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General
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About this manual
This manual will give you the guidance to install and connect the PiiGAB M-Bus 900 to your
network. It demonstrate how you connect to network, RS232, RS485, M-Bus Slave and the M-
Bus Master output as well as how you configure the module based on your requirements
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Functional overview
The PiiGAB M-Bus 900 works as an interface between the Ethernet/RS232/RS485/M-Bus slave
entrance and the M-Bus network. The gateway is completely transparent which means that the
M-Bus questions asked via Ethernet are transferred out on the electric M-Bus interface. The
same goes for the answers sent from the meters via the gateway.
The gateway also has the option to add different software modules to meet requests such as
conversions between protocols, reading the same meter from different clients and sending files
to a database etc.
1.3
Advantages and possibilities
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The possibility to choose between TCP/IP or UDP/IP
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The gateway can be used with a fixed or a dynamic IP number.
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It is not dependent on any specific operating system, which means it can be used with
both Linux and Windows.
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There is a possibility to use password protection to prohibit unauthorized to change the
configuration.
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Communicate with up to four clients at once.
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Read M-Bus meters via Modbus (TCP/RTU).
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Read Modbus meters or other Modbus equipmen
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via M-Bus.
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Local and central reading of the same meter from different directions at once.
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Connect to existing M-Bus network.
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Makes it possible for redundant communication.
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Read meters via M-Bus and Modbus at the same time.
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Read a few M-Bus meters without external M-Bus drivers via M-Bus ASCII.
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Can upgrade number of M-Bus loads (meters) and number of clients via a software
license.
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Via the QuickPost application can meter values be logged and pushed to an FTP or
HttpPost server.
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Read virtual M-Bus meters.
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