Looking for some advice on a project.
The controller is a BMEP584040. There is a RIO ring with several drops with Quantum I/O. On this ring, there are also 3 DRS switches with p/n MCSESM083F23F1.
The customer's goal is to monitor the integrity of this ring and display an alarm in the Scada if a portion of the ring would fail. This is not too difficult using the DDT variables of the Quantum I/O. The deeper problem is the DRS switches.
We have thought of simply doing Modbus TCP. But I am not very familiar with the M580 and continually get confused with Schneider's various protocol options.
Would doing a generic Modbus TCP slave using Read_var or using IO Scanning be better? I have read and researched alot but there were too many things that I couldn't find documentation for.
The DRS switch does support Modbus TCP has shown in the attached. That doesn't look to difficult, but I was not able to find clear documentation on the ADDMX block and I was running into issues adding a network to control expert.
So, I have researched several ways and none of it made sense to me, in my limited exposure to how Schneider Control Expert handles this.
What's your recommendation on how to best do this?? Thanks!!
The controller is a BMEP584040. There is a RIO ring with several drops with Quantum I/O. On this ring, there are also 3 DRS switches with p/n MCSESM083F23F1.
The customer's goal is to monitor the integrity of this ring and display an alarm in the Scada if a portion of the ring would fail. This is not too difficult using the DDT variables of the Quantum I/O. The deeper problem is the DRS switches.
We have thought of simply doing Modbus TCP. But I am not very familiar with the M580 and continually get confused with Schneider's various protocol options.
Would doing a generic Modbus TCP slave using Read_var or using IO Scanning be better? I have read and researched alot but there were too many things that I couldn't find documentation for.
The DRS switch does support Modbus TCP has shown in the attached. That doesn't look to difficult, but I was not able to find clear documentation on the ADDMX block and I was running into issues adding a network to control expert.
So, I have researched several ways and none of it made sense to me, in my limited exposure to how Schneider Control Expert handles this.
What's your recommendation on how to best do this?? Thanks!!