User's Guide Part 1

CHAPTER 4 READER-HOST COMMUNICATIONS INSTALLATION

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CHAPTER 4

ReaderÙHost Communications Installation

The Nanoscanner reader is designed to be programmed using simple ASCII text-

based commands from any programming language.

Introduction

The CD provided with your Nanoscanner Reader Developer’s Kit includes

extensive examples of code developed by Alien for the Nanoscanner using Java

and VisualBasic programming languages. These examples will serve as models

for developing new software for the reader.

This section of the Nanoscanner Reader Developer’s Guide describes how to

install the reader on a host computer, as well as how to issue commands and

interact with the reader using three different methods:

• Command line operation over serial communication.

• Command line operation over Telnet communication.

• HTML based operation over Web communication.

Whether using direct serial communication with the reader or using one of the

network communication options, you will require serial communications for initial

reader installation.

Audience

For the purposes of this chapter, it is assumed that users:

• May be IT specialists, network specialists or programmers.

• Will operate the reader via the host either with direct serial communication or

via network.

• Have minimal previous knowledge of radio-frequency identification

technology.

Additionally, it is assumed that:

• Users installing the reader via direct serial communication are skilled in the

application of RS-232 serial protocol.

• Users installing the reader for network communication are skilled in basic

network configuration.