Socket usage
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|Company name| functions as a TCP client that establishes a connection to a TCP server. On the sensor side, the server software implemented by the sensor manufacturer (e.g. scanner, camera) defines a specific address and port which can be configured in SensorHandler. |Company name| and the server on the sensor side communicate with each other using the exchange format defined as "|Company protocol name|".

The |Company protocol name| TCP client supports long-lived communication over a socket, operating in a simplex communication mode. The server waits for incoming requests from the |Company name| client and **always** needs to respond to each request with a reply.

A new message from |Company name| on the same socket will be processed by the server only after the previous one has been fully handled.

The implementation on the server side needs to be thread safe. Due to internal synchronization mechanisms this might cause minor delays in response times.