Intellitag Developer`s Kit RFID Keyboard Wedge User Manual
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1. New Edit Yiew Tools Ty E Figure 16 Write Tag Data Display2. gt to separate the tag 1d and read data see figure 14 The last two lines in figure 14 shows how the data would be displayed 1f you scanned two tags at once and had selected to display the tag 1d with the data Setup RFID Write Tag s with Bar Code Before you can write data to RFID tags you must activate the WR option To do this select the WR check box located half way down the screen see figure 15 If the WR mode button round one was not selected 1t will automatically become active If you want to toggle back to Bar Code mode or any other mode just press the either side scan button You can do this from with in MS Word or MS Excel The next step is to define the write field You can only write bar code data to RFID tags with the wedge ZH RFID Wedge v 93 a 3 30 OS O MS Excel MS Word OBC CID ORD WR Filter ALL TAGS MBE MID MRD kel WR Addr Len Display Tag ID s with Reads Display Write Data Interrogator Ready Reader IP3 E Figure 15 Selecting Tag Write To define the write field you need to enter the start address tags have a zero based index and enter write data length LEN The default values are Start Address Addr 18 and Length Len 10 characters Do not worry about setting the write length You must scan bar codes for write data The wedge will automatically resize the length value for each bar code you scan You can only write string data with the wedge The final option is
3. CBC OID RD OWR OOF94729S0BA0005 gt 6957 Jhar a D82703140005E002 gt 6955 D0F94 72980 Filter ALL TAGS GE WEC MID MEEO O WR Addr Len Display Tag ID s with Reads Ul Display Write Data Interrogator Ready Reader IP3 New Edit Yiew Tools t E Figure 13 Selecting RFID Read Figure 14 Read Data To define the read field you need to enter the start address tags have a zero based index and enter a read length LEN The default values are Start Address Addr 18 and Length Len 10 characters You can only read string data with the wedge If you are planning to scan bar codes and perform reads do not worry about the length The wedge will automatically resize the length value for each bar code you scan The final option is displaying the tag s id with the read data The default mode will only show the read data If you want to also display the tag s ID you must select the check box located below the field Addr and Len boxes You are now ready to read RFID Tags Aim the IP3 at one or more tags The tags will be read and the data sent to the wedge You do not need to pre identify tags The read mode will automatically ID all tags and read them Figure 14 shows how read data would appear in MS Word You must press the enter key after each scanning If you scan more than one tag at a time a COLON will be used by the wedge to separate the tags If you choose to display both the tag id and read data the wedge will use
4. Color 700 power saving mode 1t will reset the communication link between the IP3 and the color 700 If the keyboard wedge is running when the color 700 sleeps it will have to reset 1ts communication link when the Color 700 resumes wakes up This will occur on the next trigger pull This process of reestablishing the communication link can take more than 30 seconds To help users know what is happening the keyboard wedge will make sounds every time you pull the trigger for an RFID operation The sound will continue until the RFID operation is complete If it sounds as if the keyboard wedge has hung up sound keeps going for an extended time it is probably trying to reestablish the link to the IP3 Wait 2 3 minutes and 1f the wedge still has not reestablished the link to the IP3 warm boot the Color 700 and reset the P3 To reset the IP3 you must remove its battery and then place it back on the IP3 Basically if you let the 700 sleep while the keyboard wedge is running the next RFID operation will take a while to complete Be patient You can also to into the Settings menu of the Color 700 and disable the sleep mode Trigger Pulls When you pull the trigger the trigger wedge will activate the current operation If you have selected either read or write the wedge will identify all tags present and then try to read or write all of them When this operation is complete the wedge will stop and send the data to Word or Excel Releasing the trigg
5. OWR Filter ALL TAGS VIBC MIC JRE WR 00FSA 2980BR40005 082 03 14C0CSE002 Addr Len L Display Tag ID s with Reads C Display Write Data Interrogator Ready Reader IPS New Edit View Tools t E Figure 11 Selecting Tag ID Mode Figure 12 Scanning Tag IDs You are now ready to scan RFID tags Open either MS Word or MS Excel depending on which data format you selected Aim the IP3 scan handle at one or more RFID Tags Their unique 16 character tag IDs will be displayed Figure 12 shows how the tag ids would appear in MS Word Please note that if you scan one tag at a time you will need to press the ENTER after each tag If you scan multiple tag ids at a time the wedge will insert a COLON in between each tag id The first tag id show in figure 12 1s how a single tag would appear The second line shows how two tag ids would appear if scanned at the same time Note the colon separating the two tag ids Setup RFID Read Tag s Before you can read RFID tags you must activate the RD option To do this select the RD check box located half way down the screen see figure 13 If the RD mode button round one was not selected it will automatically become active If you want to toggle back to Bar Code mode just press the either side scan button You can do this from with in MS Word or MS Excel The next step 1s to define the read field 9 RFID Wedge v 93 i327 ok 9 Pocket Word ES A 6955 6957 O MS Excel MS Word 6055
6. displaying the write data with tag s id The default mode will only show the tag 1d If you want to also display the write data you must select the second check box located below the field Addr and Len boxes You are now ready to write RFID Tags Open either MS Word or Excel Writing to a tag 1s a two step operation two trigger pulls First you must scan a bar code Now aim the IP3 at one or more tags and pull the trigger again to write the bar code to the tag s The tags will be written to and the data sent to the wedge You do not need to pre identify tags The write mode will automatically ID all tags and the write to them Figure 16 shows how write data would appear in MS Word You must press the enter key after each scanning If you scan more than one tag at a time a COLON will be used by the wedge to separate the tags If you choose to display both the tag 1d and write data the wedge will use gt to separate the tag 1d and write data see figure 16 IMPORTANT After each WRITE operation the wedge will delete the current bar code from memory and require you to scan a new bar code If you are writing to several tags at the same time the wedge will write the same bar code to all of the tags However the next time you pull the trigger you will have to first scan a bar code and then pull the trigger again to write to the tag s pam Pocket Word d 3 18 ak 00FSA 298R0B40005 52031940 SEU OOF 94 2980B40005 gt 07 31064602595
7. en Games BT Control Calculator f gt CORE File Explorer Infrared Receive omde Be m Pocket Excel Pocket Ze es ofa Li K s v Ta e Word Pr Figure 6 Opening Excel and Word Figure 7 Opening Excel and Word Scanning Operations There are four scanning operations you can select BC Bar Code ID Identify RFID Tag s RD Read RFID Tag s WR Write bar code to RFID Tag s You can activate any combination or all four To activate a scanning operation select its check box located about half way down the screen see figure 8 If you select more than one operation you can toggle between them by pushing either side scan button on the Color 700 ig RFID Wedge v 93 m 3 53 ok CO MS Excel MS Word SEC OID ORD QWR Display Tag ID s with Reads Display Write Data Interrogator Ready Reader IPS Figure 8 Scanning Operation Selection Setup Bar Codes Before scanning bar codes you need to activate them To activate bar codes check the BC box located halfway down the screen If you have selected more than one scanning operation make sure the round BC button located directly below the MS Excel 1s also selected You can select it by either clicking on it or you can press the side scan button until it is on as seen in figure 9 Eis Pocket Word i 3 14 ak 00490220452569 07310646025393 ES RFID Wedge v 93 q a53 ok O MS Excel MS Word BC OID ORD OWR Filt
8. er ALL TAGS MBE OIC ORD WR Adar Len C Display Tag ID s with Reads L Display Write Data Interrogator Ready Reader IPS New Edit Yiew Tools is E Figure 9 Selecting Bar Code Mode Figure 10 Scanning Bar Codes Now you can open MS Word or MS Excel and start scanning bar codes If you have problems scanning go to START button select SETTINGS select SYSTEM tab on bottom of screen and then click on the Data Collection icon From there you can activate bar code symbologies If you selected MS Word as your data format you will have to open MS Word Scan a bar code and see what happens It should appear on the screen as shown in figure 10 You will need to press the enter key to move to the next line before scanning a second bar code Otherwise the bar codes will be placed next to each other making them hard to read If you select MS Excel the wedge will automatically tag to a new cell for you Setup RFID Tag Identify Before you can scan RFID tags for their ID s you must activate the ID option To do this select the ID check box located half way down the screen see figure 11 If the ID mode button round one was not selected it will automatically become active If you want to toggle back to Bar Code mode just press the either side scan button You can do this from with in MS Word or MS Excel Es Pocket Word d 3 16 ok 00 94 2950B 4 0005 fy RFID Wedge v 93 325 Ok CMS Excel MS Word OBC BID ORD
9. er will not stop the current scan operation You do not need to select identify mode before trying to read or write tags Only use ID mode if you want to identify tags SOUNDS Good Sounds The good sound is a short beep It indicates that a valid tag was identified read or written The keyboard wedge will make a short beep sound for each successful tag operation If identify 2 tags you will hear 2 beeps with ONE trigger pull If you successfully read 3 tags you will hear 3 beeps with ONE trigger pull If you successfully write 4 tags you will hear 4 beeps with ONE trigger pull Bad Sounds If a tag fails during the read or write you will hear a bad sounding beep You will know it when you hear it Ifa tag fails to be properly identified you will not hear any sound Starting MS Word and MS Excel Once you have started the keyboard wedge application you will need to open either MS Excel or MS Word or your own application to receive the data from the wedge To open one of these applications you will need to click on the Microsoft flag symbol located in the upper left hand corner see figure 6 This will open the program list You may see the icon s for Word and Excel at the top of the list If so click the icon you want to open If not you will need to select PROGRAMS and then you will see the icons for Word and Excel see figure 7 Make sure you open the application that you have selected with in the keyboard wedge setup scre
10. fatermec Vel a RFID Keyboard Wedge User Manual Version 1 1 Intellitag Developer s Kit Table of Contents Keyboard Wed ce O e made 3 General SED ta 4 Wedos Data Output Onin odds 4 e q A ace E A E st ccaraaas T O 4 MS Wold EE 5 WARNIN Sy AAA 6 TAPAS tias 6 SOUND Sre 6 Eier Beie O Seese een E E E 6 Bad ee 7 Starine MS Word a d IVES EXC io 8 Scans OPENS A A A 9 SC UP A AA AE E ANOA 10 Setup RED Tae a ssc ashore A E I ee ees 11 Sup RETO Read Late 12 Scup REID Write Tag s with Bar Cod dedica 13 Keyboard Wedge Installation l Copy the RFIDKYBDWedge CAB file from your computer to the Color 700 Switch to the Color 700 and run the cab file by clicking on it once The cab file should self extract and install the keyboard wedge application WARM boot the Color 700 by pressing and holding in the power button O for about 20 seconds The screen should switch to a dark blue screen and then proceed through the reboot process Click the Windows START button and you should see the keyboard wedge s program name on the start menu see figure 1 Before starting the application make sure you have the IP3 scan handle attached to the Color 700 Make sure the scan handle s battery is also attached Start the keyboard wedge application RFIDKYBDWedge exe You are now ready to select the desired operations Read the following setup sections Once you have setup the keyboard wedge start your applicati
11. on such as MS Excel MS Word etc Figure 1 Start Menu General Setup To configure the keyboard wedge you will need to select or unselect various options using radio buttons and check boxes see figure 2 and 3 Radio Button gt IC MS Excel Check Box 7 Display Write Data Figure 2 Selecting Options Wedge Data Output Format The basic setup of the keyboard wedge requires you to select the type of data format to output to MS Word or MS Excel The following section details these options You have two types of output to select from MS Excel and MS Word see figure 3 You can only select ONE of these modes You can manually switch between them at any time MS Excel The MS Excel refers to Microsoft Excel spreadsheet The keyboard wedge will automatically tab to the next cell after each operation This will allow you to simply scan with out having to navigate around in Excel You must open Excel manually to use it Data will be listed vertically in columns If you choose to display both tag id and data for either RFID read or write operations the tag id will be placed in the first column and the data will be placed in the second column The wedge will then scroll down to the next row automatically for you If you read or write more than one tag at a time single trigger pull each tag will be placed on new row Ez Pocket Excel m 11 52 ak 2 Pocket Excel m 11 33 ak LI pesch heet e Sum 0 New Edi
12. r key to start a new line before the next trigger pull Examples of Word data format will be shown in the following sections on scanning Ep Wedge v 93 IN ok Tii OMSEX MS Word dea View Thon dee Filter ALL TAGS S Display Tag ID s with Reads Interrogator Ready Figure 5 Configuration Options Figure 5 shows the various options you can select from and also feedback controls The following is a descriptive list of the features 1 Data Format Selection output format to your application 2 Shows the current operating mode You can toggle between modes by pressing either side scan button on the Color 700 You must activate a mode before you can toggle to it 3 Activate any combination of modes by selecting or unselecting check boxes 4 Enter the start address and data length for the read and write field When writing the length will be automatically set by the wedge for every bar code you scan Y ou can only write bar codes 5 You can choose to display the tag id with read data and write data with the write tag 1d The default mode for reading tags 1s to display only the read data not the tag 1d only valid reads The default mode for writing tags 1s to display only the tag id s that have been successfully written to If a tag fails to write you will hear a bad beep but the tag 1d will not be displayed LA WARNING There is one major warning for the keyboard wedge and IP3 When the Pocket PC OS sleeps the
13. t iew Format Tools El Figure 3 Excel Data Display Tag Ids Only Figure 4 Excel Tag ID with Write Data Figure 3 shows how tag ids would be displayed in Excel If you perform either just ID or write operations only the tag 1d will be displayed by default Figure 4 shows tag writes with the optional display write data set active The tag ids for the write operation are placed in column A and the write data for each tag 1s placed in column B In this particular case 2 tags were written with a single trigger pull so they were both written with the same bar code data MS Word The MS Word option refers to Microsoft Word However any Widows based text editor is acceptable such as notepad Selecting this option will tell the keyboard wedge how to format the data to be sent to the text editor application Please note YOU will have to press the enter key after each line of data The keyboard wedge cannot perform a carriage return line field after each scanning operation due to a bug in the OS If you choose to display both tag 1d and data for either RFID read or write operations the tag 1d and the data will be placed on the same line but separated by gt for example 052861564132E003 gt 123abc TAGID gt DATA If you read or write more than one tag at a time single trigger pull the wedge will separate the tags with a colon for example 052861564132 E003 gt 123abc 063862574132E004 gt 7X45gh You will still need to press the ente
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