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In this modern world, the need for optimizing the automation equipment is among the critical factors to consider. Normally the advancement of the drive control lies in the efficiency and operation range. But, nowadays the factor called “communication protocol” also comes into account for advanced control. There are many wired and wireless buses available in the market for various specific applications. But the majority of them are based onhigh speed Ethernet bus. This set up can be made economical by using the open source tools.This project deals with the deployment of the industrial communication protocol using open-source tools with the standards being maintained. The necessary libraries are designed and developed for the same as a proof of concept.In the present work, the Modbus protocol is considered for the open source evaluation.

Keywords

IEDs (Intelligent Electronic Device), Modbus, SCADA (Supervisory Control & Data Acquisition

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