Modbus Ethernet

Product Overview

The Modbus Ethernet device driver works in conjunction with KEPServerEX to provide data exchange between OPC clients and Modbus Ethernet protocol compliant PLCs. KEPServerEX automatically optimizes your data acquisition based on client demand. Data integrity is ensured with our extensive error handling.

Kepware's implementation of the Modbus Ethernet driver supports master and slave operations simultaneously. The slave mode allows the server to receive data by exception from other Modbus Ethernet devices.

The Modbus Ethernet 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 directly import the tags used in your PLC application directly into KEPServerEX. This time-saving step instantly makes all of the relevant PLC data available to your OPC client applications.

Features

• Automatic Tag Generation
• Supports Multiple PLCs via IP addressing
• Supports Modicon Ethernet to Modbus Plus bridging
• Supports Multiple or Single socket usage for better gateway resource management
• Supports Tag import from Concept and ProWORX programming packages
• Supports Advanced Statistics Tags, including _CommFailures and _ErrorResponses
• Supports Memory Accesses to 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
• 0xxxx - Output Coils, 1xxxx - Input Coils, 3xxxx - Internal Registers, 4xxxx - Holding Registers
• All data types and arrays are supported

A driver is a software component that enables KEPServerEX to meet the communication requirements of a specific device, system, or other data source. The driver handles all proprietary communications between the data source and KEPServerEX; KEPServerEX handles all OPC or proprietary client communications between the driver and the client application(s).

Drivers may be licensed individually or in suites. Additional drivers can be licensed on demand as connectivity needs evolve. All OPC client interfaces can connect to KEPServerEX without additional charge.