#io module

[bliiot-jerry]

Rugged Ethernet I/O Module M420T Pulse Output Control Stepper Motor Driver

Rugged Ethernet I/O Module M420T Digital output supports Sink output, of which the first channel can be used as high-speed pulse output, supporting pulse frequency 10Hz~300KHz.

[tragicvampireromanceisland]

mentioned inside out in my announcement to my students.... #winning

[awaketake]

Best Hugo Themes For Blogs and Portfolio Sites

In this video I'll cover the best Hugo themes for blogs and portfolio sites. Whether you're looking for a clean blog theme or a modern portfolio theme, there's something for everyone.

I'll show you 8 top-notch Hugo themes that offer unique features like video support, responsive design, and more!

Plus, I'll walk you through how to install and customize them for your brand.

[saromglobal]

ndustrial IO modules in enhancing process control within Industrial IoT (IIoT) environments. It delves into the functionalities and applications of various IO modules, highlighting their impact on data acquisition, control precision, system visibility, and scalability.

[asteamtechnosolutions]

Allen Bradley 1734 POINT I/O Modules

Modular design lets you independently select the I/O, termination style, and network interface

Modules slide together for easy install and uninstall for easier maintenance

Removable wiring system saves time and money during installation and troubleshooting

Comprehensive diagnostics and configurable features makes POINT I/O easy to apply

Removal and Insertion Under Power (RIUP) lets you replace modules while the system is in operation

Mount horizontally or vertically, with no de-rating required

Auto Device Replacement (ADR) reduces downtime

Add-on-Profiles in the Studio 5000 Logix Designer application provide smooth integration into Integrated Architecture systems

Available with conformal coating

[bliiot]

The Features of EtherCAT Distributed I/O Module

Product Introduction

BL202 coupler is a data acquisition and control system based on a powerful 32-bit microprocessor design with a Linux operating system. Support connecting to EtherCAT master station. The field side, the system side and the bus side are electrically isolated from each other. Support 2 X RJ45 interface, integrated switch function, can establish line topology, without the need for additional switches or hubs. Convenient wiring connection technology, screw-free installation.

EtherCAT Features

EtherCAT Distributed I/O modules play a significant role in industrial automation and control systems. EtherCAT Distributed I/O modules provide real-time communication, scalability, reduced wiring complexity, distributed intelligence, high precision and synchronization, open standardization, and flexibility in device placement. These features make them an important component in industrial automation systems, enabling efficient and reliable control of complex processes.

EtherCAT is known for its exceptional real-time performance.

EtherCAT Distributed I/O modules support a scalable architecture, allowing for easy expansion and adaptation to changing automation requirements.

EtherCAT utilizes a daisy-chain topology, where devices are connected in series using a single Ethernet cable.

EtherCAT Distributed I/O modules often feature built-in intelligence and processing capabilities.

EtherCAT's distributed clock mechanism ensures precise synchronization of devices within nanosecond accuracy.

[chriswu08]

Application of Distributed I/O in Lithium Battery Industry

Distributed I/O (Input/Output) is a technology that involves the use of multiple input/output devices and controllers to collect and distribute information throughout a system. In the lithium battery industry, distributed I/O systems are used to monitor and control various aspects of the battery manufacturing process.

One application of distributed I/O in the lithium battery industry is in the monitoring and control of battery production lines. Multiple sensors and controllers are placed at various points along the production line to collect data on parameters such as temperature, pressure, and chemical composition. This data is then transmitted to a central control system where it is analyzed and used to optimize the production process.

Another application of distributed I/O in the lithium battery industry is in the monitoring and control of battery management systems (BMS). BMSs are responsible for monitoring and controlling the state-of-charge, voltage, temperature, and other parameters of individual battery cells. Distributed I/O systems can be used to collect this data from multiple BMSs and transmit it to a central control system for analysis and optimization.

Overall, distributed I/O systems have become an important tool in the lithium battery industry for improving production efficiency, reducing costs, and ensuring product quality and reliability.

[guitarbomb]

Zoom MS50G+ Guitar Multi-Effects: A 2023 Upgrade

This new version builds upon the success of its predecessor, the Zoom MS-50G, which has been a go-to choice for guitarists seeking a compact and affordable multi-effect solution for over a decade. While it might not have always been hailed for its ultra-realistic sound and meticulous emulations, the MS-50G packed a lot of versatility into a single stompbox. Enhanced Effects Selection The Zoom…

[ehresh]

ROCKWELL Allen Bradley Input/Output (I/O) Modules

Gain Operational Efficiency with a Wide Range of I/O Solutions Whether your application requires the I/O to operate in harsh environments or hazardous areas, mount on a machine, or act as a local I/O for your programmable controller or more, pick what you need from us. Deliver a smart, productive, and secure Integrated Architecture® system in discrete, process, motion, and safety applications…

[bliiot-jerry]

BLIIoT Smart Street Light Monitoring Edge Router R40

BLIIoT Smart Street Light Monitoring Edge Router R40 can easily integrate field sensors/devices and access third-party systems and assets to provide real-time condition-based predictive insights to easily improve maintenance, sustainability and energy management.

[copperbadge]

This translates from the Italian as "The cook cooks the snake" which is getting a little wild for the Italian module, I feel. Although maybe it's like "Io ho l'ape" which is "I have the bee" but as the Italian readers informed me, "ape" is both a bee and a kind of amusing car, so perhaps il serpente is a kind of pastry or something.

Italians, tell me it's a kind of pastry. It's okay to lie if you have to.

[ID: A screengrab of the Duolingo app featuring Falstaff the Bear, who is smiling because I correctly transcribed "Il cuoco cucina un serpente" from an audio recording of him saying it. The phrase in English would read "the cook cooks the snake."]

[mostlysignssomeportents]

Subprime gadgets

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The promise of feudal security: "Surrender control over your digital life so that we, the wise, giant corporation, can ensure that you aren't tricked into catastrophic blunders that expose you to harm":

https://locusmag.com/2021/01/cory-doctorow-neofeudalism-and-the-digital-manor/

The tech giant is a feudal warlord whose platform is a fortress; move into the fortress and the warlord will defend you against the bandits roaming the lawless land beyond its walls.

That's the promise, here's the failure: What happens when the warlord decides to attack you? If a tech giant decides to do something that harms you, the fortress becomes a prison and the thick walls keep you in.

Apple does this all the time: "click this box and we will use our control over our platform to stop Facebook from spying on you" (Ios as fortress). "No matter what box you click, we will spy on you and because we control which apps you can install, we can stop you from blocking our spying" (Ios as prison):

https://pluralistic.net/2022/11/14/luxury-surveillance/#liar-liar

But it's not just Apple – any corporation that arrogates to itself the right to override your own choices about your technology will eventually yield to temptation, using that veto to help itself at your expense:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/28/microincentives-and-enshittification/

Once the corporation puts the gun on the mantelpiece in Act One, they're begging their KPI-obsessed managers to take it down and shoot you in the head with it in anticipation of of their annual Act Three performance review:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/12/08/playstationed/#tyler-james-hill

One particularly pernicious form of control is "trusted computing" and its handmaiden, "remote attestation." Broadly, this is when a device is designed to gather information about how it is configured and to send verifiable testaments about that configuration to third parties, even if you want to lie to those people:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/08/your-computer-should-say-what-you-tell-it-say-1

New HP printers are designed to continuously monitor how you use them – and data-mine the documents you print for marketing data. You have to hand over a credit-card in order to use them, and HP reserves the right to fine you if your printer is unreachable, which would frustrate their ability to spy on you and charge you rent:

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/02/hp-wants-you-to-pay-up-to-36-month-to-rent-a-printer-that-it-monitors/

Under normal circumstances, this technological attack would prompt a defense, like an aftermarket mod that prevents your printer's computer from monitoring you. This is "adversarial interoperability," a once-common technological move:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/10/adversarial-interoperability

An adversarial interoperator seeking to protect HP printer users from HP could gin up fake telemetry to send to HP, so they wouldn't be able to tell that you'd seized the means of computation, triggering fines charged to your credit card.

Enter remote attestation: if HP can create a sealed "trusted platform module" or a (less reliable) "secure enclave" that gathers and cryptographically signs information about which software your printer is running, HP can detect when you have modified it. They can force your printer to rat you out – to spill your secrets to your enemy.

Remote attestation is already a reliable feature of mobile platforms, allowing agencies and corporations whose services you use to make sure that you're perfectly defenseless – not blocking ads or tracking, or doing anything else that shifts power from them to you – before they agree to communicate with your device.

What's more, these "trusted computing" systems aren't just technological impediments to your digital wellbeing – they also carry the force of law. Under Section 1201 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, these snitch-chips are "an effective means of access control" which means that anyone who helps you bypass them faces a $500,000 fine and a five-year prison sentence for a first offense.

Feudal security builds fortresses out of trusted computing and remote attestation and promises to use them to defend you from marauders. Remote attestation lets them determine whether your device has been compromised by someone seeking to harm you – it gives them a reliable testament about your device's configuration even if your device has been poisoned by bandits:

https://pluralistic.net/2020/12/05/trusting-trust/#thompsons-devil

The fact that you can't override your computer's remote attestations means that you can't be tricked into doing so. That's a part of your computer that belongs to the manufacturer, not you, and it only takes orders from its owner. So long as the benevolent dictator remains benevolent, this is a protective against your own lapses, follies and missteps. But if the corporate warlord turns bandit, this makes you powerless to stop them from devouring you whole.

With that out of the way, let's talk about debt.

Debt is a normal feature of any economy, but today's debt plays a different role from the normal debt that characterized life before wages stagnated and inequality skyrocketed. 40 years ago, neoliberalism – with its assaults on unions and regulations – kicked off a multigenerational process of taking wealth away from working people to make the rich richer.

Have you ever watched a genius pickpocket like Apollo Robbins work? When Robins lifts your wristwatch, he curls his fingers around your wrist, expertly adding pressure to simulate the effect of a watchband, even as he takes away your watch. Then, he gradually releases his grip, so slowly that you don't even notice:

https://www.reddit.com/r/nextfuckinglevel/comments/ppqjya/apollo_robbins_a_master_pickpocket_effortlessly/

For the wealthy to successfully impoverish the rest of us, they had to provide something that made us feel like we were still doing OK, even as they stole our wages, our savings, and our futures. So, even as they shipped our jobs overseas in search of weak environmental laws and weaker labor protection, they shared some of the savings with us, letting us buy more with less. But if your wages keep stagnating, it doesn't matter how cheap a big-screen TV gets, because you're tapped out.

So in tandem with cheap goods from overseas sweatshops, we got easy credit: access to debt. As wages fell, debt rose up to fill the gap. For a while, it's felt OK. Your wages might be falling off, the cost of health care and university might be skyrocketing, but everything was getting cheaper, it was so easy to borrow, and your principal asset – your family home – was going up in value, too.

This period was a "bezzle," John Kenneth Galbraith's name for "The magic interval when a confidence trickster knows he has the money he has appropriated but the victim does not yet understand that he has lost it." It's the moment after Apollo Robbins has your watch but before you notice it's gone. In that moment, both you and Robbins feel like you have a watch – the world's supply of watch-derived happiness actually goes up for a moment.

There's a natural limit to debt-fueled consumption: as Michael Hudson says, "debts that can't be paid, won't be paid." Once the debtor owes more than they can pay back – or even service – creditors become less willing to advance credit to them. Worse, they start to demand the right to liquidate the debtor's assets. That can trigger some pretty intense political instability, especially when the only substantial asset most debtors own is the roof over their heads:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/11/06/the-end-of-the-road-to-serfdom/

"Debts that can't be paid, won't be paid," but that doesn't stop creditors from trying to get blood from our stones. As more of us became bankrupt, the bankruptcy system was gutted, turned into a punitive measure designed to terrorize people into continuing to pay down their debts long past the point where they can reasonably do so:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/10/09/bankruptcy-protects-fake-people-brutalizes-real-ones/

Enter "subprime" – loans advanced to people who stand no meaningful chance of every paying them back. We all remember the subprime housing bubble, in which complex and deceptive mortgages were extended to borrowers on the promise that they could either flip or remortgage their house before the subprime mortgages detonated when their "teaser rates" expired and the price of staying in your home doubled or tripled.

Subprime housing loans were extended on the belief that people would meekly render themselves homeless once the music stopped, forfeiting all the money they'd plowed into their homes because the contract said they had to. For a brief minute there, it looked like there would be a rebellion against mass foreclosure, but then Obama and Timothy Geithner decreed that millions of Americans would have to lose their homes to "foam the runways" for the banks:

https://wallstreetonparade.com/2012/08/how-treasury-secretary-geithner-foamed-the-runways-with-childrens-shattered-lives/

That's one way to run a subprime shop: offer predatory loans to people who can't afford them and then confiscate their assets when they – inevitably – fail to pay their debts off.

But there's another form of subprime, familiar to loan sharks through the ages: lend money at punitive interest rates, such that the borrower can never repay the debt, and then terrorize the borrower into making payments for as long as possible. Do this right and the borrower will pay you several times the value of the loan, and still owe you a bundle. If the borrower ever earns anything, you'll have a claim on it. Think of Americans who borrowed $79,000 to go to university, paid back $190,000 and still owe $236,000:

https://pluralistic.net/2020/12/04/kawaski-trawick/#strike-debt

This kind of loan-sharking is profitable, but labor-intensive. It requires that the debtor make payments they fundamentally can't afford. The usurer needs to get their straw right down into the very bottom of the borrower's milkshake and suck up every drop. You need to convince the debtor to sell their wedding ring, then dip into their kid's college fund, then steal their father's coin collection, and, then break into cars to steal the stereos. It takes a lot of person-to-person work to keep your sucker sufficiently motivated to do all that.

This is where digital meets subprime. There's $1T worth of subprime car-loans in America. These are pure predation: the lender sells a beater to a mark, offering a low down-payment loan with a low initial interest rate. The borrower makes payments at that rate for a couple of months, but then the rate blows up to more than they can afford.

Trusted computing makes this marginal racket into a serious industry. First, there's the ability of the car to narc you out to the repo man by reporting on its location. Tesla does one better: if you get behind in your payments, your Tesla immobilizes itself and phones home, waits for the repo man to come to the parking lot, then it backs itself out of the spot while honking its horn and flashing its lights:

https://tiremeetsroad.com/2021/03/18/tesla-allegedly-remotely-unlocks-model-3-owners-car-uses-smart-summon-to-help-repo-agent/

That immobilization trick shows how a canny subprime car-lender can combine the two kinds of subprime: they can secure the loan against an asset (the car), but also coerce borrowers into prioritizing repayment over other necessities of life. After your car immobilizes itself, you just might decide to call the dealership and put down your credit card, even if that means not being able to afford groceries or child support or rent.

One thing we can say about digital tools: they're flexible. Any sadistic motivational technique a lender can dream up, a computerized device can execute. The subprime car market relies on a spectrum of coercive tactics: cars that immobilize themselves, sure, but how about cars that turn on their speakers to max and blare a continuous recording telling you that you're a deadbeat and demanding payment?

https://archive.nytimes.com/dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/09/24/miss-a-payment-good-luck-moving-that-car/

The more a subprime lender can rely on a gadget to torment you on their behalf, the more loans they can issue. Here, at last, is a form of automation-driven mass unemployment: normally, an economy that has been fully captured by wealthy oligarchs needs squadrons of cruel arm-breakers to convince the plebs to prioritize debt service over survival. The infinitely flexible, tireless digital arm-breakers enabled by trusted computing have deprived all of those skilled torturers of their rightful employment:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/04/02/innovation-unlocks-markets/#digital-arm-breakers

The world leader in trusted computing isn't cars, though – it's phones. Long before anyone figured out how to make a car take orders from its manufacturer over the objections of its driver, Apple and Google were inventing "curating computing" whose app stores determined which software you could run and how you could run it.

Back in 2021, Indian subprime lenders hit on the strategy of securing their loans by loading borrowers' phones up with digital arm-breaking software:

https://restofworld.org/2021/loans-that-hijack-your-phone-are-coming-to-india/

The software would gather statistics on your app usage. When you missed a payment, the phone would block you from accessing your most frequently used app. If that didn't motivate you to pay, you'd lose your second-most favorite app, then your third, fourth, etc.

This kind of digital arm-breaking is only possible if your phone is designed to prioritize remote instructions – from the manufacturer and its app makers – over your own. It also only works if the digital arm-breaking company can confirm that you haven't jailbroken your phone, which might allow you to send fake data back saying that your apps have been disabled, while you continue to use those apps. In other words, this kind of digital sadism only works if you've got trusted computing and remote attestation.

Enter "Device Lock Controller," an app that comes pre-installed on some Google Pixel phones. To quote from the app's description: "Device Lock Controller enables device management for credit providers. Your provider can remotely restrict access to your device if you don't make payments":

https://lemmy.world/post/13359866

Google's pitch to Android users is that their "walled garden" is a fortress that keeps people who want to do bad things to you from reaching you. But they're pre-installing software that turns the fortress into a prison that you can't escape if they decide to let someone come after you.

There's a certain kind of economist who looks at these forms of automated, fine-grained punishments and sees nothing but a tool for producing an "efficient market" in debt. For them, the ability to automate arm-breaking results in loans being offered to good, hardworking people who would otherwise be deprived of credit, because lenders will judge that these borrowers can be "incentivized" into continuing payments even to the point of total destitution.

This is classic efficient market hypothesis brain worms, the kind of cognitive dead-end that you arrive at when you conceive of people in purely economic terms, without considering the power relationships between them. It's a dead end you navigate to if you only think about things as they are today – vast numbers of indebted people who command fewer assets and lower wages than at any time since WWII – and treat this as a "natural" state: "how can these poors expect to be offered more debt unless they agree to have their all-important pocket computers booby-trapped?"

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/03/29/boobytrap/#device-lock-controller

Image: Oatsy (modified) https://www.flickr.com/photos/oatsy40/21647688003

CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/

[bliiot]

Application of Real-time Data Collection and Monitoring of Distributed I/O in Glass Manufacturing

Background

The glass industry has made extensive use of PLC for many years to help manage the precise proportions of materials required in the production process. It relies entirely on its PLC for data collection and control, and relies heavily on manual operations, so these high costs have driven a search for lower-cost alternatives needs.

Scene description

The glass production produced by a glass factory includes five processes: batching section, melting section, forming section, annealing section and edge breaking section. Among them, melting, forming and annealing are the core links of the original film production line. If there is a problem in any link, All will affect the quality and production rate of the product. For example, the biggest impact on raw film output is temperature control, which is closely related to the heating and cooling conditions of the glass. Therefore, accurate and timely temperature collection in the furnace of the unit plays a crucial role in controlling the temperature. The normal production of the product is continuous operation 24 hours a day, and production cannot be stopped. Once the product quality is unstable, the production will not proceed normally.

A large amount of enterprise data remains in traditional records and is still stored through traditional methods such as reports and paper. The data source is not unique, some data are out of sync, the underlying collection is incomplete, manual troubleshooting is slow and inaccurate, and the number of affected products and the resulting losses are often huge.

Information lost

Reported information is conveyed layer by layer through phone calls or reports, and managers cannot obtain information such as product quality, production equipment, process processing, customer orders, and inventory in real time.

Coping strategy

In order to cope with the development needs of the glass industry and ensure safe and reliable data collection, BLIIoT launched the distributed I/O module-BL206Pro. It has the characteristics of high reliability, favorable price, easy setup, and convenient network wiring. It also supports equipment of different protocols, reducing enterprise procurement costs, and also deploys for the future IT/OT integration development of the manufacturing industry.

System specification

The glass smart factory system is composed of BLIIoT distributed I/O module BL206Pro and PLC on site to achieve coordination, unity and collaborative management and control of the workshop manufacturing process. It achieves a high degree of coordination and unity in all aspects of the glass, allowing control flow, logistics, and information flow to be clear and clear complete embodiment.

Distributed I/O collects production process data and is used to monitor key control points on site, such as temperature, gas, pressure, etc., to ensure stable production operation. PLC completes the logical control of the entire process flow. The cloud platform or PC-side equipment can set and access process parameters and set temperature and other parameters, and display them through interfaces such as HMI.

Product description

Excellent performance

It has multiple functions such as signal acquisition control, data calculation, logical linkage, data uploading to the cloud, and exception reporting! The controller adopts a plug-in design. Users can freely combine I/O according to their needs. It supports up to 32 I/O boards and 512 I/O signals. It adopts high-speed backplane communication and has built-in edge functions without the need for a host computer. It can realize linkage control of local I/O signals with the cloud platform or PLC, which greatly improves the response speed of the site and relieves the pressure of data processing on the cloud host computer.

BL206Pro product can collect Al, AO, DI, DO, PT100, RS485 and other data. Built-in integration of OPC UA, MQTT, MODBUS and other IoT bus protocols requires only one module for multi-scenario applications, perfectly adapting to changing flexible production lines.