Communication Plugins
MERLIC provides the some standard communication plugins that can be used immediately after the installation. Most of them are implemented for the communication via specific types of protocols and clients to control and monitor the vision system whereas the "save-results" plugin can be used to save data on disk.
Communication plugins can be configured on the "Communication" tab of the MERLIC RTE Setup. For more information, see Setting Up Communication Plugins.
When a plugin is started, it will be executed in a host process of MERLIC RTE. In addition, it will receive "events" from MERLIC to monitor the vision system and can post "actions" to control MERLIC.
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This plugin enables the communication with a Mitsubishi Electric MELSEC PLC via the MELSEC (MC) protocol.
This plugin enables the communication with a Schneider Electric Modicon®* PLC via the Modbus protocol.
This plugin uses MQTT to interact with external components. MQTT is an open OASIS and ISO standard for information exchange between (I)IoT devices.
This plugin provides an OPC UA server that can be used to integrate MERLIC as a machine vision system into a manufacturing machine and set up the communication to an OPC UA client.
This plugin exposes a subset of the C API for the communication plugin development in the form of a RESTful API, including a built-in example web application.
This plugin saves data contained in MVApp results to a configurable directory on disk.
This plugin enables the communication with programmable logic controllers (PLCs) or other hardware using Industrial Edge Connector apps.
This plugin enables the communication with the Siemens PLCs SIMATIC S7-1200 and SIMATIC S7-1500 via the SIMATIC S7 communication protocol.
* Modicon® is a registered trademark of Schneider Electric USA, Inc.
