The Ewon Edge & Cloud solution allows users to read data from their PLC, meters, controllers,... and forward them to Aws IoT or Azure IoT Hub cloud. The communication drivers supported today are Siemens (S7), Allen Bradley (Ethernet IP) and Modbus TCP.
APPLICABLE PRODUCTS
Ewon Edge
Ewon Cloud
PRE-REQUISITES
Your Ewon Edge must be registered to Ewon cloud : more details here
IN THIS ARTICLE
PLC Communication Settings
- Open the Ewon devices properties and click "Devices"
- Click the "..." icon and select "Add a new Device to your Gateway"
- Enter a Device Name and Description, then choose Modbus as the Protocol.
- Type the PLC IP address, the TCP Port and the PLC Modbus Slave ID.
- Define the Byte Order. [AB][CD] for High Word first and [CD][AB] for low word first.
- Define the polling interval to read the data
Tag Configuration
- Click the Tab "Tag configuration"
- Type a Tag name and Description
- Select the Register type :
- Type the Modbus Address of your Tag. Addresses are between 1 and 65535.
- Select the Data type :
- Repeat this for every tag you want to define.
- By using the icons
you can also export and import your Tags via a XLS file.
Once the device and the tag configuration are properly setup, click the icon to push the configuration to your Ewon Edge gateway or
if you want to apply the new configuration locally via USB.
The next step, adding a Destination to send your Tag values, will be covered in separate articles.