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CHAPTER 3 NANOSCANNER SYSTEM FUNDAMENTALS

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• Text formatted tag lists take the form:

#Alien RFID Reader Auto Notification Message

#ReaderName: Spinner Reader

#ReaderType: Alien RFID Tag Reader (Class 1 / 915Mhz)

#IPAddress: 10.1.70.13

#CommandPort: 23

#Time: 2003/01/21 12:48:59

#Reason: TEST MESSAGE

Tag:1115 F268 81C3 C012, CRC:2483, Disc:2003/01/21 09:00:51, Count:1, Ant:0

Tag:0100 0100 0002 0709, CRC:8594, Disc:2003/01/21 11:00:10, Count:1, Ant:0

Tag:1054 A334 54E1 7409, CRC:2083, Disc:2003/01/21 11:50:03, Count:1, Ant:0

#End of Notification Message

• XML Formatted tag lists take the form:

<Alien-RFID-Reader-Auto-Notification>

<ReaderName>Spinner Reader</ReaderName>

<ReaderType>Alien RFID Tag Reader (Class 1 / 915Mhz)</ReaderType>

<Reason>TEST MESSAGE</Reason>

<Alien-RFID-Tag-List>

<Alien-RFID-Tag>

</Alien-RFID-Tag>

<Alien-RFID-Tag>

</Alien-RFID-Tag>

</Alien-RFID-Tag-List>

</Alien-RFID-Reader-Auto-Notification>

Listening for Tags over the Network

When a reader has been configured for autonomous mode, all interactive

communications with the reader can be stopped and it can be left to work on its

own.

It is then up to the network application to listen for any notification messages

from the reader.

Libraries are provided in the Nanoscanner Reader Developer’s Kit to provide this

functionality in both Java and Visual Basic languages. In both cases, setting up a

listening service is a simple coding task, involving less than 10 lines of code.