DCU - data logger and protocol converter

Traditionally, PLCs were used in industrial applications to interface instruments, log data and control solenoid valves. Various facilities have their own PLC programming standards that can drive up the costs and programming time. What if you could standardize the controller you use in your analytical package? Limesoft DCU can interface, acquire and store data from a variety of instruments, devices, sensors, analyzers using a variety of Ethernet, Serial, 4-20 mA, or Digital I/O protocols such as Modbus and OPC. It features a powerful RegEx Parser Engine that can be used to read data from devices that implement string-based communication protocols. As a centralized Data Hub or Gateway, DCU can then respond as a Modbus Serial or Ethernet Slave and provide data to one or multiple Modbus Masters.All the data can then be packaged together and passed in a convenient format such as Modbus TCP/IP map. It can function as an OPC Tunneler to avoid complex DCOM layer configuration. The HMI can display interactive process and mimic diagrams, histograms, charts, and data tables, push buttons to trigger various control tasks or set analog values.