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News Release from: Siemens Automation and Drives | Subject: Simatic RF-Manager 2008
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 27 March 2008
RFID software links controllers and
terminals
Simatic RF-Manager 2008 now links RFID data with automation data from Simatic S7 controllers.
Siemens Industry Automation Division has released Simatic RF-Manager 2008, software that links RFID with automation data from Simatic S7 controllers and also collects data from mobile Simatic RF610M handheld terminals The software has been expanded with new functions for efficient configuration, fast commissioning and reliable maintenance
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 6 Mar 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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Simatic RF-Manager 2008 now links RFID data with automation data from Simatic S7 controllers.
Control tasks, for example, will be triggered by read events, for example a switch is set depending on the position of a tag (storage medium).
Write/read tasks for a write/read device (reader) can also be triggered by the controller.
RFID data which has already been read can be transmitted to the control system.
The engineering functions include a new editor for the simultaneous parameterisation of all RFID devices.
With new simulation functions, signal processes and RFID read events can be tested in advance without installed RFID hardware.
Tere are new system functions for the processing of user data in RF Manager.
Simatic RF-Manager 2008 is suitable for applications from the labelling of individual products to the automatic recording of entire commodity flows.
The software manages readers, collects the tag data produced by the readers, compresses the data and makes it available in the merchandise management system with the required accuracy and quantity.
Each individual tag can be accessed in order to read and write data or product identifiers which conform to EPC global (electronic product code).
The EPC global standard is promoting identification per RFID in the UHF (ultra-high frequency) range in order to optimise the value added chain.
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