Master Hand Held Terminal IGMA51433 / 916 User Manual UM4722 Rev: 1.
Table of Content Master Hand Held Terminal ................................................................................................... 1 1 Overview ........................................................................................................................ 4 2 Installation ...................................................................................................................... 6 3 Application Settings ..........................................................................
Attention • Hi-G-Tek's MHHT RFID Reader, FCC ID: OB6-IGMA51916 is distributed to a commercial/industrial use only, and should only be handled by personnel authorized by Hi-G-Tek representatives. • Installation must be performed according to this User Guide. • The use of any antenna other than those certified with the product is expressly forbidden in accordance with FCC rules CFR47 part 15.204 and part 15.203. The FCC Wants You to Know This device complies with Part 15 of the FCC Rules.
1 Overview The Master Handheld Terminal is a compact RFID reader module for PDA / Pocket PC with a compact flash (CF) card interface. The reader plugs into a standard CF connector, it has been designed to allow pocket PC’s and mobile handhelds both short and long range access to Hi-G-Tek’s electronic seal /tag for a various RFID applications The module is powered from the PDA’s power, both LF & HF antennas are completely integrated, the reader uses two RF channels (L.F, H.
1.2 CF RFID Module installation • • • Carefully insert the RFID module into the CompactFlash slot of your PDA. There is no need to install any drivers with this RFID card.
2 Installation This section describe how to set up the Pocket PC for the first time 1. 2. 3. 4. Put the PPC on the cradle and plug in the USB connector to the PC. Windows XP should identify it as the new hardware. Install the ActiveSync 3.8.
5. Make the above selections (standard partnership) and hit next. You should get the following screen: 6. Make the above selection (w/desktop) and hit next.
7. Give a unique device name for each PPC device and hit next. You should get the following screen: 8. Make the above selection (two computers) and hit next.
. Hit next. You should get the following screen: 10. Select file check box only and hit next.
11. Hit Finish. The ActiveSync will be launched: 12.
13. For each device ActiveSync a “new directory on the PC under “My documents” with a name “ My Documents. In our example “the folder (directory) name is “”UNIT_NUM_1982 My documents”. It creates a shortcut for it on the PC desktop as follows: 14. Close the ActiveSync window. 15. Double click on the above newly created shortcut. 16. Open the “Business” directory. 17. Create a new directory “HiGTek” and Open that directory. 18. Create new directory “Settings” and open that directory. 19.
3 Application Settings 3.1 General description Hi-G-Tek HHT application enables the user to customize it’s setting using the setting.xml file. This file has the following format: PAGE 13Each of the fields’ types must have the following attributes: name – each field must have a unique name. “udt-field” and “containerfield” have a predefined names “UDT” and “Container ID” respectively. length – the number of characters (ASCII characters) the field holds. value – the field’s default value. desc – the field’s description. regex-pattern – regular expression pattern used to validate the value entered by the user for that field.
PAGE 153.3 Predefined Seals The Hi-G-Tek enables to user to perform various operation on a DataSeal using HF RF. But in order to perform those operations the user need to supply the Seal ID of the DataSeal. One way is to physically take the DataSeal, read it’s it from the label put on it and type that ID manually. How ever there are times were there is a list of predefined seals the the user should work with. In this case, the user can put a file, “seals.txt”, with the list of those under the “\My Documents\Busine
4 Application Operation 4.1 System Login Once Hi-G-Tek HHT is launched, the user is asked to provide the password for running the application. This password is defined in the application settings (“settings.xml” file). Figure 4: Login Screen Upon entering the right password, the user gets the application main screen.
4.2 Main Screen Figure 5: Main Screen 1. Read – reading DataSeal status, events and data. 2. Set - Arming a DataSeal. Writing data to the DataSeal and setting its status to “Set” (armed). 3. Read Data – reading data of an armed DataSeal. 4. Write Data – changing the data of an armed DataSeal. 5. Verify – searching for neighboring DataSeals. 6. Addressed (Addr.) Verify – reading DataSeal status and data. 7. Menu – view recently read Data Seals.
4.3 Select Seal Screen Figure 6: Select Seal Screen When pressing on either one of Read, Set, Read Data, Write Data or Addressed Verify buttons – the application displays first the “Select Seal Screen”. On this screen the user to should select the target DataSeal, that is, for example, if the user hit the Set button the target DataSeal id the seal which the user want to “arm”. There are three options for selecting DataSeal: 1. Entering the Seal ID manually and hitting the respective select button.
4.4 Read – reading DataSeal status, data and events Figure 7 Read Screen –General Tab Page When hitting the Read button on the main screen the user is prompt select the target DataSeal, and the application starts the read process. The Read screen displays the target DataSeal status, data and events. The Application reads the status and data first and then the events. There are three tab pages in this screen: • • • General – displays the DataSeal status as well as the DataSeal stamp and number of events.
Figure 8 Read Screen –Data Tab Page - 20 -
4.5 Set – arming the DataSeal Figure 9 Set Screen When hitting the Set button on the main screen the user is prompt select the target DataSeal, and then after the application displays the Set screen. The Set screen enables the user to “arm” the DataSeal, that is, to write the data to the data seal and “initialize” (Set) the DataSeal. The ““initialization” clears the DataSeal tamper status and DataSeal events. The DataSeal must be in a “Closed” state in order to successfully complete the Set process.
4.6 Read Data – reading the DataSeal Data Figure 10 Read Data Screen When hitting the Read Data button on the main screen the user is prompt select the target DataSeal, and then after the application displays the Read Data screen.
4.7 Write Data – writing data to the DataSeal Figure 11 Write Data Screen When hitting the Write Data button on the main screen the user is prompt select the target DataSeal, and then after the application displays the Write Data screen. The purpose of the Write Data screen is to enable the user to modify the data fields in the DataSeal after it has been “armed” (Set). Typically, the user will perform this operation if some mistake was made putting the data in Set screen.
4.8 Verify – searching “neighboring” DataSeals Figure 12: Verify Screen Upon hitting the Verify button on the main screen or on the The Verify screen enables there user to detect “neighboring” seals using RFID Verify broadcast message. Seals receiving this message reply and the application adds them to the “verify list”.
4.9 Addressed Verify – reading DataSeal status and data Figure 13 Addressed Verify Screen When hitting the Addr. Verify button on the main screen the user is prompt select the target DataSeal, and the application starts the read process. The Addressed Verify screen displays the target DataSeal status, seal stamp and container ID. 4.10 Menu –display previous read DataSeals This screen displays the information of previously read DataSeal in the Read screen.
