p 70 When the connection has been established the program retrieves the information about the installed Lin...

Page 68: ...5 If you want to use the key ﬁle instead click the box at Key ﬁle ི ᇜ A pop up window to select the key ﬁle opens 6 Select the key ﬁle 7 Click OK to establish the secure connection ᇜ It is possible to conﬁgure the secure connection under Linux module Connection conﬁg see also Linux Module p 60 Loading Factory Default Settings When resetting the reader to factory default the ReaderStart sends out a...

Page 69: ... the factory default settings ᇜ The status messages informing about the progress of the reset process are shown in the Status ﬁeld of the pop up window see examples in the ﬁgure above 8 After the factory default settings have been loaded onto the reader click Close Selecting a Favourite Reader If there are many readers in the system and the user establishes connection to one reader more frequently...

Page 70: ...ser to select it 14 1 2 Communication Conﬁguration Linux Module Communication Conﬁguration Linux Module has different options depending on the reader type Selecting a Linux Module Option 1 Click on the symbol ᇜ The following options appear 2 Click on one of the four options to change the settings General 1 2 3 5 4 Fig 35 Communication conﬁguration Linux model general ...

Page 71: ...If the connection to the reader is broken the reader shuts down the connection If this parameter is deactivated 0 ms the socket is shut down only when the reader is restarted If no keep alive time is set it may happen that the reader cannot take up any further connections because the existing connections have not been properly shut down e g following a breakage in the wire In this case it is neces...

Page 72: ...the automatic issuing of an IP address by a DHCP server if the network has a conﬁgured DNS server it is also possible to use the host name of the reader ཱུ IPv6 enters the second IPv6 address the ﬁrst IPv6 address is the link local address ྲྀ Status shows the current reader IP address eth0 ཷ Get gets the current status ླྀ Set saves changes If the data relevant to the current connection e g IP address...

Page 73: ...ID shows the name of the access point ྲྀ MAC shows the MAC address of the access point ཷ Frequency shows the frequency of the Wi Fi connection ླྀ IsOnline shows whether the Wi Fi module is online ཹ Get status reads the current status of the Wi Fi module ེ Go online establishes the Wi Fi connection ཻ Go offline interrupts the Wi Fi connection ོ Go online at start activates or deactivates the Wi Fi co...

Page 74: ...lable access points 3 f g adds the SSID of the selected access point to updates the list of available access points ྀ edits the selected access point 3 b d 1 c e changes the SSID of the access point changes the password of the access point only active when securely connected opens the list with available access points edits the access point cancels the operation ཱྀ deletes the selected access point...

Page 75: ...ibility of the reader for other devices ཱི PIN sets the PIN for the Bluetooth connection the default PIN is 4007 ུ Get reads the current Bluetooth conﬁguration ཱུ Set sets the conﬁguration of the Bluetooth connection only active when securely connected ྲྀ Status shows the status of the Bluetooth connection ཷ Remote devices shows the remote devices connected to the reader ླྀ Get status shows the status...

Page 76: ...rovider ཱི User name enters the access point name from the provider ུ Password enters the access point name from the provider ཱུ Get reads the current conﬁguration of the GSM module ྲྀ Set sets the conﬁguration of the GSM module only active when securely connected ཷ Status shows the status of the GSM connection ླྀ Type shows the GSM connection type ཹ Quality shows the quality of the GSM connection ེ F...

Page 77: ...e shows the temperature of the GSM module ཿ IsOnline shows whether the GSM module is online ྀ Get status reads the current status of the GSM module ཱྀ Go online establishes the GSM connection Go offline interrupts the GSM connection ...

Page 78: ...of the Kathrein RFID Reader for a selected application e 1 2 3 a b c d 4 Fig 40 Application Tab Application selects between the available applications represented visually by means of labelled pictograms Ź Click on a pictogram to select the application ᇜ The selected pictogram is marked in a darker colour in Fig 40 it is Conveyor 2 m s ...

Page 79: ...ed are detected This way the probability that all tags are read is increased saves the settings that have been made as the settings for the selected application in the selected parameter set The programme resets the settings to the factory settings ﬁrst thus overwriting the previous conﬁguration If the settings have been reset the Apply settings button brieﬂy glows green and a success message is d...

Page 80: ...tags in the antenna ﬁeld as they pass through a gate Vehicle Barrier Identification Ɣ for detecting and describing individual tags in the antenna ﬁeld which are not moving Ɣ the distance between the tags and the antenna must be less than a few metres Vehicle Identification Ɣ for detecting and describing multiple tags in the antenna ﬁeld which are moving at a speed of more than 14 m s Ɣ the distanc...

Page 81: ...signal strength of the tag response ུ RSSI DBM shows the RSSI value in dBm ཱུ Reads shows how many times this tag has been read successfully ྲྀ Cycles indicates how often an inventory has been started ཷ First read timestamp of the ﬁrst tag reading ླྀ Last read timestamp of the last tag reading ཹ Frequency shows the used transmission frequency ེ Tag phase shows the tag phase in form of a rotating poin...

Page 82: ...ld or left it This way the time required for communication between the reader and the client is minimised The timing of when a tag was reliably read in the ﬁeld and when the tag no longer appears in the ﬁeld can be deﬁned more precisely using parameters Ź For more details of the ObservedThresholdCnt and ObservedTimeoutCnt parameters refer to the Con ﬁgurational manual reader ི Listen for event dea...

Page 83: ... 1 Fig 43 Basic reading statistics Tags per second displays the current reading performance ཱ Total tags in list shows the total number of tags in the list ི Unique Tags count shows the number of unique tags detected in the inventory ...

Page 84: ...liseconds after which the result lists of an inventory is sent to the PC To keep the time between inventories as short as possible in the synchronous mode data trans mission between the inventories can be dispensed with That means that the reader saves all the tags that it ﬁnds in the ﬁeld in its internal RAM and sends them to the PC after the time set in Bulk reading ཱི Save to ﬁle saves the data ...

Page 85: ... high 200 it is possible to speed up the detection of the tags by commanding the reader to change to new Select command see EPCglobal Gen2 Speciﬁcation It is pos sible to test it in the menu Expert Settings Ź Check TransmitSelectIfNoFilterIsOn ᇜ A select is sent in each inventory i e all the tags that are deﬁned at this time in the ﬁeld are reset However it can happen that the tags that have been ...

Page 86: ... different beam positions Each individual position can be selected ﬁx or all selected positions are exchanged dynamically The user will get a read result with an indication of the position for the run of a tag left centre right Using the time sequence of the reading results of these positions it is possible to determine the direction of a tran sponder Tags which do not change their position are ca...

Page 87: ...ig 48 LED Live shows the changed LED colour in real time ཱ enters and shows RGB values ི Function selects between the functions described in Selecting Functions p 88 ཱི First antenna the ﬁrst antenna for the selected function ུ Last antenna the last antenna for the selected function ཱུ Turn off time sets the time for how long LED is on for the selected function ྲྀ Brightness live changes the LED brig...

Page 88: ...sful ུ Antenna error LED lights up for Turn off time milliseconds if a error occurs at the antenna First antenna to Last antenna ཱུ Tag found LED lights up for Turn off time milliseconds as soon as a tag has been found at the antenna First antenna to Last antenna ྲྀ Tag operation success LED lights up for Turn off time milliseconds if a tag operation at the antenna First antenna to Last antenna has ...

Page 89: ...the number of the detected tags by means of the drop down menu ི All Antenna 1 4 selects whether the tag has to be read on all antennas or only one antenna ཱི Start LED bar measures the signal strength ུ Stop LED bar stops the measurement ཱུ RSSI Min RSSI Max RSSI shows the current RSSI value as well as the minimum and the maximum RSSI values ྲྀ shows the read range by means of the coloured bars gree...

Page 90: ...r This list can then be linked to various inputs Fig 51 GPIO The GPIO tab is divided into 3 sections IO Conﬁguration consisting of Input and Output Test Input and Test Output Action List and Assign Input to Action List which are described in the following chapters 14 6 1 IO Conﬁguration 2 8 1 3 4 5 6 7 9 Fig 52 GPIO IO Conﬁguration Invert logical input negates the electrical input signal and uses ...

Page 91: ...the respective input has been checked at IO Conﬁguration LQ Fig 52 p 90 ཱ Read inputs reads the inputs once ི Read inputs cyclic start stop reads the inputs in a loop stops the reading Test Output ཱི Output selects output 1 4 by means of the drop down menu Ź In order to use this function select the Protocol access function for the respective output see IO Conﬁguration p 90 and Selecting Functions p...

Page 92: ...GmbH ReaderStart v3 into the Windows search ﬁeld ི Add action adds action the action is shown under Details ུ ཱི Clear action list deletes actions no actions are seen under Details ུ Tip To remove only one action from the list 1 Select an action from the list shown under Details 1 Right click on the selected action ᇜ The pop up message Remove entry appears 2 Click on Remove entry to delete the acti...

Page 93: ...ed to the XML ﬁle containing the actions or some changes have been made in it The ReaderStart creates a directory in which the system variables are stored in the folder userprofile Documents KATH REIN Solutions GmbH ReaderStart v3 It is possible to edit the ActionlistActions xml ﬁle manually using a text editor Ź To see the individual actions refer to the Conﬁguration Protocol The approximately 15...

Page 94: ... reader conﬁguration It is possible to save all settings for the transmission power the antenna multiplex conﬁguration the RF settings and the air interface parameters Other parameters can be changed in Expert settings 2 Ź For more information about the individual parameters refer to Reader Conﬁguration Manual for Kathrein RFID UHF Readers 2 3 1 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Fig 56 ...

Page 95: ...e frequency range 865 868 MHz for Europe or 902 928 MHz for USA Canada In Europe the number of channels to be used can be limited For this reason it is necessary to check the related check box for each channel the reader is to use This way it is possible to avoid using speciﬁc channels on which there is interference ྀ Initial Q reﬂects the number of tags expected in the ﬁeld see also Chapter Initi...

Page 96: ...Bi and dBic The units dBi and dBic refer to an isotropic spherical radiator where dBic refers to a circularly polarised isotropic radiator and dBi to a linearly polarised isotropic radiator In the European approval area the radiated power must not exceed 2 W ERP This ﬁgure refers to a half wave dipole The relationship shown below exists between an isotropic radiator dBi and a half wave dipole GHW ...

Page 97: ...ter set and copy parameter set Default Param eter Set selects a default parameter set ཱ Set sets the selected default parameter set in the reader 14 8 2 Copy Parameter Set The Copy parameter set allows one parameter set to be copied into another ི Source param eter set selects the parameter set to be copied ཱི Target parameter set selects the parameter set into which the source parameter set is to ...

Page 98: ...t is possible to ﬁlter certain tags e g to only read tags with the deﬁned data in the respec tive memory banks It is possible to set up to 32 ﬁlters 7 8 9 10 11 12 2 4 5 1 2 3 4 5 6 Fig 60 Expert settings 2 select ﬁlter settings Filter selects a ﬁlter ཱ Target selects the tag target session Ź Make sure the target matches the session set in Fig 57 p 97 ི Action selects the action see also EPCglobal...

Page 99: ... Filter 2 Select the target ཱ Make sure the target matches the session set in Fig 57 p 97 3 Select an action ི In the example the action is set to 100 see also EPCglobal Gen 2 Speciﬁcation 4 Select the EPC memory bank ཱི 5 Activate the select ﬁlter ུ 6 Refer to the EPCglobal Gen 2 Speciﬁcation to check from which bit pointer the ﬁlter will search for the value according to which you would like to ﬁ...

Page 100: ...accordance with the EPC Gen2 standard it is possible for example to read and write tags as well as set and change tag passwords The user interface consists of the ﬁelds Get all Tags Password for Operation Write EPC Read data Write data Change Password Lock and Kill that are described in the following chapters Fig 62 Test Gen2 functions 14 9 1 Get All Tags 1 2 Fig 63 Test Gen2 functions Get all EPC...

Page 101: ... 3 4 1 Fig 65 TestGen2 write EPC New EPC enters an EPC in the hexadecimal format Make sure to comply with the maximum EPC length supported by the tag If the max imum length is exceeded the tag will return an error ཱ Auto increment activates or deactivates increasing the EPC by one with each successful writing process ི Write EPC to selected tag writes the EPC on the selected tag ཱི Write EPC to tag...

Page 102: ...unt enters the number of words to read ཱི Data UTF8 shows the data in the UTF8 format ུ Data ISO 17367 shows the data in the ISO 17367 format ཱུ Read data of selected tag reads data from the selected tag ྲྀ Read complete memory bank of selected tag reads the complete memory bank of the selected tag up to 255 words ཷ Read data of all tags reads data from all tags in the ﬁeld If the tags in the ﬁeld ha...

Page 103: ...nters the data mask The data mask allows only individual bits on the tag to be changed ཱུ Write data to selected tag writes data to the selected tag in the ﬁeld ྲྀ Write masked data to selected tag writes the masked data to the selected tag ཷ Write data to all tags write data to all tags in the ﬁeld Ź If the data are written to all tags in the ﬁeld make sure all the tags have the same conﬁguration l...

Page 104: ... 1 Fig 68 TestGen2 change password New password sets the new password in the hexadecimal format for the selected tag ཱ New kill password sets the new password to deactivate the selected tag ི Set password on selected tag replaces the old password by the new password for the selected tag ཱི Set kill password on selected tag replaces the old deactivation password by the new deactivation password for ...

Page 105: ...r writeable from any state Ź For more details see EPCGlobal Gen2 Speciﬁcation ཱ Access password speciﬁes how the access password is accessible Ź Select an option from the drop down menu see the options at Ź For more details see EPCGlobal Gen2 Speciﬁcation ི EPC memory bank speciﬁes how the EPC memory bank is accessible Ź Select one of the following options from the drop down menu No change the EPC...

Page 106: ... make sure that all the tags have the same password 14 9 8 Kill Ź To deactivate a tag set a deactivation password that is not 0 see ཱ in Fig 68 p 104 After a kill command the tag will be unusable 2 1 Fig 70 TestGen2 kill Kill selected tag executes a kill command on the selected tag ཱ Kill all tags executes a kill command on all tags in the ﬁeld ...

Page 107: ...cted KRAI antenna ི Initialise port runs a query of the antennas on this port these ports ཱི Antenna Id shows the antenna ID ུ Description shows the description of the antenna ཱུ Number of antennas shows the number of the antennas connected to the port ྲྀ Frequency range shows the frequency range the antenna operates in Global EU FCC ཷ Revision shows the hardware version of the antenna ླྀ Antenna prop...

Page 108: ...are integrated in the antennas it is possible to control conﬁgure the LEDs 2 3 1 4 5 6 7 8 Fig 73 KRAI LED LED 1 4 selects the function of the LED 1 4 Ź For functions see Chapter Selecting Functions p 88 ཱ Turn off time sets the turn off time for LED ི Get LED conﬁg shows the current LED conﬁguration ཱི Set LED conﬁg sets the new LED conﬁguration ུ LED selects between LED 1 4 ཱུ Duration sets the du...

Page 109: ...me attenuation cable length Otherwise the TX power of the antennas that is derived from the jumper cable attenuation is not calculated correctly 14 10 4 Direction 2 3 1 Fig 75 KRAI direction Left Centre Right sets the direction of the antenna If there are several types of direction selected at the same time the antenna conﬁguration changes after every inventory ཱ Get direction reads the antenna di...

Page 110: ...start point can be deﬁned for the application in this way whereby a light barrier or inductive ground contact is queried in order to activate the reading process Skidata The Skidata app is a software based solution that provides simple and easy interface integration of Kathrein RFID readers with Ethernet in the latest generation of Skidata barrier systems With the Skidata app the reader will becom...

Page 111: ...zip format extract a tar ﬁle Make sure not to extract the tar ﬁle 4 Start the ReaderStart software 5 Go to the AppManager tab 6 Click on Install app ᇜ A pop up window to select the ﬁle with the app opens 7 Select the ﬁle with the app Make sure it is the tar ﬁle 8 Click Open ᇜ A pop up message with the progress bar for the installation process appears for the duration of the installation After the ...

Page 112: ...l change transponder is not moved Tags shows the number of the tags present in the antenna ﬁeld ཱ Refresh scans tags in the antenna ﬁeld anew ི Start starts TagScan ཱི Stop stops TagScan ུ RSSI activates deactivates the presentation of the RSSI value in the graph ཱུ Phase activates deactivates the presentation of the phase in the graph ྲྀ shows the phase in form of the rotating arrow ཷ shows the curr...

Page 113: ... TagScan phase shift transponder is moved Transponder movement is indicated by the amplitude of the phase The RSSI value changes in small steps The direction of the movement is indicated by means of the rotating pointer ...

Page 114: ...cts the frequency area ཱ Antenna 1 n selects an antenna from the drop down menu ི Start starts SpectralScan ཱི Stop stops SpectralScan ུ Reset maxima resets maxima If there is more than one reader spectral scan shows which channels might be occupied by other readers In Fig 78 p 113 the channels 4 10 and 13 are occupied by other readers If the user is not satisﬁed with the reading results and the in...

Page 115: ...rd see Password for Operation p 101 ཱ Get all tags reads all the tags in the antenna ﬁeld ི Tags shows all the detected tags ཱི Key see Key p 115 necessary for TAM1 and TAM2 ུ Functions see Functions p 116 14 14 1 Key 1 4 2 3 Fig 81 Authentication Key Key 0 Key 1 selects a key for the authentication Key 0 is only used for TAM1 Key 1 is used for both TAM1 and TAM2 ཱ Key enters the key selected in ི ...

Page 116: ...ted tag ི Activate key activates key 0 or key 1 on the selected tag Untraceable 1 7 4 2 3 5 6 Fig 83 Authentication untraceable U asserts or deasserts U in XPC_W1 see EPCglobal Gen2 Speciﬁcation p 106 ཱ EPC shows or hides memory above the visible EPC ི New EPC length sets new EPC length in words ཱི TID Show shows the complete TID Truncated shows the ﬁrst two words in case of E2 and only one word in...

Page 117: ...ted tag is authentic The tag has at least one activated key Key 0 or Key 1 1 4 2 3 5 Fig 84 Authentication key TAM1 Key see Key p 115 Authenticate selected tag the reader sends the authenticate command to the selected tag a pop up message appears whether the authentication was successful or failed ཱ RRU ൺ Tag shows the random number sent to the tag by the reader ི RRU Tag shows the encrypted rando...

Page 118: ...tion key TAM2 Proﬁle selects a proﬁle the data of which is shown ཱ Offset sets the offset for ུ ི Block count sets how many bits rare to be read ཱི Protection mode selects the protection mode for the TAM2 authentication operation ུ Read data of selected tag reads the data of the selected tag provided the correct key 1 has been entered at Key ཱུ Data shows data read in ུ ...

Page 119: ...119 of 122 15 Contact Information Kathrein Solutions GmbH Lise Meitner Straße 7 85737 Ismaning Phone 49 0 89 286 7436 0 Fax 49 0 8036 90 831 69 Email iot info kathrein solutions com ...

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