Introduction

AdvanPay-10 is an RFID high performance reader that integrates an antenna with a highly confined reading area.

This RFID point of sale reader provides a solution with the minimum cost. AdvanPay-10 is the most cost-effective model of the AdvanPay family. 

AdvanPay-10 requires an external point of sale computer for receiving and sending data. It does not include an on-board computer as AdvanPay-120 and AdvanPay-170. 

AdvanPay-10 is available in two different models: 

• Flush mount

• Desktop mount

AdvanPay-10 has a highly confined reading area, even with far field RFID tags. It only reads the tags that are placed slightly above its surface, which avoids reading unwanted RFID tags. 

AdvanPay-10 can be used together with AdvanSafe, AdvanMat or AdvanGate to provide a complete loss prevention system fully based on RFID UHF

Getting Started

Helpful downloads:

• • Download Datasheet

1. Power AdvanPay-10 unit

Follow this diagram to power AdvanPay-10: 

Another typical scenario is to use a Single Board Computer

It is even possibleto control AdvanPay-10 from a Microcontroller with uart and a minimum available RAM/ROM. In such case:

• The USB data (Serial Over USB) must be converted to uart level.

• The USB +5V must provide enough power to operate AdvanPay-10 to its designated power.

3. Device discovery

Once AdvanPay is powered up and connected to a computer, a serial port is created on the host computer.

• On Linux, they will appear as /dev/ttyUSBx devices

• On Windows, they will appear as COMxx virtual COM ports

• On other platform the naming convention may change

Although very unusual, if the device does not appear as a serial port (COM or /dev/xxxx), install the drivers from the following link.

4. Operation

Once AdvanPay is powered and the serial port is created in the host computer, it is time to send commands to AdvanPay to start operation.

In case the host computer is a Windows machine, the recommended first step is to make sure AdvanPay works by using the Universal Reader Assistant (URA) SW.

This is a demo application that allows to operate AdvanPay-10 using an easy GUI interface.

4.1 Integration

AdvanPay-10 RFID is managed by ThingMagic Jadak M6e-nano RFID module. That means ThingMagic Jadak SDK (Mercury API.) can be used straight away. Please download the latest SDK and documentation at ThingMagic support site:

• Mercury SDK

  • Designed for developers, the ThingMagic Mercury API is exceptionally versatile, written in Java, C and C#, and it supports the following application types:

    • Windows, Linux, and MacOS (C/C++, C#, Java)

    • .NET Framework, .NET Compact Framework, and .NET Core (C#)

    • Android (Java)

    • Microcontrollers (C/C++)

  • With tones of examples that cover all features.

• Universal Reader Assistant

  • Windows Demo application with available source code.

Examples

Please check the examples in the AdvanReader-10 Wiki page.