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Intergraph Smart Materials MobileScan Help (5.0 SP1)
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MobileScan now allows you to scan materials using bluetooth signals. This requires bluetooth beacons attached to materials. Any beacon near the mobile device, with bluetooth turned-on, would be captured by MobileScan application. MobileScan supports Eddystone format to detect beacons that emit bluetooth signals.

Bluetooth beacons and Eddystone format

Eddystone is an open beacon format developed by Google and can be detected by both Android and iOS devices. MobileScan supports Eddystone-UID type. You must set up your beacons with Eddystone-UID format.

Eddystone-UID - A unique, static ID with a 10-byte Namespace component and a 6-byte Instance component.

RFID

MobileScan application displays both active and passive RFIDs.

Active RFID - uses the RFID number and the Received Signal Strength Indicator (RSSI) active signal strength.

Passive RFID - uses only the RFID number.

To effectively use RFID tags in MobileScan application, you must map the RFID tag with a barcode in one of the following ways:

MobileScan application behavior

To effectively use bluetooth beacons or RFID tags, you must understand MobileScan application behavior:

General behavior

  • Item quantity for RFID scans would always be 1.

Tiles other than Receive

  • All beacons/RFID's irrespective of the status are displayed. If the:

    • Beacons/RFID's are mapped, the application displays the ident and the tag details.

    • Beacons/RFID is not mapped, the application displays status RFID was not found.

    • item is received, the application displays status Received.

  • The Beacons/RFID dialog allows you to select all the listed beacons/RFID's (in the offline mode, you can also select the beacons/RFID's that are not mapped). After selection, when you tap Done and then tap , the request is sent to the Sync tile. The validation with the server is initiated after the application goes online.

For customers encoding the RFID, MobileScan application decodes the hexadecimal value and displays the normal readable text.