Description

Smart I/O and Modbus to MQTT Gateway

Control Solutions’ ValuPoint VP6-1460 connects physical I/O (e.g. sensors) to the Internet. In addition, the VP6-1460 turns any Modbus device into a Thing on the Internet of Things. The VP6-1460 will continuously monitor connected sensors. The VP6-1460 will also poll one or more Modbus RTU and/or Modbus TCP devices, collecting data from the list of registers you provide. Based on rules you create, the VP6-1460 will decide if and when to publish that data to the MQTT broker (server). You can also configure the VP6-1460 MQTT client to subscribe to data coming from the MQTT broker, which you can then write out to local I/O or Modbus devices to manage setpoints and the like.

ThingsBoard Support

The VP6-1460 MQTT client includes support for ThingsBoard’s unique MQTT API that allows you to connect your VP6-1460 data points to dashboard widgets such as gauges, knobs, buttons, and charts. Learn more about ThingsBoard here.

AWS IoT Support

The VP6-1460 includes everything necessary to connect to Amazon Web Services (AWS) IoT support using MQTT. Once the IoT connection is made, your VP6-1460 data can make its way to an AWS database, AWS notification services (e.g. email alerts, text messages), and a variety of analytics tools including QuickSight which makes it quite easy to quickly graph your data. Learn more about AWS IoT here.

Mosquitto MQTT Support

The VP6-1460 MQTT client works well with the widely used open source community supported Mosquitto MQTT broker available at https://mosquitto.org. Simply turn off features unique to ThingsBoard or AWS IoT when using Mosquitto MQTT.

Cloud Not Required!

The VP6-1460 is also suitable for stand-alone remote monitoring use. The VP6-1460 includes alarm monitoring with email notifications using its internal secure email client, local data logging with CSV files emailed to you instead of sending data to the cloud, and a real time scheduler for date and time scheduling.

Feature Highlights
• MQTT Client supports AWS IoT Core, Mosquitto MQTT, ThingsBoard
• Simple template based setup of MQTT Publish and Subscribe
• 12 Analog/universal inputs, software selectable types
• 2 Discrete outputs
• Modbus RTU Master or Slave
• Modbus TCP Client and Server
• Secure local email client
• Local data logging
• Real time scheduler
• Local user programming with Script Basic
• User HTML support for adding custom web pages
• Configure via secure web pages
• IPv4 and IPv6 support
• FCC, CE Mark, UL 916 Listed