The IceKey HF is a USB RFID reader manufactured by Tertium Technology. It is designed to perform read/write operations on HF (high frequency) RFID tags. For more information, visit Tertium Technology’s product page for the IceKey HF. Serialio.com is a certified reseller of Tertium Technology products.
Cloud-In-Hand is Serialio’s scalable mobile solutions framework. To learn more about Cloud-In-Hand, visit https://cloud-in-hand.com.
BlueSnap dongles are used to Bluetooth enable RS-232 devices. BlueSnap dongles are available in 9-pin male or female connections. These units are also available in battery powered (two AAA batteries – rechargeable or alkaline) or externally powered modules. BlueSnap Standard units are compatible with Serial Port Profile (SPP) or Human Interface Device (HID) configurations and
Batch mode is ideal for when the user wants to use the scanner wirelessly to accumulate all the scanned data in the scanner’s internal memory until the scanner is plugged into a host device (typically a Windows or Mac computer). Once plugged into the host device, the batch data can be sent all at once to
Appload is Opticon’s Windows utility for loading firmware and application files onto Opticon brand barcode scanners. Additionally, Appload includes an RS-232 terminal for configuring and retrieving information from Opticon scanners via command codes. For more information about Appload, visit Opticon support.
Bluetooth Pairing Modes Bluetooth LE (BLE), SPP, HID are all Bluetooth profiles (sometimes called “pairing modes”). Why use Bluetooth BLE? On iOS there is MFi mode which is SPP with Apple restrictions, so only approved devices can connect to iOS devices. The main usability difference between the Bluetooth BLE & HID/SPP/MFi, is the pairing process. With
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Control characters are characters that do not representable a printable character but instead serves to initiate a specific action. There are various types of control characters, including printing control characters, data structuring control characters, and transmission control characters—many of which are often used in the prefix or suffix configurations of barcode and RFID scanners. Some applications, such
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SerialPort is the world’s first, and still foremost Java product for serial ports. SerialPort provides highly flexible control of serial ports from your Java application. SerialPort is a high-performance class that also provides low-level serial port control. If your device plugs into a serial port—on or off the Internet—it is almost certain that you can
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SerialPort works with Java 1.x (1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6, 1.7, 1.8) applications and trusted applets. Java 1.0.2 is supported on Windows. If you need support for a platform we don’t currently support, we may be able to provide a custom port for you at a reasonable cost. SerialPort should work with any Java
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It is unfortunate, but there seems to be much confusion about what 100% Pure Java means. One of the requirements for 100% Pure is that classes do not contain native methods. Since native methods are required to implement the Java Virtual Machine (VM), this in effect means that Java itself is not 100% pure. Only
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