Text Communication and Control Terminal
The Navman MDT-860 Mobile Data Terminal enables the rapid development of a high quality customized product for solution providers. The MDT-860 provides a field proven, cost effective platform on which a vast array of products can be built, including: telemetry devices, modems, RFID readers, barcode scanners, swipe card readers, PLC’s, printers, etc
The MDT-860 is a robust solution for sending, receiving and storing messages. The enclosure is designed to survive thermal extremes and vibration. A built-in power supply is provided that is capable of operating in a wide variety of vehicles.
Key Features
- easy-to-read high-resolution graphic LCD display with variable backlighting
- multilingual font library with variable font sizes, types and text display functions
- MS Windows based Software Development Kit with programming capability available
- 248KB battery-backed SRAM
- one RS232 port, one RS232/RS485
- 21 keys + 4-way cursor key (backlit)
- international PC AT keyboard interface (PS/2)
- +8 to 30V input voltage
- ability to withstand wide ranges of temperature, vibration and shock
- environmentally friendly RoHS
Programmable Functionality
The MDT-860 enables flexible programming functionality. The programming capability extends to the LCD display, allowing you to create simple menus for pre-defined messages, and variable backlighting. A variable-volume annunciator can be programmed to alert operators to incoming messages.
The MDT-860 is up to the task of handling communication within a global economy. With a built-in multi-lingual font library, the MDT-860 enables communication via text messaging in countries around the world.
Software Development Kit
The MDT-860 Software Development Kit (SDK) offers system integrators a flexible environment for custom application development to meet specific mobile data requirements. The MDT contains robust Flash memory that is large enough to handle complex programming tasks.
Existing MDT-850 applications using the BDF font system can be easily modified with a supplied tool to make better use of the higher resolution screen and numeric keypad. All other functions remain unchanged.
The SDK comes with a conversion utility to allow applications requiring images to be updated to the new C-based format. A range of graphical operations are available, as well as support for bitmap fonts.