Fieldbus Coupler For Ethernet Seeks Industrial Applications

Catering to customer interest in Ethernet for industrial applications, the Fieldbus Coupler for Ethernet is designed to work with the company's Wago I/O System. Claiming to avoid the pitfalls of proprietary Ethernet data transmissions, the company has chosen to use the Modbus on the Ethernet protocol; http can also be used to access the node and boot-p can be used to configure the node. Modules within the I/O system feature a wide variety of analog, digital and specialty inputs and outputs.