What are the integration options for the Conduit with PLC’s and industrial networks?
For PLC field bus communications, the use case is to provide sensor data to PLC on an existing field bus. There’s a few different protocol possibilities, and sometimes the physical media isn’t ethernet. For example:
Field Bus Networks
- Modbus/TCP: There’s a node-red node for this. Has anyone had any experience?
- Ethernet/IP: Can we make the conduit appear as a generic ethernet module with read/write buffers for an Allen-Bradley PLC?
- Profibus: On RS-485, is it possible to use the serial mCard for
this?
On the higher level of the industrial network architecture, you might have a SCADA system that wants to get data from the conduit on the ethernet network. So the drivers on the SCADA dictate how the conduit needs to talk to it. There’s a OPC-UA node for node-red. What other options have been tried for the conduit?
I’m not limited to the AEP version, mLinux is OK too.
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This topic was modified 13 hours, 9 minutes ago by
Eric Tsai.
