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Communication overview

Aurora Vision products support different ways to communicate with other systems.

Supported industry standards

• PROFINET - requires additional hardware
  • Working with Hilscher device as a PROFINET slave.
  • Interfacing Hilscher card (Profinet) to Aurora Vision Studio.
  • Interfacing Profinet gateway to Aurora Vision Studio.
  • Interfacing Zebra 4Sight computer (Profinet) to Aurora Vision Studio.
• EtherNet/IP - requires additional hardware
  • Interfacing Hilscher card (EtherNet/IP) to Aurora Vision Studio.
  • Interfacing Zebra 4Sight computer (EtherNet/IP) to Aurora Vision Studio.
• EtherCAT - requires additional hardware
  • Interfacing Hilscher card (EtherCAT) to Aurora Vision Studio.
• OPC UA
  • Communicating over OPC UA
  • Using OPC UA Communication
• ModbusTCP
  • Working with Modbus TCP Devices
  • Using Modbus TCP Communication
• TCP/IP
  • Communicating over TCP/IP
  • Using TCP/IP Communication
• Serial Port communication

Exchanging data with other software

• TCP/IP
• REST API
• WebSocket
• FTP
• File System
• SQL

Other possibilities

Aurora Vision products have also dedicated tools for third-party hardware, including I/O modules and industry computers. All supported hardware can be found here.

Additionally, there is a possibility to add special functionality with a User Filter.