Automation1

Automation1 Industrial Ethernet support is part of the user-friendly Automation1 motion control platform,

which includes the following:

Development Software

Controls

Motor Drives

Fiber-Optic HyperWire® Communication Bus

Modbus TCP/IP

Modbus TCP/IP is an extension of the Modbus family of vendor-neutral communication protocols

used for supervision and control of automation equipment.

Specifically, it provides a network and transport layer in an Internet environment over

the TCP/IP protocols for the Modbus application layer.

The most common use of the protocol is for communication with Ethernet-based PLCs,

I/O modules and other simple field buses or I/O networks.

The Modbus TCP/IP protocol is an automation standard.

EtherCAT

EtherCAT stands for Ethernet for Control Automation Technology.

It is a real-time communication protocol over standard Ethernet hardware / networks.

In EtherCAT, the network topology has one central controller that manages the communication of up to N (65.535) other devices.

EtherCAT devices transfer data “on the fly,” enabling high speed, high throughput communication over the Ethernet physical layer.