Easily control and read data from PROFINET devices using IOTech’s industrial-grade PROFINET device connector
What is PROFINET?
- PROFINET is one of the leading Industrial Ethernet technologies used in manufacturing with applications ranging from production automation, process automation and drives
- PROFINET is standardized in IEC 61158 and IEC 61784 and forms the communication backbone for Industrie 4.0 in automation technology
- The PROFINET device connector uses the Siemens' protocol stack and proprietary hardware drivers to read/write data from/to IO devices on the PROFINET network. It runs as a 32-bit application and acts as a high-level controller on the user’s existing PROFINET network
- A user needs to use their engineering tool to define the updated system including the conector as the high-level controller and the data transfer areas corresponding to the devices to be read. This hardware configuration file is then passed to the IOTech device connector
IOTech's high performance PROFINET device connector acts as an IO Controller, communicating with IO devices using PROFINET Real-Time (PN-RT)
The PROFINET device connector implements the following key features:
- Receive alarms
- Log alarms
- Read IO data
- Write IO data
The device connector can be configured to communicate with IO Devices in the following ways:
- Connected to an existing IO controller on the network, which is configured as an I-device. The IO controller transfers data from its IO devices to the device connector which transfers data to the IO controller to pass to its IO devices
- Directly connected to the IO devices
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