Data cou­plers from Bal­luff en­sure a max­i­mum de­gree of flex­i­bil­ity. They se­curely trans­mit the data via two air in­ter­faces. In so doing, they han­dle the con­tact­less bridg­ing of the two tran­si­tions in­stead of a fixed data trans­mis­sion.

The data cou­plers are gen­er­ally used where a dou­ble me­chan­i­cal in­ter­face is in­dis­pens­able, for ex­am­ple, with ro­tary ta­bles, re­place­able work­piece holder or grip­per arms. In this way, you can sim­plify your sys­tem de­sign and in­crease the sys­tem avail­abil­ity be­cause of fast con­tact­ing, such as in tool chang­ing.

The fea­tures

• Data cou­plers work like an ex­ten­sion cable
• Main­te­nance-free trans­mis­sion with­out me­chan­i­cal wear
• Fast and se­cure sig­nal trans­mis­sion
• Var­i­ous cable lengths: 1 m, 2 m and 5 m
• Easy wiring of e.g. ro­tary ta­bles, ex­change­able punch heads,
• In­crease in func­tional in­quiries, even in pre­vi­ously in­ac­ces­si­ble places

Data car­ri­ers ac­com­pany the work­pieces through the en­tire pro­duc­tion process. In this con­text, they are ex­posed to ex­treme con­di­tions such as high tem­per­a­tures, metal en­clo­sure or en­vi­ron­men­tal in­flu­ences.

Data car­ri­ers from Bal­luff with­stand the high re­quire­ments: They are in­sen­si­tive to in­ter­fer­ence in a metal en­clo­sure, high-per­form­ing in a re­frig­er­ant- and lu­bri­cant-rich en­vi­ron­ment and suit­able for use in de-ion­ized water in an au­to­clave and in a vac­uum.

The fea­tures

• Va­ri­ety of spe­cial data car­ri­ers for nearly all areas of in­dus­try
• Ro­bust, in­dus­trial-grade weather and tem­per­a­ture-re­sis­tant RFID data car­ri­ers
• EEP­ROM data car­ri­ers with 511, 1023, 2047 byte mem­ory ca­pac­ity
• FRAM data car­ri­ers with 8 kbytes for prac­ti­cally un­lim­ited read/write cy­cles
• As­sem­bly pos­si­bil­i­ties: Ad­he­sion or screws
• 10 mm tool-ID BIS C-122 data car­rier: The clas­sic used a mil­lion times is a global stan­dard
• Key data car­rier with dou­ble coils avoids pal­let ro­ta­tions in the pal­let iden­ti­fi­ca­tion
• Code car­rier pro­gram­ming ac­cord­ing to cus­tomer de­sire

Our read/write de­vices are ide­ally suited for mo­bile read­ing and writ­ing of BIS C data car­ri­ers. They are used with man­ual qual­ity con­trol or in the doc­u­men­ta­tion of main­te­nance pro­ce­dures.

The data is trans­mit­ted via WLAN, Blue­tooth or cable-con­nected USB port. The hand­held de­vices are ex­pand­able with 1D or 2D bar­code read­ers. They de­liver re­li­able re­sults even with poor light­ing and under harsh con­di­tions.

The fea­tures

• Win­dows CE® V6.0 op­er­at­ing sys­tem
• Dif­fer­ent an­tenna vari­ants avail­able de­pend­ing on data car­rier se­lec­tion
• Range de­pends on an­tenna vari­ant
• Charg­ing power sup­ply and op­er­at­ing pin in­cluded in the scope of sup­ply
• Base de­vice is the pow­er­ful Zebra Work­about Pro 4 Mo­bile Com­puter
• Pre­in­stalled Bal­luff soft­ware (SDK – Soft­ware De­vel­op­ment Kit)
• Touch­screen with large color dis­play
• Op­tional ac­ces­sories: Dock­ing sta­tion and pis­tol grip for er­gonomic work­ing
• Cus­tomer-spe­cific soft­ware on re­quest

Our ap­pli­ca­tion-spe­cific read/write heads in in­dus­trial-grade de­sign en­able easy in­te­gra­tion in the sys­tem. Their ro­bust hous­ings in pro­tec­tion type IP67 en­sure a re­li­able use even in harsh in­dus­trial en­vi­ron­ments.

De­pend­ing on the need, var­i­ous ver­sions with cable or plug con­nec­tion avail­able. Up to four read/write heads can be con­nected to BIS V proces­sor units. The read/write range de­pends on the com­bi­na­tion of read/write head and data car­rier that is used. This is ad­di­tion­ally in­flu­enced by the op­er­at­ing mode (sta­tic ver­sus dy­namic), the as­sem­bly ma­te­r­ial and the open zone for metal.

The fea­tures

• Spe­cial tool ID read/write heads in Ø 14.5 mm or M16 for flush in­stal­la­tion in metal
• Cable avail­able in 1 m, 5 m and 10 m
• Cable can­not be cut to length; only in this way is func­tion­al­ity en­sured
• BC­C0FCK con­nec­tion cable re­quired for con­nec­tion to the BIS V proces­sor unit
• In­di­vid­ual cus­tomer de­signs pos­si­ble

Our read heads with in­te­grated proces­sor unit com­bine every­thing in one hous­ing: An­tenna, elec­tron­ics and in­ter­face. For quick and easy data car­rier pro­gram­ming, you can use the free PC soft­ware BIS Cock­pit. It is also pos­si­ble to pro­gram the data car­rier via a proces­sor unit with a se­r­ial con­nec­tion and Bal­luff 007 pro­to­col.

The fea­tures

• BIS C-60R: The eas­i­est read-only sys­tem for sim­ple ap­pli­ca­tions
• Makes avail­able the 8-bit in­for­ma­tion in par­al­lel with­out ad­di­tional com­po­nents
• 3 bytes per value are al­ways used start­ing with ad­dress 0
• The re­main­ing bytes on the data car­ri­ers are also us­able for other pur­poses (with the cor­re­spond­ing proces­sor units)