Ascii Protocol; Message Types And Formats; Messages Examples - Biomark IS1001 Operation User's Manual

Establishing Connection with IS1001 Reader

ASCII Protocol

ASCII protocol is used for communication between IS1001 reader 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 and BioStat programs to securely monitor, maintain, and
update an IS1001 reader. For more details refer to BioTerm and BioStat User Manual, available
at: http://www.biomark.com/help/manuals___instructions/.
The BioTerm and BioStat programs are 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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SRP: Used to define an abbreviated status report message
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NRP: Used to define an abbreviated noise report 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, TAG, SRP and NRP type messages have the following format:
<Identifier>: <Reader ID> <Date> <Time> <Message Body>

Messages Examples

ALM: 01 06/05/2019 11:06:35.750 Noise High
MSG: 01 06/05/2019 11:06:35.750 Noise In Spec.
TAG: 01 06/05/2019 11:06:35.750 3D9.2098AB0380
TAG: 01 06/05/2019 11:06:35.750 3D9.2098AB0380 30.0 C
TAG: 01 06/05/2019 11:06:35.750 3D9.2098AB0380 30.0 C 202 mV
SRP: 01 06/05/2019 11:06:35.750 16,4,212,0,0,126,140,131,19,219,263,0,0,0,0,0
NRP: 01 06/05/2019 11:06:35.750 0,19,18,60
INF type messages contain multiple lines and have two lines with identifier delineating the
beginning and the end of the message:
INF: Start Of Noise Report
Present Noise:
Maximum Noise:
Average Noise:
Time Averaged Over:
INF: End Of Noise Report
Note: An asterisk (*) at the beginning of a message indicates that the message is being sent as
part of a memory download.
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85 mV (9%)
177 mV (19%)
162 mV (18%)
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