#Inductive automation ignition data highway driver#
#Inductive automation ignition data highway full#
#Inductive automation ignition data highway professional#

#Inductive automation ignition data highway full#

But youвЂ™re not going to have all of the pre-made software components for controlling Variable Air Valves, Supply and Exhaust Fan PID loops, Compressors, Condensers, etcвЂ¦ So you will be building all of that PLC logic yourself (which you may prefer being in full control of, given your background). Now that we have recently added the BACnet driver, Ignition can be a BMS. Okay so, as you know, Ignition is a platform that can tie into any source of data and show them up as tags. Lets take an exampleвЂ¦ say you had a complete BMS, and then needed to pull data from PLCs elsewhere in your plant that donвЂ™t talk BACnetвЂ¦ Lets say every time Line 1 is cutting hardwood, you need the BMS to reduce airflow in that areaвЂ¦ You would have to figure out some other way to do it, external to the BMS software (but hey, thatвЂ™s the job of Integrators, is it not?). You canвЂ™t build a custom integration of your own without leaning on the original developers of the BMS software. BMS systems usually have a dedicated controller, with вЂњremote I/OвЂќ devices, which removes the need for a separate PLC (again, this is my limited knowledge). Outside of re-arranging their pre-built components, you have no real room for custom programming. As far as the control logic, they usually have a bunch of premade components (purpose built for Heating and Air, Lighting, etc.) you can lay out and just connect the dots.

What I have observed is that dedicated BMS systems require a great deal of training in the way they do thingsвЂ¦ but once youвЂ™re trained, its fairly easy to use, and everything you should need is within their вЂњwalled gardenвЂќ. Whether to use BMS software or Ignition, or both, depends on your preferences and skill set. This really is a question of вЂњWhat tool do you want to use?вЂќ. But I can relay my observation while managing our own system at headquarters in Folsom.

#Inductive automation ignition data highway professional#

Increasing this number can sometimes help with your request throughput, however increasing this too much can overwhelm the device and hurt your communications with the device.Hi IвЂ™m not a professional BMS engineer, so I canвЂ™t answer all of your questions. The number of requests that Ignition will try to send to the device at the same time. Currently routing through the ControlLogix Ethernet Communication Interface Module (1756-ENET) to the ControlLogix Data Highway Plus-Remote I/O Communication Interface Module (1756-DHRIO) and on to a PLC-5 processor of the DH+ network is supported. The Connection Path value is used to define the route of the PLC-5 processor to connect to.

The Slot Number value is the zero based ControlLogix chassis slot number of the ControlLogix processor to connect to.

#Inductive automation ignition data highway driver#

If left blank, then the driver will simply pick an available address.ДЄfter sending a request to the ControlLogix processor, the Communication Timeout setting is the amount of time in msec to wait for a response before treating it as a failure.

The local address to connect from when establishing a TCP connection. The following feature is new in Ignition version 8.1.8Д¬lick here to check out the other new features