COMBRIDGE STUDIO SUITE - OPC

You would like to connect your EIB / KNX installation to an existing OPC Software Client* No problem - install ComBridge OPC Server as service on your PC on which you are running the OPC Client. The IPAS ComBridge Studio OPC Server starts communication automatically with the EIBnet/IP Gateways. For selection of the data points, ComBridge Studio OPC server ships with the ComBridge Studio InfoPoint Configurator. You can use your ETS projects to select the group addresses that are destined to the OPC Client. This avoids transmission of unnecessary data to the OPC client, it only gets the information that is relevant In conjunction with the ComBridge Studio Core and Webtab Service, the OPC service ensures a bidirectional communication according to DA2.0 specifications. The InfoPoint Configurator is used to determine which Datapoints are accessible to the OPC protocol so that an overload of the source and target systems can be avoided from the start. The OPC Client normally has a search feature to identify and address the IPAS ComBridge Studio OPC Server. All associated EIB/KNX group addresses are available to the supervisor at that moment in time for monitoring and control. The advantage of this solution consists in its scalability. When required, further EIBnet/IP devices can be added to avoid traffic on the backbone. Therefore intelligent combinations of filters and EIBnet/IP allows access to all information within the installation. Futhermore, the can be used across buildings that are connected by IP networks. You supervisor software is therefore able to access a multitude of buildings via ComBridge Studio without having to use multiple OPC servers, since ComBridge Studio already concentrates and routes back all information from and to the installations. At the same time the other ComBridge Studio functions can run in parallel, such as desktop office control, email and database services, etc..