iMotion 5.1 is the latest significant release of GlobeRanger’s flagship product. It brings to bear features categorized into five major design pillars:
- Improved Usability
- Improved Performance
- Improved Durability
- Standards Compliance
- Market Driven Requirements
Although the official product datasheet will provides a much more comprehensive and compelling description of each feature, a distilled list of features organized by category is listed below for brevity:
Major Usability Improvements
- Consistent look-and-feel and user experience
- Contextual descriptions to increase dialog intuitiveness
- Object renaming support within the EMC
- Object duplication support within the EMC for rapid configuration
- Comprehensive multi-select support within the EMC for batch operations
- Multi-project start and stop within the Device Emulator and Event Workflow Editor
Major Durability Improvements
- General improvements to increase reliability
- Automatic recovery support in ALE and B-ALE components to increase workflow resiliency
Major Performance Improvements
- Faster EDM startup times
- Dramatically improved EMC responsiveness
- Faster EMC to EDM transaction response times
- Reduced EDM working memory set
- Reduced CPU utilization and smaller working memory set in the Device Emulator
Standards Compliance
- Gen2
- Updated reader adapters
- Extended data support in ALE
- Gen2 reader and tag emulation in the Device Emulator
- ALE 1.0 with extensions
- TDS 1.24 and 1.27 with plugin support for future encodings
Market Driven Requirements
- Accessible according to the Microsoft Accessibility Design Guidelines to extend support for the hearing, vision, and physically impaired.
- Globalized to enable use on non-English versions of Windows.
- Encrypted EDM to EPM communications for secured communications.
- RF control within reader controllers through binary device triggers.
- Device Emulator SDK enhancements to support non-RFID devices and hardware.
- Ability to modify Device Emulator control images at runtime.
- Event Workflow Editor stencils for increased component portability and management
- Additional ALE and BALE application components to support advanced deployments.
- Event Monitor support for ALE Reports
My name is Daniel Hernandez. I currently work as a product development manager for iMotion, GlobeRanger's edgeware product. I'll use this blog to publish relevant iMotion and RFID content as a way to contribute to and enhance the experience of the growing GlobeRanger user community.
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