Product Description - Planet IMG-110T User Manual

1.3 Product Description

Economic Solution for Industrial Modbus TCP/RTU/ASCII Network Integration
PLANET has added the Industrial Modbus TCP/IP Protocol to industrial management level products to provide its
easily-integrated industrial management level products with SCADA/HMI system and other data acquisition systems in factory
floors. Moreover, the industrial IT SNMP network is upgraded to the industrial automation Modbus TCP/IP network. PLANET
industrial management level products with the Modbus TCP/IP Protocol offer flexible network connectivity solution for
industrial automation environment. To complete the industrial automation environment application solution, PLANET has
announced a first industrial level 1-port RS422/485 Modbus Gateway -- IMG-110T, a bridge that converts between Modbus
TCP/IP Protocol and Modbus RTU/ASCII Protocol. It features a wide operating temperature range from -40 to 75 degrees C
and a compact but rugged IP40 metal housing.
Modbus TCP/IP for Modbus RTU/ASCII Network Environment Deployment
The Industrial Modbus Gateway can be a conversion bridge between the industrial equipment with the Modbus RTU/ASCII
Protocol and the administrator workstations that run the Modbus TCP/IP Protocol. The RS422/485 serial interface of the
Industrial Modbus Gateway provides the Modbus RTU/ASCII operation mode and various baud rate options to meet the
demand of integration between the Modbus TCP/IP Protocol, Modbus RTU Master/Slave Protocol and Modbus ASCII
Master/Slave Protocol.
The advantage of having the Industrial Modbus Gateway is to assist users to build an industrial environment between the
Modbus TCP/IP Protocol and the Modbus RTU/ASCII Protocol easily, thus offering an application solution to the industrial
control equipment without Ethernet ports and the industrial control equipment can only control through an industrial PC
workstation or industrial control panel.
In addition, the effective integration solution of Modbus Ethernet devices, Modbus serial equipment or multi Modbus master /
slave in an industrial hybrid network brings the following:
■ Master mode supports up to 32 slave TCP connection requests
■ Slave mode supports up to 16 TCP master connections
Remote Management
The Industrial Modbus Gateway makes the connected industrial Modbus RTU/ASCII equipment become IP-based facilities
and is able to connect to the Modbus TCP/IP network via its R422/485 serial interface and 10/100BASE-TX RJ45 Ethernet
port. It provides a remote web management and telnet Interface for efficient remote network management. The Industrial
Modbus Gateway also provides PLANET Modbus Gateway utility tool and supports PLANET Smart Discovery utility to help
network administrator to easily get the current IP subnet address information or change the IP subnet address setting of the
Industrial Modbus Gateway.
Modbus Serial Port State Monitoring
The Industrial Modbus Gateway shows the details of the total bytes transmitted and received on the RS422/485 serial
interface, and the detailed total number of frames transmitted and received on the remote web/telnet management interface.
This function allows network administrator to check the status and statistics of the Industrial Modbus Gateway via the single
RS422/485 serial interface.
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