AEROTECH Automation1 Industrial Ethernet Support
Automation1 Industrial Ethernet Support
Industrial Ethernet (IE) is enhanced with determinism and real-time control for use within an industrial setting.
All Automation1 PC-based and drive-based controllers (equipped with IE ports) support Modbus TCP/IP and EtherNet/IPTM IE protocols. Additionally, Automation1 drive-based controllers (equipped with IE ports) support EtherCAT IE protocols.
Supporting IE protocols makes Automation1 controllers highly expandable. Data items on the IE networks are mapped to registers in the Automation1 controller, making the networked devices directly accessible to the Automation1 controller and vice versa.
Key Features
EtherCAT SubDevice support for Automation1 drive-based controllers
EtherNet/IP Adapter support for all Automation1 control hardware
MODBUS support for all Automation1 control hardware
Enables expansion of your control architecture
Allows for integrating Automation1 into larger automation systems
Enables expansion of I/O on a machine controlled by Automation1
Automation1
Automation1 Industrial Ethernet support is part of the user-friendly Automation1 motion control platform, which includes the following:
Development Software
Controls
Motor Drives
Fiber-Optic HyperWire® Communication Bus
Modbus TCP/IP
Modbus TCP/IP is an extension of the Modbus family of vendor-neutral communication protocols used for supervision and control of automation equipment. Specifically, it provides a network and transport layer in an Internet environment over the TCP/IP protocols for the Modbus application layer. The most common use of the protocol is for communication with Ethernet-based PLCs, I/O modules and other simple field buses or I/O networks. The Modbus TCP/IP protocol is an automation standard.
EtherCAT
EtherCAT stands for Ethernet for Control Automation Technology. It is a real-time communication protocol over standard Ethernet hardware / networks. In EtherCAT, the network topology has one central controller that manages the communication of up to N (65.535) other devices. EtherCAT devices transfer data “on the fly,” enabling high speed, high throughput communication over the Ethernet physical layer.
EtherNET/IP
EtherNet/IP is an application-layer protocol that uses standard Ethernet (TCP/UDP) communication to implement the Common Industrial Protocol (CIP). CIP is frequently employed for reliable communication with various automation components, including Ethernet-based PLCs, I/O modules and field devices. Communication is facilitated through two primary methods: implicit messaging, which uses UDP for time-critical, scheduled data exchange at a fixed Requested Packet Interval (RPI), and explicit messaging, which uses TCP for setting or retrieving object data for standard objects like Identity and Message Router.