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.