interrogator
/ɪnˈtɛrəɡeɪtə
/noun
1A person who questions someone closely, aggressively, or formally: he was questioned for two months by military interrogators
2A device that obtains data from a computer file, database, storage device, or terminal: the interrogator forwards the data to a server...
- The data the interrogator collects may be used by some application such as inventory control.
- Some commands (such as LOCK and UNLOCK) configure certain behavior or capability in the interrogator.
- The interrogator has the facility of analyzing data on a channel-by-channel basis for any data file.
2.1An electronic device that transmits a signal to another device to obtain information about identity, condition, etc. an airborne interrogator