S500 remote I/O

The availability of different fieldbus communi

cation interfaces makes it easy to use S500 I/O

modules as remote I/O for nearly any PLC and

PC. The S500 remote I/O station consists of a

communication interface and I/O modules. The

smallest configuration can be just the communi

cation interface with the onboard I/O channels.

Communication interfaces are available for the

following fieldbuses:

• PROFIBUS

• PROFINET/PROFIsafe

• EtherCAT

• Modbus TCP

• CANopen

• ABB CS31 System Bus

Easy engineering

The electronic configuration files that are

provided by ABB for different fieldbus systems

make it easy to configure the S500 remote I/O

station in your engineering tool. The files such as

GSD and GSDML are available for download at

www.abb.com/plc. For Modbus TCP remote I/O

stations a dedicated configurator is included in

Automation Builder and for larger applications a

Bulk Data Manager tool can be used.