Environmental Conditions; General Procedure - Siemens SIMATIC RF600 System Manual

Antennas
6.2 Guidelines for selecting RFID UHF antennas
6.2.3.2

Environmental conditions

CAUTION
Damage to the device
In line with the application, you must take into consideration the mechanical loads (shock
and vibration) as well as environmental demands such as temperature, moisture, UV
radiation.
The device could be damaged if these factors are not considered.
6.2.3.3

General procedure

Depending on whether you wish to use a third-party antenna or antenna cable - or both - in
combination with the SIMATIC RF660R reader, these instructions will help you to select the
components and to set the important parameters in the SIMATIC RF660R configuration
software.
There are two different application cases:
● Selection of third-party components:
● Configuration of existing third-party components:
Procedure for selecting third-party components
Always proceed in the following order during your considerations and the practical
implementation:
1. Consider which third-party components you wish to use in the SIMATIC RF600 system.
2. Depending on the third-party component required, refer either to Section Antennas
3. Use the specified equations to calculate your missing parameters, and check whether the
4. Configure the reader with the parameters of your third-party components. You can
5. For advanced users or in exceptional cases, e.g. input of an antenna gain <4.0 dBi), it is
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you wish to select appropriate third-party components for the SIMATIC RF600 system
and to subsequently configure the reader for these components.
you already have third-party components (antenna, antenna cable or both) and wish to
appropriately configure the reader for these components.
(Page 153) or Section Antenna cables (Page 165) for the important criteria for selection
of your components. The selection criteria/parameters are sorted in descending
relevance.
required values are reached (e.g. antenna gain) and that important secondary values
(e.g. cable loss) are not exceeded or undershot.
usually carry this out in the SIMATIC RF660R configuration software. The exact
procedure is described in Section Setting of parameters in the SIMATIC RF660R
configuration software (Page 168).
recommendable to carry out the configuration directly using XML commands. For further
information, refer to Section .
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