User's Manual

TagExciterInstallationManual 07‐00051‐110
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UsingTagExciterstoDetermineDirectionofTravelandRoomDiscrimination
TwoormoreTagExcitersmaybeusedtodeterminedirectionoftravelthroughaportal,thereby
identifyingpreciselythelocationandthemomentintimeatagtransfersfromonezoneto
another.
Todeterminedirectionoftravelusingtagexciters,youmustunderstandhowtheArgussystem
treatszones.
Duringsoftwareconfiguration,zonesaredefinedonafloorplanbyoutliningthe
zonewithaborder.Adjacentzonesaredefinedbydrawingzoneswithadjacentborders.TheTag
Exciters,identifiedbytheirserialnumbersarethendraggedontothefloorplanintheexact
locationstheyareinstalled.Inthesimplest
exampletwotagexcitersareused.Onetagexciteris
installedinthefirstzoneandthesecondTagExciterinstalledinthesecondzonedirectlyadjacent
tothefirst.
Whenatagentersthefirsttagexciterfield,itslocationispinpointedattheperimeterofthefirst
zone.As
itcrossesovertothesecondzone,thetagwillbeimmediatelypinpointedatthe
perimeterofthesecondzoneattheexacttimeitcrossedover.
Multipletagexcitersmaybeplacedineitherzonetoaccommodatevariousfloorplan
configurations.Keepinmindafewbasicrules.
1. The
tagmustclearlyenteraTagExciterfieldinthefirstzonewithout beinginatagexciter
fieldlocatedinthesecondzone.
2. ThetagmustclearlyexitfromaTagExciterfieldinthesecondzonewithoutbeinginatag
exciterfieldlocatedinthefirstzone.
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3. TagExciterfieldsineitherzonemayoverlapslightly
4. MorethanoneTagExcitermaybeusedineitherzonetocoverwideareasorpreventtags
fromslippingbyundetected.
Studytheexamplesbelowtodeterminethebesttagexciterlocationsforyourapplication.
ExampleA–determiningdirectionoftravelandzonetransferenceinacorridor.