User's Manual

CAEN RFID API– User Manual

3 Basic Operations

This chapter shows the most common operations that a programmer can perform using a

CAEN RFID reader and the CAEN RFID API. All the example will be shown in the C# language;

the Visual Basic, Java and C version are omitted since they differ only at syntax level. The

chapter contains these topics:

 Importing the libraries

 Reader connection/disconnection

 Getting information about the connected reader

 Setting the power level

 Inventorying RFID tags

 Optimizing the inventory process

 Reading and writing Gen2 tags

 Locking Gen2 tags

 Killing Gen2 tags

 Handling General purpose Inputs/Ouputs (GPIOs)