Modbus Serial

Product Overview

The Modbus Serial device driver provides data exchange between OPC clients and Modbus Serial protocol compliant PLCs and other devices. Kepware automatically optimizes your data acquisition based on client demand. Data integrity is ensured with our extensive error handling.

Special handling has been added to support the native memory formats of the OMNI Flow Computer including string support. Additional configuration parameters allow this driver to tailored to a wide range of Modbus Serial compatible devices, including JBUS.

The Modbus Serial driver now offers direct integration with Modicon Concept and ProWORX programming packages. If you are using either of these packages, you will be able to import the tags used in your PLC application directly into Kepware. This time-saving step instantly makes all of the relevant PLC data available to your OPC client applications.

• Ethernet Encapsulation
• Supports the TSXCUSBMBP USB adapter for the Modbus Plus Network
• Modbus RTU Multi-drop Supported
• Automatic Tag Generation
• Supports Broadcast Messages using device ID 0
• Full Address Range Support (0 - 65535)
• Hex Addressing Support (0-FFFF)
• User Definable Read Block Sizes
• Adjustable Address Base (0 or 1)
• Word Order Swapping for Floating Point and Longs
• Byte Order Swapping on all 16 bit and 32 bit values
• Adjustable RTS Flow timing for Radio Modems
• Supports all memory types and data types
• Support accessing Holding register memory as string data with HiLo/LoHi byte order
• RTU Functions used: 01, 02, 03,04, 05, 06, 16
• Supports tag import from Concept and ProWORX programming packages
• Modem Support
  • Automatic Dial Configuration
  • Multiple Phone Number Management
• Communication Serialization

• Modbus RTU Protocol

• Daniel S500 Flow Computer
• Dynamic Fluid Meter
• Elliot Flow Computer
• Magnetek GPD 515 Drive
• Modbus Compatible Devices
• Omni Flow Computer (Enron Modbus)
• TSXCUSBMBP USB Adapter

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• Japanese
• Simplified Chinese

• Modbus Serial Manual 

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