AI4100 Portable AEI Reader
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March 2, 2015
After you have entered a new track name, this name will appear in the Track pull down list
when this dialog is displayed again.
The orientation of the track's inventory can be entered by selecting a direction item from the
Inventory Orientation field's pull down list.
The default track inventory orientation can be set by going to the Default Values dialog (see
Paragraph 5.10).
Some tracks can assign spot names to individual locations on the track. If you want to assign
rail vehicles to individual track spot locations, check the Use Track Spots checkbox.
When this dialog is completed, tap on the OK button. This will cause the Active Track display
to appear (see Figure 12). Please note that the AI4100 Portable Reader allows up to two
tracks to be active at any given time. The process described above is completed for each
track on which tags are to be read, and the Active Track display shown below is for a case
where two tracks are active.
Figure 12 - Active Track Display
The second way to assign rail vehicles to a track is to read a special Track AEI tag before
reading the tags on the rail vehicles on the track. Track AEI tags are placed at each end of
the track and contain the same information about the track as with manual entry. See
Paragraph 7 on the format of the Track AEI tag.
When a Track AEI Tag is read, a display similar to Figure 12 will be shown. In the example
above a second Track AEI Tag has been read to allow rail vehicles on two adjacent tracks to
be scanned in the same session.
The AI4100 portable reader has a built-in compass. It uses this compass to determine on
which track the current rail vehicle is located by remembering in which direction the previous
tag was read.