Monitoring Industrial IoT data points as digital inputs on maps - Industrial IoT 5.0.2.0 | BACnet | Modbus | OPC Client | SNMP Manager

To monitor data points on maps, you must map their range of values to the standard states of a digital input: Normal, Active, and Trouble. Having done that, you can represent the data points on maps as if they were digital inputs.

1. From the Config Tool home page, open the Plugins task.
2. Expand the plugin role related to the device from the entity browser, select a device or an entity and click the Input behavior tab.
3. Click Add an input () and enter the following information:

   Data point

   Select the data point you want to configure as an input.

   States

   In the States section, configure the following:

   Normal state

   Define the input behavior for the Normal state using a comparison operator and a value.

   Active state

   Define the input behavior for the Active state using a comparison operator and a value.

   Trouble state

   Define the input behavior for the Trouble state using a comparison operator and a value.

   NOTE: The Trouble state is disabled by default. To enable it, select the Trouble state option.

   

   Fallback state

   Define the input behavior if all three state conditions return false. There are four options for the fallback state:

   • Keep the current input state (default)
   • Change the input state to Normal
   • Change the input state to Active
   • Change the input state to Trouble

4. Click Add and then click Apply.
   IMPORTANT: When two defined conditions are true, the system prioritizes the input state in the following order:

   1. Trouble
   2. Active
   3. Normal
   4. Fallback

Results

A virtual access control unit is added to the entity browser. It shares the name of the device or entity it was created from with the suffix "IO".