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LNS Driver Fact Sheet

 

 

Driver Name :

Lonworks Network Interface 

Driver Code :

LNS 

Device Mfr :

Echelon Corporation and Distech Corporation 

Driver Vendor :

GE-Fanuc Automation 

Last Updated :

10/23/2003 

 

 

Version

Platform

Version

Type

Media

Available

SCADA Support

Windows NT 

7.20b 

COMM, NET and RES 

Disk 

Yes 

FIX32/iFIX 

Windows 2000 

7.20b 

COMM, NET and RES 

Disk 

Yes 

FIX32/iFIX 

Windows XP 

7.20b 

COMM, NET and RES 

Disk 

Yes 

FIX32/iFIX 

 

Devices Supported

Mfr

Devices

Comments

Distech Controls 

EC-12, EC-8, EC-4, EC-Display, EC-FC, EC-RTU, ECU-88, EC-VAV 

Echelon 

Any LonPoint device 

Echelon 

i.LON1000 

Internet Server 

Echelon 

PCC-10 

Type II PC card in laptop (formerly PCMCIA) 

Echelon 

PCLTA-10 or PCLTA-20 

PC LonTalk Adapter. Type of resident card in PC 

Echelon 

SLTA 

Serial LonTalk Adapter 

 

Data Types

Data Type

Comments

ASCII 

Printable Text 

Float 

32 bit floating point 

Long 

Signed 32 bit Integer 

Signed 

Signed 16 bit Integer 

Unsigned 

Unsigned 16 bit Integer 

 

Signal Conditioning

Signal Type

Description

Comments

NONE 

No Signaling 

 

Comments

Additional Software Requirement:

Echelon LonMaker for Windows v 3 or higher.

 

Relevant Notes:

Once the Lonwork Network is configured and commissioned, the LNS driver will communicate with the LNS database and can update all the required network variables. It is not necessary to run the Lonmaker for windows software for execution of LNS driver. The LonMaker for Windows Version3.0.is required only to configure and commission the Lonwork Network.

The Driver Version supports the following types of Lonworks Network Variables:
1. Structured Variables (for example: SNVT_switch)
2. SNVT format variables (Standard Network Variable Types)
3. UNVT format variables (User Defined Variable Types)
4. SCPT (Standard Configuration Property Types) variables and UCPT (User Configuration Property Types) variables.

The LNS driver supports the Exception based processing feature for Analog and Digital I/O's to further improve the performance of the driver. To implement this feature for analog inputs, the Lonwork devices need to get configured with Dead band feature through Neuron C program. If the dead band feature is configured for analog devices then the exception based processing can be used for these devices.

This driver supports the following Distech point types and only apply when communicating to a Distech device.
1. Constants (Mode only)
2. Variable (Mode and Value)
3. Input (Mode and Value)
4. Output (Mode and Value)
5. Schedule State (Mode and Value)
6. Schedule On/Off Time
7. Holiday On/Off Time
8. Holiday Schedule
9. Device Time

 

 

Contact Details :

Sarla Technologies
403/404, Bldg No. 2, Sector - 1,
Millennium Business Park,
Mahape, Navi Mumbai - 400 701,
Maharashtra, INDIA
Tel  : 91 22 2778 2979
Fax : 91 22 2778 1059
E-mail : sales@sarlatech.com

 
   

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