ThingMagic M5e-Compact - Manual (Page 21)

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Introduction
The ThingMagic ® Mercury ® embedded modules are RFID engines that you can integrate
with other systems to create RFID-enabled products.
Applications to control the M5e-Family of modules and derivative products can be written
in the low level Serial Protocol
Command Set and also using the high level MercuryAPI.
The MercuryAPI supports Java and .NET environments starting with version 1.1 and C
starting with version 1.5. The MercuryAPI Software Development Kit (SDK) contains
sample applications and source code to help developers get started demoing and
developing functionality. For more information on the MercuryAPI see the
MercuryAPI
Programmers Guide and the MercuryAPI SDK , available on the ThingMagic website.
For assistance using thelow level Serial Protocol Command Set a comprehensive user
interface called the Reader Assistant provides screens to configure the reader, and read
from and write to tags and displays the resulting serial commands in its Serial Log . In
addition, there are screens for updating firmware and debugging. For those
communications that cannot be provided by the
Reader Assistant , source code for the
ArbSer application (available upon request from [email protected]) is available.
ArbSer is a terminal program with which you can communicate with the modules. ArbSer
uses commands that are detailed in this document. See Command Set .
This document is for developers and explains how to incorporate the Mercury5e (M5e) or
M5e-Compact product within a third-party host system.
Note
For an overview of the Developer’s Kit hardware and initial setup information
see
Appendix B: Getting Started - Devkit