P-NET-Management über das Internet

For the interconnection of fieldbus systems and IP-based LANs, a gateway is required. A reasonable implementation approach is to split the gateway into two parts. One part then takes care of the SNMP protocol, while the other handles the actual communication with the fieldbus. This article describes the implementation of the fieldbus specific part for P-NET, a fieldbus specified in the European standard EN50170. The implementation uses the Windows-based software VIGO as a fieldbus driver. An approach for the configuration of the gateway is also presented.