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What is BACnet protocol or Modbus protocol. Does this all types of protocols will manged by any central body?
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BACnet is an building automation and control networking protocol. It was developed by ASHRAE. BACnet was designed specifically to meet the communication needs of building automation and control systems. Typical applications include: heating, ventilating, and air-conditioning control, lighting control, access control, and fire detection systems. BACnet International has reached an agreement to establish a test lab for BACnet products at SoftDEL systems www.softdel.com.
Modbus is a data transfer protocol used mainly in the building and industrial automation industry. It was one the first open protocols and consequently an overwhelming number of vendors implemented Modbus interfaces. Modbus can only carry scalar data.
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What is the Modbus communication protocol about?
The Modbus communication protocol is a simple and robust communication protocol to connect industrial electronic devices. It is easy to deploy and maintain.
What is the meaning of modbus?
Modbus is an industrial communications protocol. If you are referring to the word Modbus, I have not read it but suppose it comes from (MOD)icon (BUS).
What is profibus?
Modbus is a industrial communications protocol designed by Modicon in 1979 widely used in industry, while Profibus is a field bus standard developed by various companies (among these Siemens) in the late 80s. Modbus is the protocol that defines how messages are going to be transferred and Profibus defines the standard (set of protocols) that rule the communication system. As you can see they are not exactly the same. However, both are extensively used in the manufacturing industry these days.
ASCII protocol same of Modbus protocol?
Ascii is not a protocol - it describes a computer system's character set. Communication with a Modbus PLC requires an understanding of how to communicate and the protocol (set of rules) does describe this. Ascii is a set of values describing the Latin codepage set that can represent certain characters in data. There are no communications "rules" with Ascii, just a data representation.
Schneider electric open architecture?
Modbus.
What is the function of a Modbus splitter?
Its function is to relay data signals sent via master to its slave. It also serve as a junction where you can interconnect several Modbus devices.
How do you interface modbus to controller and to PC?
You can do it directly from a serial port of the PC to the CPU's Modbus port (if you are using a Modicon controller). The standard used would be RS-232.
How does SCADA communicate with PLC?
throughprotocol: modbus,profibus,tcp/ip.................commnucation medium : leased lines,Ethernet,Optical fiber communication,VSAT communication.
How to interface PM9c energy meters?
What do you need to interface to? I have projects with 20+ connected in serial RS485 Modbus to a PLC or 20+ connected to an Ethernet bridge to view them via a touch screen display What would you like to know?
What variable frequency inverters does AC Tech offer?
There are multiple types of frequency inverters/drivers offered by AC Tech. To name a few: The General Purpose Frequency Drive, IP20; the vector drive plus and the modbus. These three come in various forms and specs.
What is the difference between a standard analog transmitter and a smart transmitter?
This is a very interesting question as many manufacturers have their own definition on what is smart. So lets me simplify as there are a number of manufacturers that make true smart transmitters with world class manufactured performance. A smart transmitter has a number of qualities and may not be limited to any one feature set. As a standard feature set they would include; some form of digital protocol (HART, FF, Brain, ModBus, DE, Profibus, etc.), remote configuration (no more climbing on tanks or troubleshooting in hazard areas.) internal self-testing, analytics and troubleshooting, analog output and possible fault/alarm switching, characterization of sensor for high performance accuracy, long term stability and repeatability performance guarantee's and be tested individually prior to shipping. Analog transmitters that are lower cost typically take short cuts in manufacturing. Only 1 out of a certain number (10, 100, 1,000) of those manufactured will be tested and verified that they meet spec. They have a higher susceptibility to mechanical hysteresis which is a huge issue on pressure. They are extremely sensitive to any change in the environment. Low accuracy and limited promise of any repeatability. High cost of ownership based on MTBF typicals. (Most smarts today guarantee lifetime performance.) All, in all if you work in a precision world and want something that is not maintenance prone the investment pays huge returns. I installed numerous units in a ugly Pharmacy application when I first came into the process world 30 years ago. They have not needed any calibration adjustments to date and are still fully functional. Only 2-3 failures after that time with several hundred transmitters of all types. (I will expire before they do.) Now I am using them in Mission Critical data centers for efficiency improvement and gaining huge results in stability, efficiency and overall environmental sustainability.
what is a smart transmitter?
The consequences of living in a postmodern era filter down even to field instrumentation... "Smart" is a marketing term, not a technical definition. Hence, smart means whatever the speaker attempts to define it as, but you as the listener, are not obliged to accept the speaker's definition. Over the past 20 odd years, I have had people tell me smart is: 1) the ability to have the transmitter's output ranged without applying an input 2) the ability to zero/range the transmitter output by applying a process input and pressing a button 3) the ability to configure an elevation offset on a GP/DP transmitter without applying a pressure. 4) the presence of a digital indicating readout on a transmitter, as opposed to an analog indicator. 5) the compensation for temperature drift on pressure transmitters by measuring the temperature and making compensation for it. 6) the ability to change engineering units for the digital indicator. 7) the presence of any digital interface, whether it be HART, foundation fieldbus, Profibus, or even Modbus. 8) the ability to get more than one variable from a transmitter. 9) the presence of 'meaningful diagnostics'. The repeated assertion of the value of 'meaningful diagnostics'. The failure to show a 'meaningful diagnostic' or be able to explain what any specific 'meaningful diagnostic' might be meaningful. 10) The ability to configure a transmitter remotely from the control room, over the wiring to the transmitter, with a handheld gizmo. 11) That newer transmitters are, in fact, smarter than older transmitters because the handheld gizmo has 2 LCD lines in the display, instead of one. 12) The absence of screw adjustment pots 13) Not drawing to an inside straight. I believe only the last definition. You are entitled to believe whatever you heart desires. Even a former US president didn't know the definition of 'is', so who's to define "smart"?
