Caen RFID ion R4301P, Technical Information Manual

Page 1: ...TECHNICAL INFORMATION MANUAL Revision 00 18 March 2016 R4301P UHF Long Range Reader with GPRS WIFI...

Page 2: ...ocument contains information for a new product CAEN RFID reserves the right to modify this product without notice Preliminary product information describes products that are ready for production but f...

Page 3: ...vice generates uses and can radiate radio frequency energy If not installed and used in accordance with the instruction manual the product may cause harmful interference to radio communications Operat...

Page 4: ...er Configuration using the serial port 21 Configure Ethernet settings 21 Set Date and Time 22 Configure the serial port to communicate with the caenrfidd daemon 22 How to restore the R4301P default fa...

Page 5: ...6 Ion R4301P USB Connector Pins Position 15 Fig 3 7 Ion R4301P DB9 Socket Connector Pins Position 16 Fig 3 8 Ion R4301P RFID Connector Pinout 16 Fig 3 9 Ion R4301P Top Cover LEDs 17 Fig 4 1 Ion R4301...

Page 6: ...st of ownership of installed devices The Ion is best suited for complex AutoID scenarios where the information can be collected and fed directly to the reader from multiple sources such as Smart Card...

Page 7: ...anual 7 Installation Notice The Ion R4301P reader could be mounted either horizontally or vertically Locate the four mounting slots on the reader as illustrated below All measurements are in millimetr...

Page 8: ...1PDK Ion reader development kit is a complete RFID set up for a quick implementation of RFID solutions It includes n 1 R4301P Ion RFID UHF Portal Reader n 1 Power Supply n 1 Circular polarized antenna...

Page 9: ...Development kit with R4301P GPRS reader antenna cable power supply and demo tags WR4301PDKWFI R4301PDKW Development kit with R4301P WIFI reader antenna cable power supply and demo tags Accessories WAN...

Page 10: ...rom the CAEN RFID web site and install it 2 Connect the Ion to the power supply the power supply is an optional accessory see Ordering Options page 9 3 Attach the Ion directly to your PC using a cross...

Page 11: ...th the DC supply voltage in the range 9V 36V The part number of the connector is KPJX 3S S by KYCON and mates with KYCON P N KPPX 3P to be used on the supply voltage cable see Fig 3 2 Ion R4301P Plug...

Page 12: ...of the connector in shown in the following table Pin Signal Description 1 DA Bi directional pair A 2 DA Bi directional pair A 3 DB Bi directional pair B 4 DC Bi directional pair C 5 DC Bi directional...

Page 13: ...tion console see Ion GPIO chapter page 29 for further details In the case a GPIO line is configured as an output line the pin is an open drain port with 12mA current sinking capability and an internal...

Page 14: ...S Input supply voltage bypass 500mA max Shell External shell connected to Ground Tab 3 4 Ion R4301P GPIO Connector Pinout Fig 3 5 Ion R4301P DB15 Socket Connector Pins Position Warning avoid connectin...

Page 15: ...na Connector Pinout Note the standard Ion R4301P model has the SMA connector but the internal GSM GPRS is not present Note for more information on the insertion of SIM CARD please refer to SIM card pl...

Page 16: ...RTS output 9 Not connected Shell External shell connected to Ground Tab 3 8 Ion R4301P RS232 Connector Pinout Fig 3 7 Ion R4301P DB9 Socket Connector Pins Position RFID antenna ports The Ion R4301P h...

Page 17: ...IFI interface power ON Blinking Blue LED Communication activity Blinking Blue LED FAULT 1 Boot phase Red LED Ready to work OFF ANTENNA 2 Selected TX antenna Yellow LED Tab 3 9 Ion R4301P Top Cover LED...

Page 18: ...both the methods Reader Configuration using the Web Interface The Ion Web Interface is built around Webmin a well known web based configuration tool for Linux systems Being derived from Webmin the Io...

Page 19: ...Information Manual 19 Configure Ethernet settings To change the network configuration of the Ion R4301P reader using the web interface 1 Select the Network Configuration option in the Networking menu...

Page 20: ...e to set one time based on the other using the Set System Time To Hardware Time or the Set Hardware Time To System Time buttons 3 On the Change timezone tab you can select your timezone 4 On the Time...

Page 21: ...he vi Configure Ethernet settings To modify the reader network parameters you have to edit the network interface configuration file in the etc network directory 3 root ion vi etc network interface The...

Page 22: ...kernel output messages to the serial console By editing the etc default grub file and modify the kernel command line by removing the console option line GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX loglevel 6 reboot bios 3 Di...

Page 23: ...an USB flash drive at least 4 GB of memory For that purpose you can use the HDDRaw tool http hddguru com software HDD Raw Copy Tool or any other equivalent software 3 Power ON your PC insert the USB...

Page 24: ...on Technical Information Manual 24 6 Press the right arrow to move until Boot and enter this option by pressing Enter key 7 Using the down arrow move until Hard drive BBS Priorities and enter this opt...

Page 25: ...Technical Information Manual 25 8 Select the USB pen drive using the down arrow and change it to Boot Option 1 using the keys 9 Press the ESC key go to Save Exit using the right arrow and select Save...

Page 26: ...login prompt and rootroot at the password request 12 When entered in the bash shell type the following command opt install and then press enter 13 Wait 15 20 minutes until a System halted message appe...

Page 27: ...ION READER CONFIGURATION Ion Technical Information Manual 27...

Page 28: ...ION READER CONFIGURATION Ion Technical Information Manual 28 17 When the Ion login prompt appears the restore procedure is completed and the Ion is ready to be used again...

Page 29: ...n power subsystem uevent value using the pseudo file direction you can configure the GPIO line as an input or as an output while using the pseudo file value you can get set the GPIO line level For ins...

Page 30: ...uch on the Ion Default settings for caenrfidd server This file is sourced by bin sh from etc init d caenrfidd Enable disable the deamon Use yes to enable CAENRFIDD_ENABLE yes Set the default reader na...

Page 31: ...port Change the default listening port CAENRFID default is 1000 so you need setting user root in order to bind to the default CAENRFID port or the server will refuse to start Default port 1000 Radios...

Page 32: ...guration data Note antennae ID numbering starts from 0 invalid antenna IDs are simply discarted no radios and or no antennae is an error radio dummy antennae_enabled 0 radio impinj antennae_enabled 0...

Page 33: ...RFIDD DAEMON Ion Technical Information Manual 33 Default q 3 Session Define the default session for the query algorithm Allowed values are S0 S1 S2 and S3 Default session S0 The settings are self expl...

Page 34: ...reader and to the peripheral connected to the USB host ports In order to simplify the development of application running directly on the Ion R4301P reader CAEN RFID provides a virtual machine image co...

Page 35: ...Ion R4301P you have to use the C or the Java language and the API SDK Software Development Kit we provide and the TCP IP protocol as a connection interface as a result you can test your application r...

Page 36: ...code to be platform independent To use the standard API you must add the include file caenrfid_old h into your code see Standard API example below The source files used in this chapter can be download...

Page 37: ...ENRFID_StatusOK fprintf stderr improper caenrfidlib closure n return 0 The define _YES_I_KNOW_USING_OLD_CAENRFID_API_IS_EVIL is used to suppress compiler warning generated by the standard API To compi...

Page 38: ...tag size_t size char str int ret if argc 2 fprintf stderr usage s server_addr n argv 0 exit EXIT_FAILURE Start a new connection with the CAENRFIDD server ret caenrfid_open CAENRFID_PORT_TCP argv 1 ha...

Page 39: ...n inv_test ion reader address cae000000000000000000002 Source_0 Ant0 3 cae000000000000000000003 Source_0 Ant0 3 cae000000000000000000007 Source_0 Ant0 3 cae00000000000000000000a Source_0 Ant0 3 Where...

Page 40: ...CAENRFIDLibrary jar and RXTXcomm jar are included into the SDK package extract them from the SDK_4 0 0 zip file using the unzip command from a shell window or using the archive manager squeeze from t...

Page 41: ...stall the Java runtime You don t need to install all the Java Development Kit since you can compile your code on the development machine and then transfer the executable bytecode on the Ion reader Obt...

Page 42: ...cation for the Ion reader The first step is to install the Eclipse IDE itself on the development virtual machine by the following command line develop aptitude update develop aptitude install eclipse...

Page 43: ...the SIM card inside the reader the cover shall be opened by removing the 6 screws please see the red circle in the Fig 10 2 SIM holder position page 43 for the correct position Fig 10 1 Bottom cover...

Page 44: ...nd root ion gsmctl all gsmctl ERROR ME TA error SIM PIN required code 311 The message above is what you should obtain and indicate that the module is active and working it is just waiting for the PIN...

Page 45: ...hang for a while but then the output continues Don t know what to do Starting pppd and hoping for the best Starting pppd at Fri Oct 7 10 11 43 2011 Pid of pppd 1949 Using interface ppp0 pppd U 07 08...

Page 46: ...ts 5 errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0 txqueuelen 3 RX bytes 64 64 0 B TX bytes 97 97 0 B The routing table and the file etc resolv conf should be modified accordingly in order to e...

Page 47: ...above commanda you can install it by using the apt get command as follow root ion apt get install package For example if you wish to install the Java Run Time environment JRE into your Ion reader you...

Page 48: ...vorbis0a libvorbisenc2 libx11 6 libx11 data libxau6 libxcb render util0 libxcb render0 libxcb1 libxcomposite1 libxcursor1 libxdamage1 libxdmcp6 libxext6 libxfixes3 libxfont1 libxft2 libxi6 libxinerama...

Page 49: ...ode Management Data rate up to 400 Kbits s Standard Compliance EPC C1 G2 ISO 18000 6C Digital I O 13 GPIO pins TTL level Connectivity RS232 Serial Communication DB9 USB 2 0 High Speed Host Port Ethern...

Page 50: ...s RFID Antenna Ports Electrical Characteristics Parameter Min Typ Max Unit RF output power ETSI 0 05 1 6 W 17 32 dBm RF output power FCC 0 05 1 W 17 30 dBm Output power vs power setting accuracy 1 dB...

Page 51: ...Parameter Min Typ Max Unit TX 2 RS232 Voltage Levels 5 8 V Output Impedance 300 RX 3 RS232 Voltage Levels 30 30 V Input Impedance 3 5 7 k CTS 7 RS232 Voltage Levels 30 30 V Input Impedance 3 5 7 k RT...

Page 52: ...en installing the GSM GPRS antenna ensure a minimum separation distance of 20 cm between the antenna and all persons and 20 cm distance between GSM GPRS antenna and each RFID antennas f When installin...