The Allen-Bradley Intelligent Antenna contains four configuration settings. These four settings are: Configuration

Tag Type

Object Detect Mode

Object Detect Timeout

RF Field Strength

CIMPLICITY software stores these four settings for every device (antenna) in your project in a standard Windows INI file named ABRFID.INI. This file resides in the %SITE_ROOT% (project root) directory.

Every time you start your CIMPLICITY project, the Allen-Bradley Intelligent Antenna communications enabler queries each antenna for its current configuration settings. It then compares these values against those in the ABRFID.INI file.

If the configuration settings for a particular antenna do not exist in the ABRFID.INI file (or the ABRFID.INI file does not exist), the file is updated (or created) with the antenna's current configuration settings.

If the configuration settings for a particular antenna exist in the ABRFID.INI file, and the four values match the current antenna configuration, then no further action is taken.

If the configuration settings for a particular antenna exist in the ABRFID.INI file, and any of the four values do not match the antenna's current configuration, then the values from the ABRFID.INI file are written to the antenna, updating the antenna's configuration.

More information

	Updating an antenna's configuration file.
	Updating the antenna configuration settings.
	Viewing an antenna's current configuration.
	About Allen-Bradley Intelligent Antenna communications.

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