RFID

Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) techology offers a promise to revolutionize supply chain management for monitoring and tracking goods from production to consumption. RFID chips, embedded in boxes and pellets, allow automatic detection and monitoring by stationary or handheld readers to track inventory, monitor counterfeiting and manage shipments.

To enable such processes, our terminal emulation and web browser use the Scripting engine to control the RFID reader for both TE and web browser sessions. All native capabilities of the RFID reader are accessible. RFID integration is supported using the industry standard JavaScript programming language, which is familiar to most programmers and is a driving force behind the rich next-generation web based applications.

The RFID integration support allows nearly limitless flexibility for reading, writing, inventory, and other RFID tag operations. The web browser provides an especially powerful environment to build highly interactive stand-alone or casually-connected RFID applications. Legacy applications using terminal emulation can also be “RFID enabled” with little or no changes to the existing application.

Here are some of the special benefits from RFID support within our TE and Browser:

JavaScript.
Our products use the industry standard JavaScript scripting language. This powerful language is familiar to programmers and non-programmers world-wide as the core of rich web applications. With JScript, the Microsoft version of JavaScript, additional features are available such as the ability to use ActiveX objects in scripts.
Full Support for RFID features.
The RFID Control Object within our TE and Browser provides access to all native features of the RFID reader. This includes setting all parameters, controlling reads, writes, locks and inventories, and retrieving statistical reports.
Full Access from both TE and Browser Sessions.
Both terminal emulation and browser sessions can control the RFID device. The user can switch between multiple sessions, with each having different settings and operations. For example, a TE session may be performing inventory operations whereas a web session may be reading barcodes and programming RFID tags with the corresponding information.
CETerm Automation Objects.
CETerm Automation Objects are available to access and control the state of CETerm, the state of a TE or web browser session, the mobile device, and the Windows CE Operating System. Together these objects provide a rich set of features to build complex RFID operations, including stand-alone and casually-connected applications which store RFID results locally and later forward to a host system.