Modbus protocol for industries application

[ejazbeyond]

How different manufacturer machine drive can communicate on A modbus. A read a article on electronics for about a device called gill sense can it claims to be universal that is it can communicate to any device in industry to gather info over cloud. https://electronicsforu.com/india-corner/innovations-innovators/gill-sense-pocket-sized-smart-device

 

[ejazbeyond]

I am unable to understand how it works please help me on this.

 

[Ian Rogers]

Modbus is an industry standard... If a device has a PLC then it will probably have a Modbus interface.. You can query devices via Modbus and then read / write to specific registers... This way you can control the device even if you only have a basic knowledge of the system....

Canbus is slowly taking over as it has better distance coverage and device properties...

I have tried Modbus and Canbus…. I think Modbus is out of date and too constrictive..

 

[ejazbeyond]

Modbus is an industry standard... If a device has a PLC then it will probably have a Modbus interface.. You can query devices via Modbus and then read / write to specific registers... This way you can control the device even if you only have a basic knowledge of the system....

Canbus is slowly taking over as it has better distance coverage and device properties...

I have tried Modbus and Canbus…. I think Modbus is out of date and too constrictive..

What do you think how Gill Sense work, what data we will get on cloud?

 

[Ian Rogers]

This device is a graphical "upfront" display... All the utilities it is reading will have to have "Smart" sensors attached to them.. Ie.. one sensor to monitor each utility.. Then they connect to the device then this information is stored on a cloud.. You will be able to access this data via computer and mobile phone etc.. The data will be as described in the article...

 

[ejazbeyond]

if two machines have different company drives then in that case how it works?

 

[Ian Rogers]

if two machines have different company drives then in that case how it works?

Remember the article describes "compatible devices" so I don't expect any device to work... There will be limitations...

 

[dr pepper]

Modbus is a standard comms protocol, it can operate on serial or network connections.
However the protocol uses registers and 'coils', the way data is stored depends on how the programmer defined the system.
Not sure how this gizmo you mention is able to deal with this, unless you have to spend a lot of time setting it up.

 

[JimB]

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