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Dear Sirs,
I am 3rd year electrical engineering student. I am currently involved in gathering ideas for my senior project. I have knowledge in Allen Bradley PLC's and SLC's. The following are what I have in my mind for my senior project:
1) I am thinking doing a fault (message) annunciation from a PLC (preferably Allen Bradley) any dial-up device such as a pager, a
cellular phone, or a fax machine.
Can you tell me what do I need to do to accomplish this?
What I am thinking is to connect the channel 0 (serial) in AB PLC to a PC internal or external dial-up modem. Then using a programming language (I am assuming Visual Basic is a good one for this application) write a program to do the dialing and message displaying. Am I right on this? If I am wrong, please correct me. Right now I have no knowledge in visual basic but I am willing to learn it for this project. Does anyone have any sample code or anyone know any good web site that provide me with a sample
code?
2) Another application I have in mind is to interface the PLC (AB) with the internet. What I mean by that is to able to send inputs to the PLC through the internet and receive outputs from PLC to the internet. Is this doable with Allen Bradley PLC's?
If it is, then please help me on it. I am assuming that I probably have use the ethernet as the connection?!?! is that right? Or is there a way to do this using a serial communication and a dial-up modem? Let me hear your comment on this as well.
These are the two applications I planned to do for my senior project. If you have any better suggestion please let me know.
Thank you for your help in advance.
-Ravi Shan.com Inc.
I am 3rd year electrical engineering student. I am currently involved in gathering ideas for my senior project. I have knowledge in Allen Bradley PLC's and SLC's. The following are what I have in my mind for my senior project:
1) I am thinking doing a fault (message) annunciation from a PLC (preferably Allen Bradley) any dial-up device such as a pager, a
cellular phone, or a fax machine.
Can you tell me what do I need to do to accomplish this?
What I am thinking is to connect the channel 0 (serial) in AB PLC to a PC internal or external dial-up modem. Then using a programming language (I am assuming Visual Basic is a good one for this application) write a program to do the dialing and message displaying. Am I right on this? If I am wrong, please correct me. Right now I have no knowledge in visual basic but I am willing to learn it for this project. Does anyone have any sample code or anyone know any good web site that provide me with a sample
code?
2) Another application I have in mind is to interface the PLC (AB) with the internet. What I mean by that is to able to send inputs to the PLC through the internet and receive outputs from PLC to the internet. Is this doable with Allen Bradley PLC's?
If it is, then please help me on it. I am assuming that I probably have use the ethernet as the connection?!?! is that right? Or is there a way to do this using a serial communication and a dial-up modem? Let me hear your comment on this as well.
These are the two applications I planned to do for my senior project. If you have any better suggestion please let me know.
Thank you for your help in advance.
-Ravi Shan.com Inc.