In this episode of Produal Academy, we are introducing the Produal MLB transmitter.
MLB is a class A LoRaWAN device that can operate in a public or private network. MLB is designed for converting Modbus RTU messages to wireless LoRaWAN messages and vice versa. The device functions as a Modbus master and it can read and write up to 32 registers via Modbus RTU bus. The slave device registers can be configured freely. Up to 16 Modbus slave devices can be connected to MLB and up to 32 registers can be read and written in total. MLB can be connected to any Modbus RTU slave device, and it supports two-way communication.
Contents of this video:
0:00 Intro
0:25 General introduction of the MLB
01:40 Connecting to the MLB device using NFC
02:50 Adding a Modbus device manually / Configuration of payload
06:03 Transmit group settings
07:28 Modbus bus settings
07:40 LoRaWAN settings
08:18 Naming MLB device
08:25 Transferring the settings to the MLB device
08:39 Creating Modbus description files in the MyCloud service
11:49 Using the Modbus description file in the MLB
13:07 Copying the installation file to multiple MLBs
14:36 Reading the MLB payload from the LoRaWAN network
