ACURA presents Sargas, a new reader designed to enable system integrators and OEMs to speed the development of RFID solutions to reduce the time-to-market with less overhead than typical projects. It is estimated that this reader will be available for sale from August 2016.
The ThingMagic Sargas reader is a high-performance, networked, 2-antenna-port, UHF reader in a low profile enclosure. Built around the ThingMagic Micro reader module, the device reads more than 750 tags per second at distances over 9 meters (30 feet) when configured with appropriate antennas. With an onboard processor, memory and removable flash storage, the reader has features designed for a wide range of enterprise applications from retail and warehouse inventory to cold chain food management and healthcare.
"We make it easy for integrators and OEMs to bring their RFID applications to market by providing hardware, software and on-board processing for integration," said Brett Humphrys, general manager of Trimble's ThingMagic Division. "The enterprise features in the new Sargas UHF reader are an ideal illustration. For example, the built-in HDMI interface allows an integrator to add a display directly to the reader without external hardware, reducing cost and time-to-market. This capability is equally useful to an integrator using display peripherals for Human Machine Interface (HMI) in industrial applications, point of checkout for retail and warehouse applications or supervisory functions for parking applications."
ThingMagic Sargas UHF Reader Features
In addition to Ethernet, General Purpose Input/Output (GPIO), USB and 2 antenna ports, the ThingMagic Sargas UHF reader has extensive support for software development and application testing. The Sargas reader supports the ThingMagic Mercury API, which is common to all other ThingMagic readers and reader modules, reducing the amount of repetitive code required across a range of applications. There is a full Software Developers Kit (SDK) supporting Java, Dot-Net and C environments together with test tools such as the Universal Reader Assistant. The onboard processor runs a version of Linux so the reader can support additional application code with onboard memory and removable storage on a micro SD card. Finally, the Sargas reader supports the EPC Global Gen 2V2 (ISO 18000-63) protocol, RAIN™ (RAdio frequency IdentificatioN), EPC Global LLRP and extended protocols (may require additional licensing).
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