ECO READER 9965432 - User Manual Version 1.
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TECHNICAL SUPPORT 2 PRECAUTIONS 5 INTRODUCTION Before you start 6 6 Unpacking HARDWARE INSTALLATION Introduction Connectors 6 7 7 7 Mounting the Eco Reader 10 Connecting the antennas 10 Connecting the alarm 14 Connecting power 15 Connecting customer counting {optional} 16 Connecting to usb {optional} 18 Connecting to ethernet {optional} 19 Connecting the relais {optional} 19 SOFTWARE CONFIGURATION introduction 20 20 Rftest.
DISCLAIMER 29 APPENDIX A Conversion from dvd to ecoreader 30 31 APPENDIX B 32 APPENDIX C: RELAYS Relay used in nedap readers 35 35 Rf test 35 Contact ratings 35 Approved standards 35 APPENDIX D: CUSTOMER COUNTING PG45 36
Installation of these products should be performed by a qualified installation partner. Do not use the product in damp places. If you smell smoke or other odors or hear a strange sound, unplug the power cord and contact your dealer. Make sure to connect the power cable to a properly earthed outlet. Protect the power cord from physical or mechanical abuse, such as being twisted, kinked, pinched, closed in a door, or walked upon.
INTRODUCTION BEFORE YOU START We would like to thank you for buying a Nedap Librix Eco Reader RFID system. The Eco Reader can be used in combination with Nedap Librix anti-theft antennas, Nedap Librix Intelligent shelves and Nedap Librix Autosort products. The Eco Reader is specially developed to have a low energy consumption during operation, and the additional capability to switch its output power off at times when it is not needed. Some of its functions are: Reads ISO15693 and ISO18000-3.
INTRODUCTION This chapter describes the physical installation of the Eco Reader, connecting antennas, cabling customer counting and beeper, etc. For the software configuration please refer to the chapter ‘software configuration’. The following paragraphs are in the same order as the installation steps should be performed. CONNECTORS The Eco Reader has several connectors to connect peripherals to. See the figures below for a description.
Figure 2 - DIN rail clips Figure 3 - BNC connectors
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RESET TEST Figure 6 - Top view, test and reset button MOUNTING THE ECO READER 10 The Eco Reader can be mounted to a vertical surface by using the supplied DIN rail. Use the appropriate screws and tools for the surface you are mounting on. The Eco Reader weighs approximately 2.6kg, so make sure the surface can carry this weight. The Eco Reader can be ‘clicked’ on the DIN rail. Use the provided ‘power adapter mounting kit’ to attach the power supply to the DIN rail to.
Belden 9907 or RG58 Antennas must be connected to the Eco Reader by using coaxial cables and BNC connectors. The coaxial cable should be of type ‘Belden 9907’ or ‘RG58’. The BNC should be properly fit to the coaxial cable, where the outer wire does not touch the inner wire. Ten wire braided shield data cable Use a braided shield (like data cable) for communication with customer counting, external multiplexer, or any other external board.
Figure 8 - cable filter Security Antenna configurations There are some possible configurations of connecting PG antennas to the Eco Reader based on the number of aisles that are needed. The Eco Reader has an internal 4-way multiplexer, which allows you to connect 4 antennas to one Eco Reader without any additional splitters or multiplexers. It is not necessary to always connect 4 antennas, which makes it also possible for connecting only 2 antennas.
PG45: 3-loop PG45: 2-loop PG50: 2-loop PG50: 0-loop PG50: 2-loop Figure 10 - 2 aisles, antennas directly on Eco Reader, and connection for customer counting PG45: 2-loop PG45: 3-loop PG45: 2-loop PG45: 3-loop PG50: 2-loop PG50: 0-loop PG50: 2-loop PG50: 0-loop ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
the reader and a splitter, or splitter and antenna, or directly from reader to antenna. The appropriate cable length is dependent on the type of gate used and type of coaxial cable used. There are different ways to determine the optimal cable length: 1. use the table in appendix A of this document. In this table the appropriate length for different types of antennas is given. 2. use a vector impedance analyzer to measure the resistance and reactance of the antenna on 13.1Mhz or 13.9Mhz sidebands.
The connection schematic for the buzzer should be: Red -> +24V Black -> BUZ1 BUZ2 is a 2nd buzzer port to which another audible alarm can be connected with a different alarm time (not standard delivered).
CONNECTING CUSTOMER COUNTING {OPTIONAL} Up to 4x aisles of customer counting can be connected to the Eco Reader. Make sure to wire the customer counting modules inside the PG antennas in the appropriate way. Connector K8 has 8x inputs called CC1 up to CC8. For aisle 1 use CC1 and CC2, for aisle 2 use CC3 and CC4, etc. The customer counting receivers should be connected in the right direction to properly distinguish an incoming from an outgoing customer.
Test mode can be started by pressing the test button (see Figure 6) and holding it for some time. The Eco Reader leaves mode 60 seconds after the last test was performed or it disconnects and reconnects the power to the Eco Reader.
CONNECTING TO USB {OPTIONAL} The Eco Reader can be connected to a pc or laptop with an USB cable. On rev.A of the PCB a microusb connector should be used on the Eco Reader, on rev.E of the PCB a type B usb connector should be used. This USB cable is delivered together with the Eco Reader. Figure 14 USB Connector 18 A driver is required to communicate with the Eco Reader.
The Eco Reader can be connected to any 10/100Mbit network with shielded UTP cable. Use the LAN connector on the PCB for this. The Eco Reader is default set to use DHCP to obtain an IP-address, but can also be configured to a static IP-address. The program rftest.lite can be used to search for all Eco Readers in the network, and in this way its IP-address can be retrieved.
SOFTWARE CONFIGURATION INTRODUCTION This chapter describes how the Eco Reader can be configured. Most configuration needs to be done when the Eco Reader is used in combination with Security Antennas. When the Eco Reader is used in combination with Intelligent shelves, it is controlled from a PC. Rftest.lite 3.0.0 or higher may be required when communication is done over USB. RFTEST.LITE OR WEBPAGE? The Eco Reader can be configured with the windows program rftest.lite or over its internal webpage.
Figure 17 - Customer counter reset and update When ‘Reset’ is clicked, the customer counter values go back to zero. The ‘Update’ button forces a refresh of the customer counter values. In the bottom-right part of the home page a ‘world-globe’ icon is shown when the Eco Reader has a connection to librixonline.com. When you do not see this, but there should be a connection, contact your local IT specialist to resolve the network problems you are experiencing.
1. start rftest.lite on a windows based system that is connected to the network, and which has no firewall installed, or any other system that prevents it from having full access to the network. 2. In rftest.lite click on the ‘CFG’ button in the top-right corner 3. In the communication setup screen, select ‘Use UDP port’ and enter ‘8004’ as the UDP Port. The UDP Host value is not important at this moment. 22 4. Click on the ‘..’ button behind ‘UDP Host:’. 5.
8. When ‘RfidReader not active’ is reported, there is probably a problem in your network. Contact your local IT specialist for assistance. Configuring the network settings with a webpage 1.
ADMINISTRATOR ACCESS Some settings (like RFID output power) are only accessible when you are logged in into the Eco Reader as administrator. In order to do this go to the top-right corner of the configuration webpage, and enter in the ‘User’ and ‘Pass’ textboxes the following. User: admin Pass: admin ENABLING POWER To enable the output power of the Eco Reader, you need to be logged in as administrator as described in the previous paragraph.
4. When AFI is chosen as Alarm Type, the AFI page can be used to set the AFI values for which the alarm should go off. a. AFI security on: the AFI value for which an alarm should go off b. AFI security off: the AFI value which indicates an RFID tag with alarm switched off c. UID Mask 1: enter an UID mask, like ‘FFFFFFFFFFFFFFE0’ to minimize false AFI alarms. Consult Nedap Librix for more help. d. UID Mask 2: enter an 2nd UID mask, like ‘FFFFFFFFFFFF04E0’ to minimize false AFI alarms.
a. Monitoring enabled: Enable\disable the AFI monitoring b. IP Address: Enter the IP-address of the pc that is running Bibliocheck4Monitor. Make sure the network is not blocking any communication between the Eco Reader and this pc. c. Port Enter the port which should be used for communication d. Monitoring mode: Specify here if only the ‘UID’ or ‘UID+Data’ should be read from an alarming RFID tag. e.
ENERGY MANAGEMENT A powerful energy saving feature of the Eco Reader is the ability to turn on and off the power to the gates at certain times of the day. 1. Go to Settings > Energy > Power scheduling 2. In ‘On (hour)’ enter the hour of the day the reader should turn on, and in ‘Off (hour)’ enter the hour of the day the reader should turn off.
FIRMWARE UPGRADE (WITH FILE UPDATE) Updating the Eco Reader firmware can only be done with the internal website via a network connection. Browse to the internal website of the Eco Reader and log in using the default username/ password : admin/ admin , the tab “Firmware” should then appear: Click the Browse… button and locate your “firmware__.pac”-file, and click Open.
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APPENDIX A To obtain the maximum reading performance with the Eco Reader and various antenna gates, a specific cable length should be used. The minimum, starting cable length l0 that should be used, is given in the table below. When a longer cable is required, every time a fixed size cable ln should be added. The total cable length l will be: 𝑙 = 𝑙0 + 𝑛 ∗ 𝑙𝑛 , 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑛 𝑖𝑠 0,1,2,3,4, … RG58 Art.nr. Description l0(m) ln(m) PG50 8-loop with CC and lamp 5.1 7.0 PG50 0-loop with CC and lamp 5.0 7.
CONVERSION FROM DVD TO ECOREADER When a DVD RFID Reader needs to be replaced with an Eco Reader, it is possible that you need to change the cable length. It is advised to do the following: 1. Exchange the DVD for an Eco Reader and perform tests to see if the existing cables function within expectations. 2. If the performance is not satisfactory, change the cable length by adding or removing some cable.
APPENDIX B The optimal cable length is obtained when the sidebands of a 50Ω antenna have a high resistance, and low reactance. There are several ways of measuring this, but one popular way is a smith chart. In Figure 20 a smith chart is shown of a pg45 3-loop antenna with the proper cable length. The green circle shows the resistance and reactance of the antenna for frequencies from 13.06Mhz to 14.06Mhz. Marker 1 is set on 13.56Mhz, and it can be see that the resistance is ~50Ω and reactance ~j0Ω.
AEA Technologies Via Bravo or Via Analyzer *this analyzer can show a smith chart, but you need additional pc software. The analyzer shows a bode-plot of the antenna over a specific frequency range, which can also be used to determine the resistance and reactance of the sidebands.
is used, the optimal cable length can be determined manually, by performing the following steps: 1. Install the antenna gates and all wires (coaxial, data cables) as usual, but make sure that you at least have an excess coaxial cable length of 7m. 2. Strip the coaxial cable, and manually insert it into your measuring device. 3. Measure the resistance and reactance. If the resistance is >180Ω and reactance is approaching j0Ω, you’re cable length is fine, and go to step 6. 4.
RELAY USED IN NEDAP READERS The relays used in the Nedap readers used for RFID applications for libraries are Single Side Stable. This implies that the switch contacts in the relay remain in a normal or stable position as long as no power is applied to the coil. There is a normally open (N/O) and a normally closed (N/C) contact. When power is applied to the coil, the contacts move to a new position, but stay in that position as long as power is applied to the coil.
APPENDIX D: CUSTOMER COUNTING PG45
