The INC Operator Interface allows an operator to send and receive information on a CANopen or DeviceNet network. The operator interface contains a photocell and thermal sensor for measuring the current light intensity and temperature of the surrounding area. These values can be used to automatically control the contrast and backlighting of the display in environments where the conditions may frequently change such as in a vehicle. The display contains objects that can be used as building blocks for the construction of user interface screens. These include static text, multilingual text, operator input blocks, operator output blocks, etc. This allows the display to be configured with pre-programmed user screens and the network can simply select the screen to display. This pre-configuration saves the cumbersome task of sending text messages across a network. The display also has 254 variables of each supported data type (UNSIGNED8, UNSIGNED16, UNSIGNED32, SIGNED8, SIGNED16, SIGNED32, REAL32) available for operator input and for operator output. The variables can be used by the operator and or the network. Other features also include a piezo element for alerting the user to warnings and errors. The display includes a Windows configuration tool that allows all screens to be constructed and tested in a Windows environment. The configuration can then be downloaded to the display using a USB connection, IRDA, or one of several CANopen or DeviceNet interface cards. The operator interface can also be configured using the included EDS file or through Explicit/SDO commands.
The CANopen operator interface can support up to 8 TxPDOs and 8 RxPDOS. The first RxPDO pair defaults to being used to select the screen and the first TxPDO to getting its status. The Second RxPDO pair defaults to being used to send infrequently used variables and the second TxPdo to receiving them. The other PDOs default to the mapping of DataIn and DataOut variable. Of course, all of the PDOs are dynamically mapped so the user can configure them as they wish.

Price shown is for Operator Interface with 128x64 graphics display and 16 key Duraswitch tm membrane. Other combinations are available.

Network Operation:
The DeviceNet version supports UCMM Explicit, Poll, Peer-to-Peer, COS, and Strobe connections.

The CANopen version supports communication through SDOs and PDOs.

Please see the CANRS01 CANopen and CANRS01 DeviceNet Network Specifications for more details.

Applications:
Data Entry Terminal, Operator Interface, Alarm/Alert module