Introduction of Advantech EdgeLink Studio
In an on-site application, one or several RTU devices may have been installed. If there is a tool which manages to carry out the configuration and management of these RTU devices as well as the whole project, the customers will definitely benefit a lot from it. Therefore, we have developed EdgeLink Studio to configure and manage the devices and the project which may have multiple devices under it.
Advantech EdgeLink Studio can run stably on Windows XP/ Windows 7/ Windows 10.
Double-click the installer icon and follow the instructions to install the studio. After the installation, the icon of Advantech EdgeLink Studio will appear on the desktop. Double-click it to start the configuration and management.
The main functions of Advantech EdgeLink Studio include:
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Configure the project and the devices offline. The studio can identify different Node IDs and download them to the device batch by batch.
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Create IO tags and local tags of engineering significance and implement the mapping between the tags and the addresses through Modbus and DNP3 server.
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Support the configuration of the input/output range of each channel for both onboard IO and extended IO, as well as AI calibration.
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For network communication, Ethernet, Wifi, Cellular are all supported.
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Since protocol services are crucial to communication devices, EdgeLink offers Modbus RTU, Modbus TCP and BACnet servers for users to select according to their specific requirements.
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Moreover, monitoring the communication status of both remote serial ports and network ports is supported.