Pluto Gateway - Ethernet

Pluto Gateway Ethernet is a unit providing two-way communication with a Pluto Safety PLC.

Protocol

Pluto Gateway Ethernet GATE-E1 handles the status from and to Pluto Safety PLCs via Ethernet protocols —Ethernet/IP, PROFINET (in development), Modbus TCP and a simple binary protocol that uses TCP/IP. For IP-address configuration, etc. there is a simple web server and a terminal server.

Data from Pluto

Via one of the Ethernet protocols, a supervisory PLC system can have access to the I/O and other variables in a Pluto Safety PLC. Global I/Os in a Pluto Safety PLC are accessible via the usual I/O transfer in the respective protocol. Local data in Pluto units can be read by special commands together with the PLC codes in the supervisory system.

Data to Pluto

Via the Ethernet protocol, a supervisory PLC system can transmit non-safety-related information to a Pluto Safety PLC. A total of 64 Boolean values and 8 different 16-bit registers can be transmitted. Function blocks for these commands are available in Pluto Manager.