In telecontrol applications, devices from different manufacturers have to communicate with each other. Standardised data exchange can easily be realised via the internationally standardised telecontrol protocols IEC 60870-5-101 for serial transfer and IEC 60870-5-104 for the TCP/IP-based transfer.
Two TwinCAT libraries support IEC 60870 programming. With TwinCAT IEC 60870-5-101 and TwinCAT IEC 60870-5-104, comprehensive function block libraries are available both for serial transfer and for TCP/IP-based transfer. These libraries run on a variety of control platforms, the CX Embedded PCs and the PCs.
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| TwinCAT PLC IEC 60870-5-101 Slave | licence for using an IEC 61131-3 software library for TwinCAT PLC for communication via the telecontrol protocol according to IEC 60870-5-101 (serial transmission) |
| TwinCAT PLC IEC 60870-5-104 Slave | licence for using an IEC 61131-3 software library for TwinCAT PLC for communication via the telecontrol protocol according to IEC 60870-5-104 (TCP/IP-based transmission) |
| TwinCAT PLC IEC 60870-5-104 Slave CE | licence for using an IEC 61131-3 software library for TwinCAT PLC for communication via the telecontrol protocol according to IEC 60870-5-104 (TCP/IP-based transmission) for Windows CE platforms |