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USE OF PINPOINT COMMANDER (PPC)
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1.
BROADCAST..
The PPC broadcast attempts to wake up all tags/collars that belong to the group that was called. Once a tag
from the group receives this call it waits for further instructions from the PPC on a separate communication
channel. If the tag from a different group receives this call it will ignore it.
In this example, the PPC is calling tags from group A1 and the call will be
finished in 7 seconds.
2.
FIND TAGS
After broadcasting a ‘wake up’ message and receiving responses from the tags
within range, the PPC is ready to communicate with tags that responded. In
the manual mode it waits for the user to select the tag/collar ID to
communicate with first. In the automatic mode it chooses the order in which
to download data or status.
If no tag was found, then the list is empty and the PPC stops data download
operation.
In the example on the left, the PPC is initializing data download from tag ID
123. If initialization fails and the time-out is reached, this tag will be skipped
and the PPC will move to the next tag on the list, or in manual mode it will wait
for further instructions from the user.
3.
DOWNLOADING..
If the download initiation is successful, the PPC starts to download data from
the tag. The actual volume of data collected in the tag, the volume of
downloaded data and the number of retries will be dynamically presented.
When the data download is completed, the PPC will move to the next tag on
the active list until all tags have been downloaded. In case of manual mode, it
will wait for further instructions from the user.