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Process automation protocols


  • Interbus, Phoenix Contact's protocol for communication over serial links, now part of PROFINET IO
  • Modbus-NET - Modbus for Networks
  • Modbus/TCP
  • FINS, Omron's protocol for communication over several networks, including ethernet.
  • Host Link, Omron's protocol for communication over serial links.
  • Mechatrolink - open protocol originally developed by Yaskawa.
  • Optomux - Serial (RS-422/485) network protocol originally developed by Opto 22 in 1982. The protocol was openly documented and over time used for industrial automation applications.
  • PieP - An Open Fieldbus Protocol
  • BSAP - Bristol Standard Asynchronous Protocol, developed by Bristol Babcock Inc.
Source: wikipedia.org