Mercury API

The ThingMagic Mercury API makes it easy for system integrators, OEMs and ISVs to discover, provision and control ThingMagic readers – removing complexities, speeding RFID solution development and resulting in a quicker return on investment.

An extensive software development kit (SDK) with example applications and sample code in Java and C#, the Mercury API offers a consistent programmatic interface across all ThingMagic fixed and embedded readerproducts. The intuitively designed and well documented Mercury API requires little RFID expertise, enabling developers to rapidly design and test:

  • Reader and tag commands
  • Advanced read functionality such as setting antennas, protocols and filtering criteria
  • Advanced tag operations such as killing and locking tags
  • Privacy and security features
  • Performance and memory optimization

The ThingMagic Mercury API is available for several different programming languages, is written in Java and C#, and supports the following application types:

  • .NET applications in the .NET Compact Framework v2.0
  • Windows applications in the .NET Framework
  • Windows applications in the Java Framework
  • Linux (Intel) and MacOSX applications in the Java Framework

The Mercury API communicates with readers through a TCP-based network connection or via local serial ports. On-reader applications are supported on the Mercury5 and Astra readers through a “C” API or Linux shell scripts.

The Mercury API is available now to existing customers from the ThingMagic support website.


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Achieve 100% Reads

"If a live tag was in the carton, the ThingMagic Mercury RFID readers caught it and achieved 100 percent read rates, with no misreading of any of the 13,500 RFID tags. In fact, we had some cartons with over 100 items, which we thought might result in RFID read errors due to high density and shielding of tags, but these, too, were read at 100 percent"

-- Frank Cornelius, New Balance