Chapter 16: Distributed Control Systems, PLCs, and Networking
- A cluster that supervises multiple other processes.
- When a single process needs to be overseen.
- 125 Kbps, 250 Kbps, 500 Kbps
- One is ethernet based, the other is serial based, among other things such as speed.
- Star
- TCP/IP is slower but more reliable than UDP. UDP is faster but data integrity is not guaranteed.
- UDP
- Profinet, EtherCat
- 121 ohm