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Modbus: Modbus Is A Serial Communications Protocol Published by Modicon in 1979 For Use With

Modbus is a serial communications protocol published in 1979 for use with programmable logic controllers. It has since become a de facto standard in industrial environments due to being openly published, royalty-free, and easy to deploy. Modbus allows up to 240 devices to communicate on the same network and is commonly used to connect computers with remote terminal units in SCADA systems. While simple and robust, Modbus has some limitations such as supporting a small number of data types, requiring polling of devices, and not providing security for transmissions.

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Modbus: Modbus Is A Serial Communications Protocol Published by Modicon in 1979 For Use With

Modbus is a serial communications protocol published in 1979 for use with programmable logic controllers. It has since become a de facto standard in industrial environments due to being openly published, royalty-free, and easy to deploy. Modbus allows up to 240 devices to communicate on the same network and is commonly used to connect computers with remote terminal units in SCADA systems. While simple and robust, Modbus has some limitations such as supporting a small number of data types, requiring polling of devices, and not providing security for transmissions.

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MODBUS

Modbus is a serial communications protocol published by Modicon in 1979 for use with its programmable logic controllers (PLCs). Simple and robust, it has since become one of the de facto standard communications protocols in the industry, and it is now amongst the most commonly available means of connecting industrial electronic devices. The main reasons for the extensive use of Modbus in the industrial environment are:

It has been developed with industrial applications in mind It is openly published and royalty-free It is easy to deploy and maintain It moves raw bits or words without placing many restrictions on vendors

Modbus allows for communication between many (approximately 240) devices connected to the same network, for example a system that measures temperature and humidity and communicates the results to a computer. Modbus is often used to connect a supervisory computer with a remote terminal unit (RTU) in supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems. Many of the data types are named from its use in driving relays: a single-bit physical output is called a coil, and a single-bit physical input is called a discrete input or a contact.

Limitations of MODBUS
Since Modbus was designed in the late 1970s to communicate to programmable logic controllers, the number of data types is limited to those understood by PLCs at the time. Large binary objects are not supported. No standard way exists for a node to find the description of a data object, for example, to determine if a register value represents a temperature between 30 and 175 degrees. Since Modbus is a master/slave protocol, there is no way for a field device to "report by exception" (except over Ethernet TCP/IP, called open-mbus)- the master node must routinely poll each field device, and look for changes in the data. This consumes bandwidth and network time in applications where bandwidth may be expensive, such as over a low-bit-rate radio link. Modbus is restricted to addressing 247 devices on one data link, which limits the number of field devices that may be connected to a master station (once again Ethernet TCP/IP proving the exception). Modbus transmissions must be contiguous which limits the types of remote communications devices to those that can buffer data to avoid gaps in the transmission. Modbus protocol provides no security against unauthorized commands or interception of data.

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