ALR-F800-X SERIES with Emissary Enterprise RFID Reader & Edge Service Device where it combines Enterprise RFID Reader w/ Edge Service and simplifies Installation, Operations & Maintenance and provides Multi-Reader & Component Management Alien is Reinventing RFID with the ALR-F800-X, a Revolutionary Solution That Simplifies RFID Infrastructure Installation, Operations and Maintenance by Combining an Enterprise RFID Reader and Edge Service to Provide
ALR-F800-X SERIES with Emissary Enterprise RFID Reader & Edge Service Device where it combines Enterprise RFID Reader w/ Edge Service and simplifies Installation, Operations & Maintenance and provides Multi-Reader & Component Management
Alien is Reinventing RFID with the ALR-F800-X, a Revolutionary Solution That Simplifies RFID Infrastructure Installation, Operations and Maintenance by Combining an Enterprise RFID Reader and Edge Service to Provide Multiple-Reader visualization and Management.
Simplifies multi-read-point installations to speed TTM, lower configuration and installation costs and provide a logical, easy to understand visualization of the implementation and lets you focus on the business process needs and not managing the hardware
What is Emissary - As the industry’s first dynamic reader and peripheral management platform included at no additional cost, Emissary is included as standard in every ALR-F800-X Series reader. Enabled “out of the box”, Emissary allows configuration and support of additional readers and read points without the need of a traditional Edge Server in an intuitive and simple to use Graphical User Interface.
Emissary enables visualization of readers, antennas and peripherals such as traditional I/O devices (light stacks, motion sensors, door switches etc.) Into an easy to use GUI. Complete work flows may be developed using built-in Activities which result in simplified installation, operation and maintenance of an application.
Features:
• Reader + Multiple Reader Confi guration and Management in one device
• Class leading Global EPC Gen 2 4-port RFID Reader
• Same footprint as Alien’s ALR-F800 UHF Enterprise RFID Reader
• Built in handling of common chores
• DSA (Dynamic Self-Adapting) real-time read optimization
• Power source agnostic and auto-switching
• Feature-rich Alien Reader Protocol
• Dynamic Authentication of Higgs™ ICs
• Exceptional sensitivity and performance
• Automode, with on-board state machine
• RoHS EU 2002/95/EC compliant
• Plenum Rated (EAHS) per UL 2043
Benefits:
• Simple RFID installation and confi guration
• Simplifi es the complex description of a readpoint network and attached non-RFID devices
• Provides an infrastructure that Alien partners can leverage from
• Speeds time to system realization
The ALR-F800-X is a truly transformational product created by the merging two core capabilities present in any solution. It is an ALR-F800 based 4-port Enterprise Class UHF Passive Reader and it is an Edge Service controller or manager that supports other readers in the network providing a complete Industry 4.0 solution.
• By transforming the reader into both a middleware host AND an application host, multiple layers of complexity and cost are thereby eliminated.
• By processing data elements at the source, the VALUE of the data is exponentially increased, because individual read points throughout a vast enterprise can be examined and evaluated in real time. This adds immeasurably to the richness and quality of the Big Data analytic scenarios now emerging in every area of business life.
What is Emissary?
Emissary comes embedded inside the ALR-F800-X at no additional cost and is ready to use “out-of-the box” without the complexities associated with downloading special licenses. Each ALR-F800-X supports four additional readers (for fi ve readers in total), and no additional Edge Server is required (the ALR-F800-X performs this function). The ALR-F800-X with Emissary is designed to be low fuss and simple to use.
It visualizes readers, antenna and other IO devices into a more logical view that is more customer centric. A complete multi-reader/device workfl ow can be described from built in Activities resulting in simplified installation, operation and maintenance. Emissary consists of:
• A simple hierarchical virtualization of your read-point and device infrastructure
• Extrapolates device naming into your terminology: “Portal 3”, or “Wrap Station”…
• Defi nes logical, user friendly named locations and how the hardware is applied to these locations
• Provides a set of common Activities (e.g. Read tag, turn on light, send data...)
• Provides a Microsoft Windows based tool for the creation and handling of Workfl ows built from these Activities
• Simple set-up, control and maintenance of multiple local readers
• Automatic interpretation of the correct Tag Data Standard when tags are read
• Aggregation of tag read data (reports) into the ALR-F800-X where consolidated reports can then be transferred to the cloud or server (reducing data fl owing between them).
• All built-in to the ALR-F800-X. No downloads, installation or setup to install Emissary.
What does the ALR-F800-X and Emissary Solve?
• Readers and tags are now largely consistent, reliable and affordable.
• RFID is now solving many real-world problems in many verticals.
• Proven ROI
• Enables the automation of previously error-prone, expensive and/or ineffi cient processes or workflows
• Now the problem isn’t the RFID tags or readers…it’s integration, cooperation and confi guration
• 6 out of 10 projects experience IT and integration related delays.
• Deployments involve more integrated sensory technologies
• Inter-system communications shouldn’t detract from defi ning the implementation
• Today RFID readers are “data pumps”
• Route raw data to a localized edgeware server or PC for processing
• Processed data is then sent to the main host to achieve enterprise-wide visibility
• Complex edgeware/PC devices add cost and failure points
Alien has seen large implementations fail due to lack of system elegance and effi ciency, requiring project managers to continuously keep these disparate hardware and software elements in sync. The task, then, is to eliminate layers of complexity and cost, minimizing junctions of potential failure and greatly increasing system effi ciency and utility.
Key Points
• No license fees, no hassle
• Supports up to 4 other readers
• That’s 5 readers including the ALR-F800-X
• That’s 20 read points controlled in one device
• Additional ALR-F800-X’s can be used to support more than 5 readers
• Designed to enhance Aliens’ large Value Added Partners time-to-market.
The ALR-F800-X is a truly transformational product created by the merging two core capabilities present in any solution. It is an ALR-F800 based 4-port Enterprise Class UHF Passive Reader and it is an Edge Service controller or manager that supports other readers in the network providing a complete Industry 4.0 solution.
By transforming the reader into both a middleware host AND an application host, multiple layers of complexity and cost are thereby eliminated.
By processing data elements at the source, the VALUE of the data is exponentially increased, because individual read points throughout a vast enterprise can be examined and valuated in real time. This adds immeasurably to the richness and quality of the Big Data analytic scenarios now emerging in every area of business life.
KEY Features:• Reader + Multiple Reader Configuration and Management in one device
• Logical device and place naming
• Visualize hardware and peripherals
• Built in Activities
• Workflow creation tool
• Automatic Tag Data Standard interpretation
• Automatic aggregation of data
• Class leading Global EPC Gen 2 4-port RFID Reader
• Same footprint as Alien’s ALR-F800 UHF Enterprise Reader
• Built in handling of common chores
• DSA (Dynamic Self-Adapting) real-time read optimization
• Power source agnostic and auto-switching
• Feature-rich Alien Reader Protocol
• Dynamic Authentication of Higgs™ ICs
• Exceptional sensitivity and performance
• Automode, with on-board state machine
• RoHS EU 2002/95/EC compliant
• Plenum Rated (EAHS) per UL 2043
Alien Emissary
Emissary comes embedded inside the ALR-F800-X at no additional cost and is ready to use “out of the box” without the complexities associated with downloading special licenses. Each ALR-F800-X supports four additional readers (for five readers in total), and no additional Edge Server is required (the ALR-F800-X performs this function). The ALR-F800-X with Emissary is designed to be low fuss and simple to use.
It visualizes readers, antenna and other IO devices into a more logical view that is more customer centric. A complete multi-reader/device workflow can be described from built in Activities resulting in simplified installation, operation and maintenance.
Emissary consists of:• User-friendly and familiar device and location naming for multiple read-point environments;
• A simple mechanism to define and visualize how reader and non-reader hardware are applied to these various locations;
• Built-in common activities (such as read a tag, turn on a light);
• A Microsoft Windows tool for combining activities into the desired multi-reader and multi-
• I/O device workflows (across multiple readers);
• Automatic interpretation of the correct Tag Data Standard when tags are read; and
• Aggregation of tag read data (reports) into the ALR-F800-X where consolidated reports
• can then be transferred to the cloud or server (reducing data flowing between them).
