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Basics of data interfaces ibaPDA
2 Basics of data interfaces
The data interfaces establish the connecon between ibaPDA and the plant, process or control.
All data and signals to be measured are acquired via them.
2.1 Introducon
To connect the ibaPDA system to the most common communicaon standards and most PLC
systems there are diî„«erent types of interfaces. These interfaces support both standard proto-
cols as well as selected system interfaces with special components.
For all interfaces, one or more modules are available for further conguraon, which make it
possible to customize the measured data acquision and in which the actual measuring signals
are conî„®gured.
Interfaces to standard î„®eld-bus technology, such as PROFINET, PROFIBUS and CAN-bus, are gen-
erally implemented with corresponding devices in combinaon with ibaFOB input boards.
The data interfaces form the trunk of the interface tree in the le eld of the I/O Manager.
In the following context, the interfaces are grouped together.
■ Default interfaces
These interfaces are always available in the I/O Manager regardless of licenses. These in-
clude, for example, ibaCapture, Playback and Virtual.
See ì Standard interfaces (always available), page 29.
■ ibaNet interfaces
These interfaces are available in the I/O Manager if the corresponding board (ibaFOB-card) is
inserted into the computer. All iba devices with ibaNet ber-opc interfaces can be connect-
ed to these interfaces. These include, for example, ibaFOB-io-D, incl. all board versions (-io,
-2io, -4i, -4o) and ibaFOB-io-ExpressCard (-34, -54).
See ì ibaNet data interfaces (for iba devices), page 112.
■ Ethernet-based interfaces
These interfaces are available in the I/O Manager if the appropriate interface license is
enabled in the dongle. On the hardware side, the network interface of the computer or an
addional network card is used. These include, for example, EGD, ibaLogic TCP and MQTT.
See ì Ethernet-based interfaces, page 161.
■ PLC-Xplorer interfaces
These interfaces are available in the I/O Manager if you have purchased the
ibaPDA-PLC-Xplorer product or licensed the appropriate Xplorer interface in your ibaPDA
system. With the excepon of S7-Xplorer, these interfaces only use the network interface of
the computer. These include, for example, ABB-Xplorer, S7-Xplorer and TwinCat-Xplorer.
See ì PLC-Xplorer interfaces, page 191 and the corresponding manual for the each inter-
face.
■ Drive-Xplorer interfaces
These interfaces are available in the I/O Manager if you have purchased the
ibaPDA-Drive-Xplorer product or licensed the appropriate Xplorer interface in your ibaPDA