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>> THANG: Hey this is an overview of the Deskmate from ATM Software Solutions. It's an easy
to use generation 2 reader as well as writer. This is the actual unit here. As you can see,
there's an LED indicator up in the front. There's different options that you can choose
from. Again, they're indicators of what's going on with the unit. You know, it's actually
small, has the ability to be powered by USB which is actually being plugged in now currently.
It goes from a standard mini USB cable, as you can see here, to a standard USB 2.0 cable.
The ability to be powered by USB is a great feature due to the fact that again, it uses
less power but at the same time, still has excellent range. The unit is 5.5 inches wide,
4 inches deep and 1.3 inches tall. There is the side of the unit and then, here is the
back of the unit. Again, there are multiple antenna options that you can choose from.
The one that is currently supplied here does have a read limit of 1.5 meters which is 2.92
feet or when used with other antennas, such as this one here which is actually powered
with a longer cable, it can read ten feet or above. [pause] What's nice about the unit
is that it takes less than a second to boot and accept commands. DeskMate actually uses
an efficient RF amplifier scheme. This actually allows the unit to run more efficiently making
it run much cooler in temperature and it also allows it to have excellent range. Again,
that can be upwards of 10 feet with a larger antenna or 4.92 feet with the standard antenna
supplied. [pause] This is an efficient reader, it actually reads up to 150 tags per second
but typically it will read 50 tags per second.