INFICON DataFID Portable Flame Ionization Detector for Leak Detection and Repair (LDAR) - Manual (Page 76)

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. WIRELESS COMMUNICATION
The DataFID uses a Bluetooth communication chip as the means to download and upload
information to and from the DataFID memory. The users must be sure that the Bluetooth
communication device software and Bluetooth device are running, paired and active when trying
to communicate with the DataFID.
NOTE: When the unit has been powered off, the computer or PDA must reinitiate
communication with the Bluetooth chip in the DataFID. This must be done each time the unit
has been powered off.
Wireless Communication Range
Most Bluetooth devices are capable of transmission approximately 30 feet away from the
send/receive device (in this case the computer or PDA to the DataFID and vice versa). Users
should be aware that the signals sent from the DataFID and the computer/ PDA are not capable
of transmissions through such items as steel doors and floors which disperse and block the
transmission signal. Most manufacturers will provide some sort of signal strength meter within
their software that will advise the user if a communications link between the receiving device
and the sending device is functioning and, in some cases, the signal strength.
Pairing
Bluetooth-enabled instruments need to be paired with the receiving or sending base which is
typically a computer or PDA. The pairing protocol will create a communications port for the
computer linking device, and will then begin a search for Bluetooth serial communications
devices. This pairing will occur during a send receive from the unit setup within the
computer/PDA when the user selects a specific device serial number from within the DataFID
unit. Most software programs from Bluetooth-enabled devices will find available DataFID units
with the sending unit. This serial number is not the INFICON DataFID serial number which is
etched into the casing but rather the serial number of the Bluetooth send/receive chip within the
DataFID. For instance, DataFID unit serial number AZ300505 has a Bluetooth chip within it
having the serial number ending in: C001. Users should rename and add in the DataFID serial
number to the information for the Bluetooth serial number as to not confuse the data
transmission and download or upload from other units accessing the Bluetooth software
program.