Generic Ethernet/IP Driver

General Discussion
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Is there a Generic Ethernet/IP driver. I have a gateway module from Atlas "Quincy" for monitoring all of my compress air equipment. The Gateway has Ethernet/IP built in and Im able to connect with the Allen bradly driver but it does not import the addresses and there seems to be no way to import and EDS or CSV file for the mapping.

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Not one provided by IA, but @pturmel has an ENIP driver that will probably work.

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If you email the EDS file and the user manual to my sales or support addresses, I'm happy review the possibilities. Or link them here.

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Thanks, $1000 seems like a bit much for this project. The gateway supports Modbus so I will be going that route.

Thank you,

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Why not connect your compressors to a PLC first over ethernet, parse the data you need, and then communicate with Ignition though your PLCs drivers?

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Cost again, Even a compactlogix would be $1000 or more and then its a box to a box to SCADA.

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Significantly more. My driver is substantially cheaper than common Rockwell products, and competitive with most other brands, particularly when target node counts climb.

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I see, I was under the impression you already had some PLCs on the network. Definitely not worth it to buy a PLC just for that purpose then, a driver is much cheaper

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I mean, that isn't much of a challenge really... And unlike Rockwell products, your driver is designed to be compatible with third party equipment...

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If you're using Ignition Edge, the driver from @pturmel is even cheaper. The $1000 is for Ignition Standard, but I think the edge version is a fraction of the price.

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It is, but there are no options. You get them all unconditionally, at 30% of the price for standard Ignition EIP-CSA. (And no integrator discounts, just bulk discounts.)

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But $300 is cheaper than messing with Modbus most likely.

Nevermind, misunderstood the pricing.

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The full module, EIP-CSA, is $3000. In Standard, you can take lesser options to ease the pain. You get the full module in Edge for $900.

https://www.automation-pros.com/Module%20Sales-2024-11-05.pdf

Buying either of my Edge modules does get you the Integration Toolkit in Edge, too.

Just FYI:

$ find */src -name '*.java' -print0 | wc -l --files0-from -
....
91799 total

{In 511 files.}

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I do have many PLC's on the network but I have learned over time "the hard way" to not intertwine as much as possible for a SCADA system. I have corporate IT and it always a struggle to have them understand what a PLC is.