Configuring Antenna Power

The Antenna Power configuration in FxConnect is part of the Operating Mode configuration in IoT Connector.

To configure the antenna power using Operating Mode the transmitPower field can be used. If the same transmit power is desired on all the antennas, the operating mode can be set as follows

IoT Connector Operating Mode to set the same transmit power on all antennas

 {
     "type": "CUSTOM",
     "transmitPower": 25
 }

To Configure different antenna power on each antenna, first the antennas to be used for reading tags must be specified using the antennas field and then the transmit power can be specified for each selected antenna.

IoT Connector Operating Mode to set different transmit power on each antenna of a 4 port reader

 {
     "type": "CUSTOM",
     "antennas": [1,2,3,4],
     "transmitPower": [20,22,25,30]
 }

The above operating mode specifies that antennas 1,2,3,4 of the 4 port reader is to be used for reading tags and the corresponding transmit powers are to be set to 20,22,35,30 dbm respectively.

Important

The transmit power is matched with the corresponding antenna in the antennas array. The length of the array for antennas must be same as the length of the array in transmitPower.