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Industrial Communication Protocols

Introduction: –

Industrial communication is a very important part of industrial automation. In this, you can find Industrial Communication | Types of Fieldbus Protocols.

In past decades growth of industrial automation rapidly increased and digital control strategy became more popular. That’s why standard communication protocols have started to be used in industries.

Fieldbuses are networks that combine hardware, software, and communication protocols for interconnecting field devices to controllers.

Due to the digitalization in the industry, high-performance Fieldbus networks need to transfer a massive amount of data efficiently and rapidly for the smooth operation of the plant.


Industrial Communication Levels

Industrial communication is divided into three main levels according to the given below.

  1. Plant Level
  2. Cell level
  3. Device Level

Different Communication levels in plants
Different Communication levels in plants

1. Plant Level

This communication level is the final level of industrial communication. Plant-level communication is responsible for transferring and receiving enterprise-level communication data to lower levels of plants.


2. Cell Level

This layer transfers data from the device level to the plant level. At the cell level communication controllers are connected with some standard communication protocol.


3. Device Level

And This layer is all about communication between field sensors to controllers.

This layer is responsible for transferring process data and the status of the process to cell-level devices.

Categorization of Industrial Networks


All industrial communication network is divided into four parts: –

  • Field area network
  • Local area network
  • Wide area network
  • global are network

Levels of Industrial Networks
Levels of Industrial Networks

1. Field Area Network: –

Fieldbus is the network that is responsible for providing communication between sensors and controllers. different type of field area network protocols is used in the industry it’s called Fieldbus.

All field users follow standards decided by international organizations. These are all listed below.


NoOrganizations
1International electrotechnical commission (IEC)
2International standard organization (ISO)
3European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization (CENELEC)
4Instrumentation Society of America (ISA)
5American National Standard Institute (ANSI)
International communications standard providers.


Leading international standards in the industrial communication area is provided by the International Electrotechnical Commission.


Industrial Communication | Types of Fieldbus Protocols


NoIEC Certified ProtocolCommunication Protocol
NoIEC Certified ProtocolCommunication Protocol
1YESProfibus
2YESProfiNet
3YESModbus
4YESP-net
5YESHART
6YESWordFIP
7YESAS-i
8YESControlNet
9YESDeviceNet
10YESFoundation Fieldbus
11NOBITBUS
12YESINTERBUS
13YESIO-LINK
14NOOMLOX
15YESEtherCAT
16YESEtherNet/IP
17YESCC-Link
18YESRAPIEnet
19YESSERCOS
20NOCAN Bus
21NOTTEthernet
22YESVnet/IP
23NOCNet
24YESSafetyNet
25YESOPC-UA
Fieldbus protocols Used in industry

IEC-certified protocols are mostly used in industrial communication. So, this is all about field area networks and different communication protocols used in field bus communications.

The Communication Protocol used at higher level is discussed in other posts so stay tuned for the next post.


2. Local area network

After reaching all-sensors data to control by using this Fieldbus communication protocol all controllers are transmitting data through using Ethernet.

Now, most data are transferred by using Ethernet protocol as per the IEEE 802.3 standard.

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KISHAN MENDAPARA
KISHAN MENDAPARAhttps://worldofinstrumentation.com
Instrumentation and Control Engineer

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