Created Date: December 07,2012

Created by: kewakl

First, I'll ask some questions, since you provided relatively little information about your application.

Is RFID Required or Desired?

Do you have a large number of items to be RFID TAGGED?

--- It may not be appropriate to invest in RFID infrastructure if you only have a small number things that need to be identified

Do you need to identify your items for long-term or short-term?

Can barcodes work?

--- Do you have a reason that a simple barcode cannot be sufficient?

... Printed barcodes for temporary identification

... stamped or etched barcodes for longer-term identification however chemicals, abrasion, temperatures, paint (...) can alter the readability of the barcode

Do you need read/ write access to the Identifying Device ?

Now to attempt to answer your question:

Trying to understand how to get this into the PAC, yes through the serial port (?)

Which port would depend on the RFID hardware you choose - and the distance from RFID hardware to PAC.

I am using some ethernet RFID hardware. It watches RFID tags go by. At one location I can program the ID number into the RFID Tags. My PAC (over the ethernet cable) uses modbus reads to query the RFID hardware. (as fast as I want to clog my network ;))

Created Date: December 03,2012

Created by: SouthwestMfg

Hi All,

I am looking for some input on using RFID equipment and connecting to a PLC/PAC system. Looking at using Productivity 3k PAC. Looks like there is a lot of RFID equipment out there, not sure where to start. Most of these have serial output, I'm assuming this is a bit like a bar-code reader. Trying to understand how to get this into the PAC, yes through the serial port (?). Any experience with this would be appreciated. - Thanks in advance.

Paul Swinney