User's Manual

CHAPTER 7 WEB BASED APPLICATION EXAMPLES
Installation
The following Installation section provides basic guidance for configuring
components in your RFID system. You should consider the overall design of your
specific system before permanently mounting the equipment.
Installation involves all the same connection steps required for bench test.
However, instead of situating equipment on a tabletop, the reader and antenna
and their accessories will mounted in your application environment.
The photo below shows a reader with single antenna side-mounted at a loading
dock door for a portal application. This configuration may be used to
automatically identify tagged objects moving in and out of this door. Those
tagged objects may be pallets and cases on pallets, crates, equipment and
vehicles, or personnel.
A second or more (optional) antenna(s) may be mounted on the opposite side of
the portal to better capture tags in a less than optimal position relative to the first
antenna (for example, tagged cases on the opposite side of a pallet).
Picture of a system configured at a dock door.
Requirements
Before installing your RFID Reader system, you will need the following:
 PC running Windows 98 or higher, with CD-ROM drive (for demo system
software) and one available RS-232 serial port
 Standard 120 VAC power for the reader location and PC location
 Host software
 (Optional) extra antennas (if desired for additional coverage)
 Any additional RS-232 cables or antenna coax cables needed to
accommodate routing requirements
 Standard grounded, three-pronged power cord of desired length
 Mounting hardware suitable for the surface to which equipment is to be
attached (e.g., wood screws, moly-bolts, brackets, etc.)
Figure 11.RFID Reader system configured for a single-antenna portal
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Hardware Setup Guide: ALR-9780 and ALR-9750-A
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