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HHU500

 

User Guide

 

Revision 1.1

 

 

 

 

May 2013

 

 

 

Summary of Contents for HHU500

Page 1: ...HHU500 User Guide Revision 1 1 May 2013 ...

Page 2: ...LTING FROM LOSS OF USE DATA PROFITS REVENUES OR CUSTOMERS ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF INFORMATION CONTAINED IN THIS DOCUMENT TAGSYS does not and shall not warrant that this product system equipment will be resistant to all possible attacks and shall not incur and disclaims any liability in this respect Even if each product is compliant with current security stand...

Page 3: ...ume any previous knowledge of Radio Frequency Identification RFID technology Conventions If you need assistance Please contact your nearest TAGSYS Sales Representative or the TAGSYS Welcome Desk at Telephone 33 0 4 42 18 89 00 Fax 33 0 4 42 18 89 01 E Mail info tagsysrfid com Website http www tagsysrfid com Contact for Comments We welcome your feedback to help us provide high quality documentation...

Page 4: ...tle and your company Quality Issues TAGSYS implements stringent quality controls at all stages of its manufacturing process However should you find a defect with this product please notify your TAGSYS Quality Service representative using the dedicated Product Return Form Telephone 33 0 4 42 18 89 00 E Mail rma tagsysrfid com ...

Page 5: ...CTIVES _____________________________________________ 9 2 2 2 IN USA FCC DIRECTIVE _________________________________________________________ 10 2 3 ROHS RESTRICTION OF THE USES OF CERTAIN HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES ________________ 11 2 4 WEEE WASTE ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT _____________________________ 11 3 INTRODUCTION __________________________________________________________________ 12 3 1...

Page 6: ...1 READER SETTINGS ________________________________________________________________ 34 8 APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT ____________________________________________________ 35 8 1 SOFTWARE OVERVIEW_____________________________________________________________ 35 8 2 READING PROCESS _______________________________________________________________ 35 8 2 1 COMMUNICATION INITIALIZATION ________________________...

Page 7: ...rease the lifetime of this device Keep the device and all parts and accessories out of the reach of small children Keep the device dry Precipitation humidity and liquids contain minerals that will corrode electronic circuits Do not use or store the device in dusty dirty areas Its moving parts can be damaged Do not store in hot areas High temperatures can shorten the life of electronic devices dama...

Page 8: ...Operating Environment When connecting the device or any accessory to another device read its user guide for detailed safety instructions Do not connect incompatible products As with all RF equipment users are advised that the equipment should only be used in its normal operating position ...

Page 9: ...with the European EMC directive CE Declaration of Conformity granted The HHU500 complies with the requirements of the Telecommunication Terminal Equipment Act FTEG and the RTTE Directive 1995 5 CE The HHU500 has been designed and tested to be in conformity with EN 302 208 1 v1 4 1 EN 302 208 2 v1 4 1 EN 300 328 v1 7 1 EN 301 489 3 v1 4 1 EN 301 489 1 v1 8 1 EN 301 489 17 v2 1 1 specifications It i...

Page 10: ...his equipment does cause harmful interference to radio or television reception which can be determined by turning the equipment off and on the user is encouraged to try to correct the interference by one or more of the following measures Reorient or relocate the receiving antenna Increase the separation between the equipment and receiver Connect the equipment into an outlet on a circuit different ...

Page 11: ...Polybrominated diphenyl ether flame retardants This declaration is based on information provided by our suppliers and subcontractors 2 4 WEEE Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment This product bears the selective sorting symbol for waste electrical and electronic equipment WEEE This means that this product must be handled pursuant to European Directive 2002 96 EC in order to be recycled or dis...

Page 12: ... of movement The HHU500 is power supplied by a Li Ion rechargeable battery providing approx 4 hours of use in continuous reading operation at 25 C nominal tempe rature The HHU500 features 2 capacitive touch buttons for powering On Off the product and user application purpose as well leds for battery charging status battery level monitoring and user application purpose It includes also a buzzer whi...

Page 13: ...uding o Native DLL package for Windows CE family PocketPC 2003 Windows Mobile 5 x Windows Mobile 6 x running on ARM processor Windows XP Vista and Seven operating systems running either in 32 bit or 64 bit mode o Demo software for Pocket PC with Visual C source code o DLL Programming Guide User friendly PC demo software for test on Windows XP Vista and Seven operating system running either in 32 b...

Page 14: ... 1 Powering On Off A specific touch button placed on top of the product shall be used to switch the product ON or OFF Place your finger onto this symbol during 3 sec minimum as shown on the figure below When the product goes ON the battery level and user leds light on orange and green color at middle of the wand and buzzer beeps Figure 2 Power On Off touch button ...

Page 15: ...tely recharge it Product will be automatically switched off after 15 min approx at this level to prevent permanent damages to battery It is strongly advised to not wait for this level to be reached before recharging the battery Power level led indicates also battery level status When this led is Continuously ON battery is charged Blinking 1 time sec battery charge is at low level Blinking 5 times ...

Page 16: ...product Connect the female jack connector of the provided power supply equipment into the male jack connector of the product as shown in the figure below In recharging mode HHU500 is not operating and therefore cannot be used for inventory operations Only use the power supply provided with the product to recharge it Using different equipment might irreversibly damage the product Figure 4 Battery i...

Page 17: ...or any Li Ion battery powered product in order to maximize battery life and capacity it is strongly advised to not store HHU500 product for long periods without using or fully recharging it Battery used in this product may present a risk of fire or chemical burn if mistreated HHU500 must not be opened or disassembled except by a TAGSYS qualified and trained staff heat above 100 C 212 F incinerated...

Page 18: ...cation controlled touch button can trig specific operations see DLLs Programming guide Single click one click in a 500 ms window Double short clicks two successive clicks separated by less than 500 ms Long click one click kept 2 sec minimum 4 6 Bluetooth Communication Interface TAGSYS HHU500 implements Bluetooth Serial Port Profile SPP This means that once connection to the reader is established i...

Page 19: ...ted by Windows CE SDK and demo application Please refer to your host device user s manual for information about how to select Bluetooth COM port number Reader device name is always customizable at application level using either a specific command from SDK See more details in DLLs Programming Guide or TAGSYS UHF Explorer delivered with this product Settings window see 6 3 chapter here after HHU500 ...

Page 20: ...cation can then be started provided onto the product CD ROM for PC or Pocket PC A software development kit included in the CD ROM can be used to develop an application on Windows 200x XP Vista and Seven operating system running either in 32 bit or 64 bit mode A software development kit for Windows CE Arm processor and demo software for Pocket PC are also supplied with source code Antenna radiation...

Page 21: ...usly be equipped with a Bluetooth communication interface in order to communicate with the HHU500 5 2 Configuring the Pocket PC Before using Pocket PC demo software communication must be established to the HHU500 see section 4 3 No other configuration is required 5 3 Installing the demo software To install the demo software on your Pocket PC device insert the product CD ROM into the disk drive on ...

Page 22: ...mo software settings window see section 5 4 2 SDK Version and application status Displays the version of the DLL currently in use as well as application status i e not connected connecting ready or reading Battery charge level Displays remaining battery power as a progress bar Frame counter Displays the total number of tag frames i e messages detected during the read session the same tag can be de...

Page 23: ...ettings window Opens settings window See section 5 4 2 for details Clear display Clears tag list and counters Exit application Ends communication to the HHU500 and exits application 5 4 2 Configuring reader and demo software To open configuration window click settings icon in main window see section 5 4 1 The following window pops up COM Port The Bluetooth virtual COM port affected to the HHU500 P...

Page 24: ...not they are in reference list In this case success rate is not available Use During read sessions only detected tags that are in reference list are displayed In this case success rate is available Build This mode is used to create a reference list At the beginning of read sessions reference list is cleared then all detected tags are displayed and inserted into the reference list In this case succ...

Page 25: ...HHU500 User s Guide May 2013 Revision 1 1 25 41 To abort a read session click stop icon see section 5 4 1 ...

Page 26: ...SYS UHF Explorer insert the product CD ROM into the disk drive on your PC and run the setup TAGSYS UHF Explorer vx y z Installer msi from Demo Software directory and follow the different installer steps A shortcut will be created on your desktop and a program group will be created in the start menu 6 2 Running the application Before running TAGSYS UHF Explorer software be sure that the HHU500 is p...

Page 27: ...cific reference list list selected before in Settings window Specific counters reflect how many tags have been read compared with total expected tags of this reference list as well the associated success read rate Non Referenced read tags meaning all read tags EPC data which are not part of any selected reference list A specific counter reflects how many of these tags have been read Total frames c...

Page 28: ...information o COM port It is the assigned value by Windows PC to be used for the Bluetooth connection with HHU500 reader o Read timeout ms amount of time allocated by the reader for the read session o Power cdBm power value to be used by the reader for the read session 500 to 3000 cdBm 50 cdBm steps o Region region mode to be selected according with product version in use EU3 for HHU500 EU and US ...

Page 29: ... o Use button to start reading if checked reading operation will be triggered stopped by user double clicks action on application controlled touch button o Reader version reports firmware and hardware versions of embedded UHF module o Board controller version reports board controller firmware version o Display Mode selects the way referenced tag ePCs are reported in Bulk Read panel They are either...

Page 30: ...30 41 Revision 1 1 May 2013 Reference Lists Contents page third tab allows the user to populate reference lists defined in Reference Lists page Reference lists can also be cleared saved to or loaded from disk as csv files ...

Page 31: ...HHU500 User s Guide May 2013 Revision 1 1 31 41 ...

Page 32: ...6 4 Reading Tags Tags reading are performed by clicking on green Start button of main screen Bulk read window reports and sorts read tags EPC data reference list name number of received frames for a given tag into Referenced Non Referenced categories ...

Page 33: ...13 Revision 1 1 33 41 RSSI plots window displays for each read tag the RSSI and reading time values RSSI is the Return Strength Signal Indicator These values are displayed only when the reading operation is stopped Green button ...

Page 34: ...S FCC Part 15 C compliance User mode Portal Power mode Low power Read timeout Amount of time allocated by the reader for the read session This value is relative to density of tags that could be detected at the same time by the antenna For example this value could be 500 ms for a quantity up to 50 tags These parameters can be configured using the appropriate DLL functions described in 8 2 2 HHU500 ...

Page 35: ...erial communication port on the PC Pocket PC host to communicate with the HHU500 If the application succeeds opening the port the answer will be true else false This function does not allow checking if a HHU500 is connected to the COM Port Even no HHU500 connected to the COM port you may succeed opening it because it is supported by the host PC Pocket PC A convenient way to know if the HHU500 is c...

Page 36: ...sed at first once you have used the connect function This command allows enabling all the UHF module features including tag commands Then following script of functions must be used SetRegion command This command is mandatory for HHU500 It configures the HHU500 for the current region in use US Europe Korea Japan see DLLs programming guide Region mode EU3 for HHU500 EU product version and US for HHU...

Page 37: ...fer For multiple tags application quantity of tags to be read 50 TAGSYS recommends to set the ReadTimeout value to 1000 ms GetTagIdBuffer command Retrieve the tags ID stored in the TagIdBuffer for the application Please note that GetTagIdBuffer command can only retrieve a maximum of 13 tags ID at a time If there are more than 13 tags available in the buffer GetNbOfTagIdInBuffer function gets back ...

Page 38: ...bility EPC Global Class 1 Gen2 ISO IEC 18000 6 Part C Communication interface Bluetooth Class II IEEE 802 15 10 m max range approx Operating temperature 0 to 40 C Storage temperature 1 year 20 25 1 3 months 20 45 1 1 month 20 60 1 Conformity HHU500 EU EN 302 208 v1 4 1 European Radio compliance EN 50364 EN50357 Human Exposure EN 60950 1 Electrical Safety HHU500 US FCC Part 15 Note 1 If the product...

Page 39: ...aving your installation reviewed by a TAGSYS technical consultant TAGSYS warranty does not cover the installation maintenance or service of the Product and is strictly limited to the replacement of Products considered as defective by TAGSYS and returned according to the return procedure defined below in such case TAGSYS will at TAGSYS option either replace or repair every defective Product or refu...

Page 40: ...lity and fitness for a particular purpose 10 2 2 How to Return Defective Products The Buyer shall notify TAGSYS of the defects within 15 working days after the defects are discovered Defective Products must be returned to TAGSYS in their complete original packaging provided such original packaging is available after assignment by a TAGSYS Quality Department representative of an RMA Return Material...

Page 41: ...nt quality controls If the product is no longer under warranty a final analysis report will be sent to you as soon as possible as well as a quotation for repair Please contact the Quality Representative for further details 33 442 188 900 Quotation In case of no product repair coverage by TAGSYS or product out of warranty period any quotation will be charged to a fixed price of 100 per product This...

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