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BACnet

Is an open communications protocol for building automation and control networks. The standards are controlled and/or referenced by ASHRAE, BACnet International, ANSI, and ISO.

BACnet is rapidly becoming the most popular protocol for building automation systems. Primary BACnet applications are systems and equipment used for heating, ventilating, and air-conditioning control, energy management lighting control, access control, and fire detection.

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BACnet/IP

BACnet IP utilizes a standard UDP/IP stack to send and get messages. Generally, the same packet that would be found on a MS/TP connection is encapsulated in a UDP/IP packet and called BACnet IP. Devices use IP locations and Ethernet MAC addresses like other UDP/IP system device.

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BACnet/IP BBMD

The BBMD advances a BACnet broadcast message started by a BACnet/IP device on its subnet to others subnets with BACnet/IP devices. Upon landing in a destination subnet, the message is then show on that subnet. The device is streamlined for high data transfer capacity use because of its 32-bit inserted Linux-based OS and our BACstac/32 protocol stack

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BACnet MS/TP

BACnet MS/TP is a data link protocol unique to BACnet that is commonly used as a field bus. The acronym MS/TP stands for Master-Slave/Token-Passing. The protocol uses EIA-485 as the physical layer. The protocol is defined using three state machines: Master Node Finite State Machine, Slave Node Finite State Machine, and Receive Frame Finite State Machine. A device is either a Master Node or a Slave Node.

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CC-Link IE SLMP

SLMP, also known as Seamless Message Protocol, is a component of the CC-Link IE Field network that gives clients vertically coordinate field devices with controllers to data systems. It simply intefaces field systems to information systems having standard Ethernet-compatible devices such as barcode readers and RFID scanners which can be connected using SLMP over Ethernet TCP/IP.

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Data Highway Plus DH+

Data Highway Plus is a networking system made by the Allen-Bradley Company (now called Rockwell Automation). It is a networking protocol suite for manufacturing automation. It is normal in networking innovation to express protocols in layers of capacities. The Data Highway Plus suite contains three layers. These are the physical layer, the data join layer and the application layer.

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DeviceNet

It is an application layer convention on top of the CAN (Controller Area Network) innovation, created by Bosch. DeviceNet adjusts the innovation from the Common Industrial Protocol (CIP). what’s more, exploits CAN, making it ease and powerful contrasted with the customary RS-485 based conventions.

Keeping in mind the end goal to advance the utilization of DeviceNet around the world, Rockwell Automation has received the “open” idea and chose to share the innovation to outsider merchants. Subsequently, it is presently overseen by ODVA, a free association situated in North America.

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Ethernet/IP

EtherNet/IP is an industrial Ethernet network that includes a standard Ethernet technology with the Common Industrial Protocol or “CIP.”
Consists of the Ethernet standards which include the Internet Protocol suite and IEEE 802 project. This defines the features and functions for its transport, network, data link and physical layers. CIP uses its object-oriented design to provide EtherNet/IP with the services and device profiles needed for real-time control applications and to promote consistent implementation of automation functions across a diverse ecosystem of products.

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EtherCAT

Ethernet for Control Automation Technology is an Ethernet-based fieldbus system, created by Beckhoff Automation. The protocol is based in IEC 61158 and is suitable for both hard and soft real time requirements in automation technology.
The objective of EtherCAT was to apply Ethernet for automation applications requiring short data overhaul times and diminished equipment costs.

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Modbus TCP/IP

Modbus-TCP is simply the Modbus RTU protocol with a TCP interface that runs on Ethernet.

The Modbus messaging structure is the application protocol that defines the rules for organizing and interpreting the data independent of the data transmission medium.

TCP/IP refers to the Transmission Control Protocol and Internet Protocol, which provides the transmission medium for Modbus TCP/IP messaging.

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Modbus RTU

Modbus RTU is an open, serial (RS-232 or RS-485) protocol derived from the Master/Slave architecture. It is a very well accepted protocol because of its usability and quality. Modbus RTU is used for Building Management Systems (BMS) and Industrial Automation Systems (IAS). This wide acknowledgment is expected in big part to MODBUS RTU’s convenience.

MODBUS RTU messages are a basic 16-bit CRC (Cyclic-Redundant Checksum). The effortlessness of these messages is to guarantee reliability. Because of this simplicity, the essential 16-bit MODBUS RTU register structure can be utilized to pack in floating point, tables, ASCII content, lines, and other random data.

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Profibus

(Process Field Bus) is a standard for fieldbus communication in automation technology and was first promoted in 1989 by BMBF (German department of education and research) and then used bySiemens. It should not be confused with the PROFINET standard for Industrial Ethernet. PROFIBUS is openly published as part of IEC 61158.

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Profinet

PROFINET has become the leading Industrial Ethernet Standard in the market. This globally established and future-oriented technology is supported by many product vendors, thus ensuring long-term availability and investment protection.

A PROFINET Component Based Automation (CBA) system consists of various automation components. One component covers all mechanical, electrical and IT variables. The component can be generated using the standard programming tools. A component is described using a PROFINET component description (PCD) file in XML. A planning tool loads these descriptions and enables the logical interconnections between the individual components to be generated for implementing a plant.

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