COMMUNICATION PROTOCOLS
INDUSTRIAL COMMUNICATION PROTOCOL Either we like to be a System Engineer that understood well the intricacies of computer communication or not, it is one of the duty of anyone involved in Electrical Control, Instrumentation and Automation to be familiar with the aspect related to their field in which now i will discuss with you. Listed below are the list of communication protocol as formulated by different vendors but the most commonly used in the Industrial machine application to connect PLC, HMI, Drives, Field devices, and more are ETHERNET, PROFIBUS, DEVICENET, AS-i, PPI, MPI, POWERLINK, ANYBUS, CANBUS, PROFINET, BacNet, HART, MODBUS, SERCOS COMMUNICATION PROTOCOLS AS-i : Actuator-sensor interface, a low level 2-wire bus establishing power and communications to basic digital and analog devices BSAP : Bristol Standard Asynchronous Protocol, developed by Bristol Babcock Inc. CIP : (Common Industrial Protocol) – can be treated as appli...