IBS 2900L RF

Radio Frequency Portable Terminal

List Price - Portable $985 - Base Unit $395 + accessories

The IBS-2900L RF is a rugged, user friendly, low-cost radio frequency portable terminal that provides powerful features for efficient bar code reading and keypad data entry remotely from your host computer.

MENU-DRIVEN OPERATION
When you power up the IBS-2900L RF, you will see the MAIN MENU which is comprised of three Menus:

RF-TERMINAL
In this menu, the user may login the host computer, receive prompt, message, command and data from the host, and transmit bar code or keypad entry data to the host.

SITE SURVEY
In this menu, you may walk around your office or warehouse to make sure that the base unit covers the area you expect, or you may add satellite units to have more area covered.

SET UP
In this menu, you may configure Bar Code Symbologies, Terminal ID, Frequency Channel, Beep Tone, Terminator, Scanning Mode, and Function Keys.

 

SELECTABLE FREQUENCY CHANNELS
There are 4 selectable frequency channels - 951, 912, 915, and 921 MHz. User may select the channel with no interference from other RF equipment.

TERMINAL ID
Each IBS-2900L RF will be assigned an ID and polled by the base unit. The data sent to the host from the terminal have a header with the ID information in it. The data sent from the host to the terminal also need to include a header with the terminal ID information in it.

VERSATILE INPUT DEVICES
The IBS-2900L RF can auto-discriminate between all the popular bar code symbologies: Code 39, UPC/EAN, Codabar, Interleaved 2 of 5, MSI/Plessy and Code 128. It support all types of bar code input devices such as: Wand, CCD, Laser scanner or magstripe scanner.

MULTIPLE POWER SOURCE
The IBS-2900L RF can be operated with 3 AA batteries for portable operation, or with an external power adapter when used as a fixed terminal.

LONG BATTERY LIFE
3 AA Alkaline batteries can give you approximately 35,000 scans with a laser scanner. That's nearly 10 hours of continuous use of the terminal.

COMMAND BASE UNIT
The command base unit can control up to eight (8) IBS-2900L RF terminals. It connects to the serial port of the host computer. It polls each RF terminal to check if data is ready to be sent to the host. If the data is ready, the command base receives the data and passes it to the host. It then sends the prompt, message, command, and data to the RF terminals.

PROGRAMMING THE IBS-2900L RF
It requires programming on the host so that the host can talk to the IBS-2900L RF through the serial port. No matter what programming language you are using, as long as you can access the serial port, you may use the IBS-2900L RF. This programming for accessing the serial port is relatively easy; the main effort would be to develop all the application code.