Convert legacy Modbus RTU gear into reliable Ethernet and IIoT data without breaking your field network.
Modbus RTU devices on RS-485 lines are everywhere, but moving them onto Ethernet, SCADA and cloud platforms often leads to timeouts, wrong values, noisy buses and confused teams. Simple "serial to Ethernet" boxes rarely solve the real issues of timing, addressing, scheduling and security.
This book gives you a practical, end to end roadmap for taking real Modbus RTU devices, wiring and registers, and integrating them cleanly into Modbus TCP, SCADA systems and IIoT stacks. It focuses on what actually breaks in projects and shows you how to design, configure and debug gateways that stay stable under load.
- Understand Modbus RTU, Modbus TCP and RTU over TCP in depth, including framing, MBAP headers, transaction IDs and timing rules
- Wire RS 485 networks that stay stable, with correct bus topology, stub control, termination, biasing, grounding, shielding and surge protection
- Read and write coils and registers correctly, avoid off by one addressing mistakes and keep register maps clean and maintainable
- Work safely with data types, multi register integers and floats, endianness, scaling and engineering units in real vendor devices
- Design and tune gateways, including unit identifier routing, poll scheduling, retries, backoff, timeout models and multi client load handling
- Integrate gateways into PLC, HMI, SCADA, historian and cloud architectures with solid tag design, scan strategies, alarm and quality handling
- Use packet captures, serial taps, gateway logs and metrics to trace problems at the frame, transaction and tag level
- Apply practical security controls for Modbus TCP, including segmentation, firewalls, allow lists, VPNs and Modbus TCP security with TLS
- Bridge Modbus into OPC UA and MQTT, design clean information models, topics and rate control, and implement store and forward at the edge
- Plan poll cycle capacity, handle latency and jitter realistically and commission systems with structured checklists and acceptance tests
The book includes reusable material such as commissioning and troubleshooting playbooks, acceptance test scenarios for gateways, a gateway configuration template for timeouts, retries, unit IDs and limits, and a register map template with data types, scaling and validation steps that you can adapt to your own projects.
It is a code heavy guide, with working Modbus TCP client and server examples, Modbus RTU masters with timing safeguards, MQTT publishing patterns and practical snippets you can use as starting points for your own gateways and edge bridges.
Grab your copy today and build Modbus RTU to TCP integrations that stay reliable in real plants and field deployments.
