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londonelectronics

London Electronics: Making signs talk!

London Electronics enabled their large message displays to communicate on PROFIBUS.
We simply plug the Communicator in at the back of our displays and they are ready to go.
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James Lees, Director
London Electronics
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London Electronics Ltd. designs and manufactures large displays allowing their customers to measure and present any physical variable. Their displays communicate using serial RS485 communication while the input for the displays usually comes from a production system running some kind of industrial network. Consequently, this input needs to be “translated” in order to be understood by the displays.

 

PROFIBUS is a common fieldbus which the displays must communicate with

“We previously had our own PROFIBUS module inside our displays, but we realized that the overhead costs for producing the modules and staying on top of network communication were higher than buying a network communication gateway off the shelf,” says James Lees, Director at London Electronics.

“Now, we just order an Anybus Communicator from HMS whenever we need PROFIBUS communication, which is much more cost-effective.”

 

Quick to get up and running

Getting started with the Anybus Communicator was a quick process for London Electronics. The configuration between PROFIBUS and RS485 is made in the Anybus Configuration Manager software which is included in the product package from HMS.

This means that no programming is necessary and the setup can be made in a matter of minutes.

“Since we now have the configuration files ready, we can re-use these configurations whenever we have a new PROFIBUS-based display,” says James Lees. “We simply plug the Communicator in at the back of our displays and they are ready to go.” 


Enables communication with any network

With the Anybus Communicator concept in place, London Electronics can potentially connect their displays to any other fieldbus or industrial Ethernet network as well. The Anybus Communicator comes in 15 different network versions which mean that London Electronics’ displays can communicate with CANopen, CC-Link, EtherNet/IP, Modbus-TCP etc. by simply switching to another gateway.

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LEFT: Behind the display. The Anybus Communicator in action inside one of London Electronics’ displays, converting data from the PROFIBUS network to the display system.

RIGHT: How much cable is produced? Nexans is a global manufacturer of cables and cabling systems. This sign was delivered to one of their factories in Norway and displays how many meters of cable have been produced so far (hittil) compared to the goal (mål).

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