Decentralised remote I/O system
Turck Banner has introduced a decentralised remote I/O system for use in
Zone 1 hazardous areas, called Excom. The compact, modular system
replaces traditional cumbersome and expensive parallel I/O, and
integrates directly into an installation via standard industrial fieldbus
connections. Features include redundant power supplies and gateways,
intrinsically safe connection to Profibus-DP with V1 functionality,
on-line parameter setting and configuration, consistent and transparent
HART parameterisation from the control to the device level, hot-swappable
components and 128 digital or 64 analogue channels via a single bus
address.