SCADA_RTU_LINK

Wayside RTU telemetry point with report-by-exception, integrity poll, quality determination and a master-heartbeat watchdog that calls for local control.

Validated application blockTransit · Station & WaysideIEC 61131-3IEC 61499v1.1.0

When to use it

Use SCADA_RTU_LINK when a wayside or station point is telemetered to the operations control centre over a SCADA link, and the station must know — and act on — the difference between a value the centre has seen and a value it has not.

Interface

The published port signature. This is the whole of what the block exposes to your program — the implementation body is not shown here and ships with the download.

Inputs

PortTypeUnit
ENABLEBOOL
PARAMSSTRING
POINTSTRING
POINT_INREALEU
SRC_OKBOOL
RANGE_LOREALEU
RANGE_HIREALEU
DEADBAND_EUREALEU
MAX_IDLETIME
HB_INBOOL
HB_TMOTIME
ACKBOOL

Outputs

PortTypeUnit
VALUEREALEU
QUALITYBOOL
UPDATEBOOL
LINK_OKBOOL
LOCAL_FALLBACKBOOL
PUB_COUNTUDINT
ALM_LINK_FAILBOOL
ALM_RANGEBOOL
ALM_SRC_FAULTBOOL
ALM_CFG_ERRBOOL

IEC 61499 event interface

EI INIT, REQ·EO INITO, CNF

Validation evidence

Tests
10
Simulated scans
169
Simulator
v0.1.0

Complete IEC 61131-3 implementation with a published test suite that runs on the vplant simulator. The counts above are that suite, executed on this build.

  • Conforms to IEC 61131-3
  • Conforms to IEC 61499

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