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2150EX Area Velocity Flow Module
Section 4 Modbus Protocol
SCADA systems can be relatively simple, such as one that mon-
itors the environmental conditions of a small office building, or
very complex, such as a system that monitors all the activity in a
nuclear power plant or a municipal water system.
4.5 Common Acronyms
ASCII – American Standard Code for Information Interchange
DCS – Distributed Control Systems
MTU – Master Terminal Unit
OPC – Object Linking and Embedding (OLE) for Process Control
PLC – Programmable Logic Controller
RTU – Remote Terminal Unit
SCADA – Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition
TCP/IP – Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol
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