Planet IMG-2100T Industrial Modbus Gateway

Economical Solution for Industrial Modbus TCP/RTU/ASCII Network Integration:
Planet has added the Industrial Modbus TCP/IP Protocol to its easily-integrated industrial management level products that come with SCADA/HMI system and other data acquisition systems on factory floors. Moreover, the industrial IT SNMP network is upgraded to the Industrial automation Modbus TCP/IP network. Planet industrial management level products with the Modbus TCP/IP Protocol offer flexible network connectivity solutions for the industrial automation environment.

To complete the industrial automation environment application solution, Planet has announced a first industrial level 1-port RS232/422/485 Modbus Gateway, IMG-2100T, a bridge that converts between Modbus TCP/IP Protocol and Modbus RTU/ASCII Protocol. It features a wide operating temperature range from -40 to 75 degrees C and a compact but rugged IP30 metal housing. 

The Conversion Bridge that Makes Communications Convenient:
The IMG-2100T Series can be a conversion bridge between the equipment with the Modbus RTU/ASCII Protocol and the administrator workstations that run the Modbus TCP/IP Protocol. The RS232/422/485 serial interface of the IMG-2100T Series provides the Modbus RTU/ASCII operation mode and various baud rate options to meet the demand of integration between the Modbus TCP/IP Protocol, Modbus RTU Master/Slave Protocol and Modbus ASCII Master/Slave Protocol.

The advantage of having the IMG-210XT is to assist users to build an industrial environment between the Modbus TCP/IP Protocol and the Modbus RTU/ ASCII Protocol easily, thus offering an application solution to the industrial control equipment without Ethernet ports and the industrial control equipment can only control through an industrial PC workstation or industrial control panel.

In addition, the effective integration solution of Modbus Ethernet devices, Modbus serial equipment or multi Modbus master / slave in an industrial hybrid network brings the following:

• Master mode supports up to 32 TCP slave connection requests 
• Slave mode supports up to 32 TCP master connections

Remote Management:
The IMG-2100T makes the connected industrial Modbus RTU/ASCII equipment become IP-based facilities and is able to connect to the Modbus TCP/IP network via its RS232/422/485 serial interface and 10/100BASE-TX RJ45 or 100BASE-FX Ethernet port. It provides a remote web management and telnet Interface for efficient remote network management. The IMG-2100T also provides Planet Modbus Gateway utility tool and supports Planet Smart Discovery utility to help network administrator to easily get the current IP subnet address information or change the IP subnet address setting of the IMG-2100T.