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MODBUS

ORGANIZATION, INC.

Newsletter

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Meet new

members...

Modbus Conformance Certified...

The true benefit of any open

standard is the assurance it pro-

vides to users that the products

they buy will interoperate seam-

lessly. Any specification, no mat-

ter how carefully written, is sub-

ject to interpretation and occa-

sional misunderstanding. That's

where conformance testing be-

comes valuable.

The Modbus Organization re-

cently certified the

Magnetrol

Eclipse Model 706,

a smart

level transmitter operating on

the principle of Guided Wave

Radar. The Model 706 can be

used in many level measurement

and control applications, includ-

ing those containing visible va-

pors, or media with varying di-

electric constant or specific grav-

ity.

The Modbus Organization also

recently certified

HMS Indus-

trial Networks’ Com-

pactCom M40

Ethernet Mod-

bus-TCP (PN AB6603-B ), a

complete communication module

that enables products to commu-

nicate on

a Modbus

TCP

network.

The

CompactCom M40

Com-

pactCom

family of products offers multi-

network connectivity with a

single development project, limit-

ing users’ development efforts to

a minimum.

Request more information

about

the organization’s Conformance

Test Program.

iRidium mobile

makes it easy

to monitor

industrial proc-

esses...

Modbus Q&A

Modbus

Resources

The

Modbus Conformance

Testing Program

provides

independent verification that a

It can be used to

broad array of qualifications has

detect overall

been met in compliance with

level or interface

Modbus specifications. It pro-

level, and in-

vides end users with the comfort

cludes a 30-point

that their design and configura-

custom strapping

tion process will proceed

table for volu-

smoothly and assures suppliers

metric and flow

that their products were devel-

applications.

oped in accordance with key

Eclipse Model 706

Modbus criteria.

New in 2015

We launch the year’s first news-

letter with a new design. The

newsletter has been dormant for

a while as we determined the best

way to present updates in the

Modbus world: yours and ours.

Count on the Modbus.org web

page to bring you the latest news

and updates on product releases,

updates and resources every day.

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New Members...

Pegasus Automation Inter-

national LLC (PAI)

special-

izes in designing and manufac-

turing building control systems.

PAI has a full range of control

products, including software,

controllers, sensors, and actua-

tors, which are sold worldwide

and designed to offer complete

solutions to the building con-

trols industry.

Years of experience, innovative

ideas, quality production facili-

ties and concrete services

make PAI a leader in the build-

ing control industry, and a

member of both BACnet and

the Modbus Organization.

PAI has over 20 international

distributors and partners

throughout America, Europe,

Australia, the Middle East and

Asia.

Among its offerings are the

Pegasus GCU, a complete

network gateway with built-in

I/O, alarm, time scheduling,

and trending; Pegasus EC, a

programmable controller, able

to work standalone or connect

with a larger network; and the

Pegasus Smart Sensor, a net-

worked sensor including tem-

perature, humidity, CO, CO2,

pressure, and more.

The Kübler Group

is a spe-

cialist in the fields of position

and motion sensors, counting

and process technology and

transmission technology.

product releases are

the

Sendix F58 Modbus

encoder family and

the Codix 560 - now

available with RS232/RS485

interface supports for Modbus

RTU and the CR/LF protocol.

Joining the Modbus

Organization is easy

and affordable.

Download the

membership application

to learn more.

Among Kübler’s 2014/2015

Opto 22

manufactures con-

trollers, I/O, solid-state relays,

and software products that link

electrical, mechanical, and

electronic devices to networks

and computers.

The company's latest product,

groov,

makes it easy to build

mobile operator interfaces to

virtually any system, with no

programming.

Opto 22 recently released

groov 2.3, a major update,

adding Modbus TCP communi-

cation to the company's groov

web-based mobile interface

software.

As a Modbus TCP master,

groov communicates directly

with Modbus TCP slave

devices over standard, non-

proprietary Ethernet networks.

Opto 22 was founded in 1974

by engineers who designed a

better solid-state relay and

chose to build it in a non-

corporate, flat organization.

Over 40 years later, Opto 22

is still privately held, and run

by engineers.

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Monitoring Industrial Processes with Mobile Devices

CEOs and chief engineers need to

keep a hand on the pulse of their

enterprises — to know at any mo-

ment how their industrial proc-

esses are going. And it’s crucially

important to be instantly informed,

if anything goes wrong.

How best to accomplish this?

iRidium mobile, software designed

to control automation systems

from tablets and smart phones (for

iOS, Android, OS X, Windows

7/8), offers a flexible solution to

this problem.

Tablets and smart phones with

iRidium’s App, i2Next:, can:

can be modified to suit the needs

of a particular project, or users can

create new items in the iRidium

GUI Editor.

In 2013 Endress+Hauser used iRid-

ium in a project as mobile SCADA

for a tank gauging system in reser-

voir parks. Endress+Hauser is a

world leader in measurement

equipment, services and solutions

for industrial process engineering.

The company specializes in opti-

mizing technological processes for

economic efficiency, safety and

environmental impact.

Data were received from

TankVision controllers

using Modbus TCP and

displayed on the screen

of a tablet in iRidium's

Metro GUI. Interface.

Endress+Hauser used

iRidium to:

1. Monitor the state of

reservoirs (oil level,

oil mass, oil temperature and

oil density),

2. Notify reservoir park operators

about emergencies, and

3. Demonstrate capabilities of the

tank gauging system to potential

customers when visit-

ing their offices by

means of built-in

video broadcast.

Evgeniy Korzhakov, project depart-

ment head at Endress+Hauser Ltd.,

explained their choice of software,

“Using iRidium turned out to be an

interesting solution for customers,

as well as employees of our com-

pany. On the whole iRidium makes

it possible to receive data from and

control (if this function is available)

any field gadgets, such as pressure

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display the current state of

industrial processes;

control Modbus systems via a

local net or the Internet;

notify about emergencies in

production.

iPad tablet

displays

data from

E+H’s

TankVision

controller

using iRid-

ium mobile

software.

sensors, temperature sensors,

valves, pumps, etc.”

iRidium mobile can be used in in-

dustrial, commercial and home

automation projects. Learn more

about

iRidium for Modbus.

Configuration in iRidium's GUI

editor is well adapted for Modbus

integrators. Projects require mini-

mal manual setup, and iRidium

offers a variety of ready interfaces,

with many graphical items for a

wide range of purposes, e.g., but-

tons, sliders, triggers. Each of these

Q&A from the Modbus Discussion Forum

How to Format Correct

Modbus Address...

Hosein asked how to enter the

address in HEX for a Delta PID

temperature controller (model

number: DT48): Temperature con-

troller from Delta company in-

cluded the Modbus address as fol-

lows: 1000H for the process value.

David_2 replied:

In Modscan32, you can select

whether the register/addresses

display in decimal or hexadecimal

under Setup > Display Options >

Hex addresses.

I always use decimal addressing, but

I have a vague recollection that hex

addressing starts at 0001h in Mod-

scan, so you might have to add one

to the hex value shown in the Delta

the correct register in the Delta.

For instance, Delta's 1000h might

be 1001h in Modscan, not 1000h

Use the data display (Setup > Dis-

play options > show data) unless

you like the torrent of hexadecimal

traffic flooding the screen.

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Modbus Discussion Forum, cont’d

The Delta's serial comm settings

have to match the comm settings in

Modscan. I think Modscan defaults

to RTU, but ASCII can be selected

(connection > connect > ad-

vanced?)

W.L. Mostia added:

1000Hex = 4096 decimal

See the following link:

http://

www.binaryhexconverter.com/hex-

to-decimal-converter for a con-

verter of Hex to Decimal or vice

versa.

You can set the data format in

Modscan32. Please see the Mod-

scan32 manual.

Also you you may have to take into

account that there may be an ad-

dress offset of 1 in some implemen-

tations of Modbus, e.g. Master sent

address of 4096 may be register

4097 in the slave?

Any information is provided on

Caveat Emptor basis.

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