Senatek LS100 manual Introduction, Overview

1: Introduction

1.1 Overview

The HelloDevice Lite Series allows you to network-enable a variety of serial devices that were not originally designed to be networked. This capability brings the advantages of remote management and data accessibility to thousands of serial devices over the network.

The LS100 is a most cost effective one port serial-Ethernet communication device. The LS100 supports RS232 serial communication allowing virtually any asynchronous serial device to be accessed over a network.

As for the Internet connectivity, the LS100 supports open network protocols such as TCP/IP allowing serial devices to be accessed over broadband network or conventional LAN (Local Area Network) environment.

The LS100 provides the management console using Telnet and serial console port under the password protection support. And the LS100 also provides the management function using the HelloDevice Manager Software Utility.

The LS100 was designed to accommodate the unique requirements of the Retail POS, Security, Automation and Medical marketplaces.

Parts of this manual assume the knowledge on concepts of the Internetworking protocols and serial communications. If you are not familiar with these concepts, please refer to the standards or the documentation on each subject.

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