75F Modbus Integration

What is Modbus?

Modbus is a communication protocol that provides a common language for devices and equipment
to communicate with each other. The Modbus protocol provides the internal standard that 75F
devices use for parsing messages. The Modbus protocol is defined as a master/slave protocol, that
is, a device operating as a master pings one or more devices operating as slave. During
communications on a Modbus network, the protocol determines how each 75F device knows the
connected slave's address, recognizes a message addressed to it, determines the action to be taken,
and extracts any data or information contained in the message.  

Modbus is an important communication protocol for different equipment in the building managing
system (BMS) to communicate and exchange parameter values. 75F devices act as an integrator
platform for third-party equipment that have Modbus enabled to communicate with our system. 75F
applications must in turn show them in a single unified view to see data on multiple
dashboards/portals.

Why Modbus?
As the 75F system is being deployed successfully,
clients are increasingly looking at 75F to replace the
BMS systems in their upcoming greenfield sites. While
75F products can address mostly HVAC needs, there
are other requirements pertaining to monitoring of
critical room cooling, power back up and safety which
will be mapped into 75F systems via Modbus
communication.

Modbus Profiles

1) Precision Air Conditioning - Precision Air Conditioning (PAC) units are typically used in
places such as server rooms or data-centers that require an environment with high levels of
heat value to dissipate. PAC units provide constant temperature and humidity conditions
to sensitive and expensive electronic equipment by controlling the ambient environment.

2) Water Leak Detection System - Water Leak Detection (WLD) systems are used to detect
leaks from equipment such as water pipes or areas such as bathrooms, wet rooms, kitchens
and so on. To prevent any damage to critical rooms due to water leakage, a dedicated alarm
system is provided. This allows managers to take corrective action before any damage occurs.
 3) Rodent Repellent System- Rodent Repellent Systems (RRS) are used to remove pesky
rodents from secure areas such as hub rooms or server rooms where they cause damage to
cables by chewing them. Any replacement of the damaged cables is not only disruptive to
the daily operations of the building but also expensive. RRS is a Modbus-based system,
controls underfloor transducers by continuously emitting ultrasonic frequencies that keep
the rodents away.

4) Uninterruptible Power Supply – Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) is an electronic device

used to supply power to devices such as computers, telecom equipment etc. so no critical
data is lost whenever there is a power outage. Usually, UPS powers on critical equipment
present in a facility and requires alerts and status updates regarding the power and backup
parameters.

5) Variable Refrigerant Flow – Variable Refrigerant Flow (VRF), also known as Variable
Refrigerant Volume (VRV) is an HVAC technology that uses refrigerant as the cooling and
heating medium. VRF HVAC systems use variable motor speed and variable refrigerant flow
to heat and cool unlike standard units that use a simple on/off operation. VRF is integrated
using Modbus protocol so you can monitor and control VRF.

6) Energy Meter – Energy meters are widely used to measure the power consumed by the
device. Energy meters with an integrated Serial RS-486 Modbus interface allows direct
reading of all relevant data, such as energy (total and partial), current, and voltage for every
phase and active-reactive power for every phase.

Advantages

1) Predefined and Custom Visualization charts - You can create predefined and custom widget
for parameter category like Consumption, Cost Index and Site Intensity where energy meter
profile data are used. Apart from this, other custom widgets can also be created for all the
Modbus point of various profiles.
2) Aggregated Data view in one portal.
3) Automated Commissioning
4) Haystack Tagging - Tagging and data modelling have numerous benefits in the Buildings
industry. One of the most important but time-consuming tasks for implementing an intelligent
building is the initial checkout and on-going retro-commissioning. Tag based automated
commissioning gives you the ability to create a set of tasks and apply them globally across an
entire system of equipment. Each step is executed automatically, and the results are
summarized in a checkout/commissioning report. No more spending hours manually checking
sensors, stroking dampers, and recording results.
 5) Heatmaps

Modbus Configuration Dashboards

On the CCU Settings page, you can configure Modbus by selecting the baud rate, parity, data, and
stop bits that are already set across all slave devices in the network. In any network, there can be up
to 32 slave devices. For example: In a network, there can be 25 energy meters or a combination of
10 energy meters, 5 UPS, and 8 RRS, or any other combination. But for the slaves, the Modbus
configuration setting must be the same.
 Details of Modbus Zones added to 75F System
In the CCU UI floor planner, Modbus is an additional type of support integrated into the system
while pairing modules.

Screen Flow = Floor Planner> Pair Module > MODBUS Equipment > Settings Screen for Zone name, Equip Settings edits

Example: In the following example, the user is adding a PAC unit of a particular company by choosing the desired equipment model o
number between 1 - 247. Once the equipment type is selected, all the parameters related to that equipment are displayed. The user