Process Image Exchange Protocol (PieP) is a very simple Fieldbus

Fieldbus

Fieldbus is the name of a family of industrial computer network protocols used for real-time distributed control, now standardized as IEC 61158....

 protocol used for process automation. It is an application layer protocol developed over TCP

Transmission Control Protocol

The Transmission Control Protocol is one of the core protocols of the Internet Protocol Suite. TCP is one of the two original components of the suite, complementing the Internet Protocol , and therefore the entire suite is commonly referred to as TCP/IP...

/IP

Internet Protocol

The Internet Protocol is the principal communications protocol used for relaying datagrams across an internetwork using the Internet Protocol Suite...

. PieP uses method of transferring process images between I/O Devices and the PLC which makes the protocol simple to use. This protocol works just ensuring that the mirror of the input image in the PLC gets updated from from the generated input image from I/O Device and the output image in the I/O device is always maintained as same as the mirror image in the PLC.

See also

• Computer network
  Computer network
  A computer network, often simply referred to as a network, is a collection of hardware components and computers interconnected by communication channels that allow sharing of resources and information....
  
  
• Computer science
  Computer science
  Computer science or computing science is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and of practical techniques for their implementation and application in computer systems...
  
  

External Links

• PieP Open Source
• PieP Blog