User's Manual

CAEN RFID API – User Manual
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The minimum steps a programmer should follow in order to operate with a CAEN RFID reader using the API are the
following:
 Open a connection with the reader
 Configuration of the logical source (optional if the default configuration is fine)
 Detection of tags and other operations on the tags
 Close the connection with the reader.
Here below a simple but complete code snippet showing the minimum required lines of code to detect RFID tags using
a CAEN RFID reader and the CAEN RFID API. The code is shown using .NET C# programming language but it can be
easily adapted to the other languages supported by the API.
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using com.caen.RFIDLibrary;
namespace ConsoleApplication1
{
class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
CAENRFIDReader MyReader = new CAENRFIDReader();
MyReader.Connect(CAENRFIDPort.CAENRFID_RS232, "COM3");
CAENRFIDLogicalSource MySource = MyReader.GetSource("Source_0");
CAENRFIDTag[] MyTags = MySource.InventoryTag();
if (MyTags.Length > 0)
{
for (int i = 0; i < MyTags.Length; i++)
{
String s = BitConverter.ToString(MyTags[i].GetId());
Console.WriteLine(s);
}
}
Console.WriteLine("Press a key to end the program.");
Console.ReadKey();
MyReader.Disconnect();
}
}
}