One of the biggest frustrations with Modbus! Floating point numbers. Modbus only defines 16-bit registers—it doesn’t specify how multi-register values like 32-bit or 64-bit floats should be formatted. Different manufacturers use different byte orders, leaving you with a puzzle to solve. 🔄 Big-endian or little-endian?🔄 Word-swapped or standard?🔄 IEEE 754 or custom format? If you’ve …
RS-485 is known for its ruggedness and reliability, but there’s one invisible problem that can silently destroy your devices—Common Mode Voltage (CMV). 🔍 What is Common Mode Voltage?CMV is the voltage difference between the ground of two connected devices. In an ideal world, all grounds would be at exactly 0V relative to each other. But …
Read more “💥The Silent Killer of RS-485 Networks: Common Mode Voltage.”
💥Senquip Vision💥 A Powerful New Dashboard for Your Operations Senquip is pleased to announce the upcoming release of Senquip Vision, a highly customisable dashboard designed to provide businesses with a clear and intuitive interface for monitoring and analysing key operational metrics. Whether for management, maintenance, or operational teams, Senquip Vision enables real-time tracking, historical trend …
New Website Senquip has a new website 🥳🙌🎉🎊🎈🍾 The new website focusses on solutions rather than products. We hope that this will better communicate the value that Senquip devices bring in our focus application areas: We have used many images that have been provided by distributors – thank you. I would encourage you to continue …
A customer recently got caught out when interfacing to an engine controller with Modbus. The data to be read was shown with register numbers 400001 onwards. Of course, in Modbus land, 400001 means the data is contained in a holding register (4) and the register number is 1 (00001). Register 1 has address 0 and a …
Graphical Interface Senquip is thrilled to announce the release of user customisable widgets for the Senquip Portal. Users can now create their own graphical displays that convey measured data in a way that is meaningful to the user. Enhance your widgets with images, text, data, dynamic level indicators, and status lights. Water Sensor Senquip QUAD …
Satellite Enabled 5G Communications NTN is a 5G communications standard that enables satellites to bring LTE connectivity to regions that were previously unreachable by terrestrial networks. NTN-IoT expands the reach of IoT devices, enabling global coverage. NTN-NR directly links smartphones and other 5G devices by satellite. Senquip is currently making changes to Senquip ORB and …
Direct Communication with a Web API With the addition of the HTTP.query function to the Senquip Scripting language, Senquip devices can now communicate directly with web APIs. Initial applications include taking action based on spot energy prices, on weather and air quality reports, and retrieving geolocation information such as a physical address from a GPS …