Possibilities And Application Areas For Antenna Configurations - Siemens SIMATIC RF600 System Manual

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4.3 Antenna configurations
4.3.2

Possibilities and application areas for antenna configurations

Some basic antenna configurations and possible fields of application are shown below.
Please note for the possible configurations, that up to four external antennas can be
connected to the RF660R reader and up to two external antennas can be connected to the
RF630R reader. No external antennas can be connected to the RF620R reader. It has an
integrated antenna.
Antenna configuration 1:
42
Description/ application areas
This arrangement of antennas is
appropriate when the tags to be read are
only located on one side of the goods to
be acquired, for example, if a conveyor
with passing goods has to be monitored
during production and it is precisely
defined on which side the tags to be read
are attached.
① Tag
This antenna configuration is possible
with the following readers:
RF630R with one antenna
•
RF620R
•
System Manual, 10/2009, J31069-D0171-U001-A8-7618
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