AeroScout BS2035 0 Users Manual

AeroScout Exciter

Version 1.0

User’s Manual

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Table of Contents

Introduction........................................................................................................ 4

Application and Industry Examples................................................................... 4

Features ............................................................................................................ 5

Exciter Hardware............................................................................................... 6

Connectors Panel........................................................................................................6

Exciter Components....................................................................................................8

Installing the Exciter .......................................................................................... 8

Preparing the Cables and Connectors ........................................................................8

Configuring the Exciter................................................................................................8

Mounting the Exciter ...................................................................................................9

Exciter and Accessories Model Numbers ....................................................... 11

Exciter Specifications ...................................................................................... 11

Range .......................................................................................................................11

Physical and Mechanical........................................................................................... 11

Network Interface ......................................................................................................11

Power........................................................................................................................11

Management ............................................................................................................. 11

Environmental Specifications ....................................................................................12

LF Channel................................................................................................................12

Certification ............................................................................................................... 12

Introduction

The AeroScout Exciter is a component of the AeroScout suite of enterprise
visibility solutions that enables location-based applications. The Exciter
extends the AeroScout suite to provide robust and sophisticated RFID
detection capabilities, using the same AeroScout tags that can also be
accurately located in real time by the AeroScout system.

The Exciter triggers AeroScout’s T2 tags as they pass through a choke point,
and those transmit a message to AeroScout Location Receiver(s) in range.

This provides instant acknowledgment that a tagged asset passed through a
gate, doorway or some other well-defined area. The detection capabilities of
the Exciter, combined with the location features of the AeroScout Location
System, make the AeroScout suite the most sophisticated enterprise visibility
solution for a wide variety of industries.

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Figure 1: Exciter positioned at choke point triggering a tag

Application and Industry Examples

High value asset tracking

Health care facilities and general enterprises can tag valuable assets that are
intended to stay within a certain area. The AeroScout system can track the
location of those assets, and if they leave through an exit or enter a restricted
area, the Exciter triggers a tag message.

Process control

Manufacturing and supply chain facilities can track the location and presence
of equipment and in-process inventory as it moves through the production
process. This gives an enterprise a real-time view of which (and how many)
assets have passed each step in the process, enabling better supply chain
management.

Features

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Inventory management

Logistics and manufacturing enterprises can automatically update inventory
records as inventory enters and leaves the warehouse, ensuring real-time
knowledge of levels without manual checks or physical scanning.

Security applications

Government agencies and enterprises can tag secure assets and people that are
restricted to certain areas or require historical location tracking. If those assets
leave through an exit or enter a restricted area, Exciter triggers a tag message.

Long range RFID detection of AeroScout T2 tags

Triggering the tags to transmit as they pass through a defined area, Exciters
reach up to a 6m (18 ft) range, enough to cover wide gate areas.

Tag behavior modification:

Wireless activation and deactivation of tags. Tag battery life can be extended
further by switching the tags off when they leave a defined tracking area
through a gate or doorway.

Change of tag transmission rate temporarily or indefinitely to accommodate
different usage patterns in various physical spaces.

Message Programming functions

Provide the ability to use the Exciter to store messages on the tag for later
transmission. Message transmission can later be triggered by other Exciters,
enabling sophisticated process control functions.

Exciters can trigger a tag to:

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Send up to 10 bytes of data
Transmit one of 10 pre-stored messages

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Send and store up to 10 bytes of data

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Rugged IP66 NEMA 4X-rated enclosure

To use in any hostile indoor or outdoor environment and in a wide
temperature range.

Ethernet connectivity

Enables centralized programming, monitoring and software updates by the
AeroScout Engine.