User's Manual

Speedway Revolution Installation and Operations Guide Octane 4.4

Chapter 3: Configuring and Monitoring

13. Test your reader installation. Place one or more tags in the read-zone of

one or more of the attached antennas. Select START Inventory. Tag

reads appear in the large gray area on the left:

Figure 3.5 Multireader Tag Inventory Display

In this case, the reader detected five tags. Because the search mode is Dual

Target, the reader continuously reads the tags, first reading the A flags, and

then reading the B flags. Notice in the above image that one of the tag entries is

a pinkish color. The tag entry changes to red when a tag is not actively read. For

example, if you change the Search Mode to Single Target with Suppression,

the reader reads each tag only once. All five entries would quickly turn red and

stay red as shown below.

Figure 3.6Multireader Tag Inventory Aging Display

If you see tag data appearing in MultiReader, your reader is most likely installed

correctly and the antennas are functioning properly. If you don’t see all the tags

you placed in the read-zone, try moving the tags to a slightly different location or

orientation.

14. Select STOP Inventory Run to stop the tag inventory process.

Monitoring Speedway Revolution

Use Rshell to monitor the reader health and performance when Speedway

Revolution is up and running. This section presents the primary Rshell commands

for viewing the network and RFID statistics, plus the reader logs. For details

about these commands, see the Rshell Reference Manual.

Speedway Revolution also supports industry standard SNMP, with MIB2 and

EPCglobal Reader Management MIB. For more information, see the Octane SNMP

Guide.

Viewing Network Parameters and Statistics

Use the Rshell show network command to display networking parameters and

statistics. Using this command with the indicated parameters, you can view the

following information: