Collecting Data From Ble Data Logger; Ascii Protocol; Message Types And Formats; Establishing Rs-232 Port Connection And Downloading Data - Biomark IS1001 User Manual

Collecting Data from BLE Data Logger

Collecting Data from BLE Data Logger
Stored data can be collected from the BLE Data Logger's internal flash memory in two ways:
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Establishing the RS-232 port connection and downloading data to a PC.
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Establishing the Bluetooth connection and downloading data to a PC.

ASCII Protocol

ASCII protocol is used for communication between a BLE Data Logger and a PC. ASCII
(American Standard Code for Information Interchange) is a character-encoding scheme based on
the ordering of the English alphabet. A string of 7 binary digits represents each character. This is
the simplest communications protocol. It transmits only ASCII characters and uses ASCII control
codes. It implies little or no error checking. This protocol is supported by the BioTerm and BioStat
programs developed by Biomark and by most standard communications programs such as
Terminal, HyperTerminal, Tera Term Pro, ProComm, PuTTY, etc.
Biomark recommends using BioTerm program to securely monitor, maintain, and update a BLE
Data Logger. For more details refer to BioTerm and BioStat User Manual available at:
http://www.biomark.com/help/manuals___instructions/.
The BioTerm program is available for download at:
http://www.biomark.com/help/firmware___applications/.

Message Types and Formats

To help sort the data, all messages have an identifier that delineates their type:
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MSG: Used to define an informational message
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ALM: Used to define an alarm or error message
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TAG: Used to define a tag ID message
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INF: Used to define the beginning or end of multi-line informational messages (such as
reports, memory downloads, etc.)
MSG, ALM type messages have the following format:
<Identifier>: <Date> <Time> <Message Body>
TAG type messages have the following format:
<Identifier>: <Reader ID> <Date> <Time> <Message Body>
INF type messages contain multiple lines and have two lines with identifier delineating the
beginning and the end of the message.
Note: An asterisk (*) at the beginning of a message indicates that the message is being sent as
part of a memory download.

Establishing RS-232 Port connection and Downloading Data

Stored data can be downloaded from the internal flash memory using the RS-232 port connection:
1. Attach a DB-9 serial communication cable (male DB-9 connector; cable not supplied) to the
RS-232 port of the BLE Data Logger.
2. Attach the other end of the cable (female DB-9 connector) to a PC.
3. Start the BioTerm communication program.
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