Hi All,
I am involved in a project where around 300 I/O points (analog and discrete inputs and outputs) are connected to a local panel and we need to repeat these signals across to a remote panel (without any logic or process control) that is located approximately 5000 feet away (by way of the cable).
I could create a PLC system that has PLC w/ I/O in the local panel and a remote I/O setup in the remote panel and connect them via a fiber ethernet network. Then in the PLC, I would map the local I/O points to the remote I/O points. This seems like overkill because we aren't doing anything with the data other than just mapping from a remote I/O point to a local I/O point.
We have looked into using the Acromag 900EN series and EtherStax series and it looks to be a viable option using their i2o protocol (which sounds like modbus with fancy configuration).
Any other thoughts on good methods of doing this? Are there any other remote I/O systems that support "peer-to-peer" I/O mapping?
I am involved in a project where around 300 I/O points (analog and discrete inputs and outputs) are connected to a local panel and we need to repeat these signals across to a remote panel (without any logic or process control) that is located approximately 5000 feet away (by way of the cable).
I could create a PLC system that has PLC w/ I/O in the local panel and a remote I/O setup in the remote panel and connect them via a fiber ethernet network. Then in the PLC, I would map the local I/O points to the remote I/O points. This seems like overkill because we aren't doing anything with the data other than just mapping from a remote I/O point to a local I/O point.
We have looked into using the Acromag 900EN series and EtherStax series and it looks to be a viable option using their i2o protocol (which sounds like modbus with fancy configuration).
Any other thoughts on good methods of doing this? Are there any other remote I/O systems that support "peer-to-peer" I/O mapping?