In a nutshell:The FieldServer reads data from field devices.This data can be used to animate web pages that can be served by the FieldServer.Using a browser, a customer or user can monitor data from f…
Many Modbus TCP clients send polls with the Station / Device address (ID) set to zero.
FieldServers cannot be configured as station zero so they cannot res…
Chipkin offers solutions that convert data from Modbus (RTU/TCP) and makes it
available to devices that support a different protocol e.g. Modbus RTU to B…
Lonworks is another communications protocol useful in
building automation applications. The protocol was developed by the Echelon Corporation
in the late 1990s. Lonworks or…
In many legacy industrial automation environments, Modbus implementations were restricted by a 5-digit addressing convention. This often limited the number of objects of each type to…
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This article describes a common issue sometimes seen when using a USB-to-Serial converter
(for example, the USB-Comi) on a PC in an RS-485 workflow: the…
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