Visual programming for CONTROLLINO

Visuino is a visual graphical development environment for CONTROLLINO. It allows you to create complex industrial automation systems and IoT (Internet of Things) solutions, simply moving and connecting several graphic blocks. Visuino will automatically generate the necessary CONTROLLINO code. Visuino also has built-in visualization of Scope and Gauges data, which makes it easy to connect and monitor the data sent to CONTROLLINO.

Programming with Visuino is easy: select the components (modules) from the Components Panel, move them to the Visual Design Area, connect them and configure the properties using the Object Inspector. The overview provides easy navigation for large projects. Visuino includes a built-in Communication Terminal, Scope, Gauges and other visual tools for monitoring and displaying data sent to CONTROLLINO. After your project is ready, pressing one button, Visuino will create all the necessary codes for Arduino and open the Arduino IDE (the Arduino development environment), where you can compile and load the code into CONTROLLINO.

Visuino contains a large set of components for: Mathematical functions / Comparators - Analog, Digital, Date / Time and Color / Logic functions - OR, AND, Exclusive OR, NOT / Flip Flops - T, RS, D, JK / Switches) - Analog, Digital, Date / Time and Color / Generators - Clock, Pulse, Sine wave, Triangle wave, Rectangle, Random / Timers - periodic or single pulses / Counters - Up and Down and Directional / Motors - Stepper motors, Permanent current or Servo (Servo) / Displays - LCD display, 7 segment, touch screens, matrices, Smart Pixels and TV outlets / Sensors - Temperature, Pressure, Weights, Distances, Compass, Accelerometer, Corner Coders / Remote Controls - Servo or PS2 compatible (PS-power source) / PID- Controllers (Controllers) / Connections - Serial, RS 485, Wired and Wireless Wi-Fi Ethernet or GSM / and much more.

Once CONTROLLINO is programmed, Visuino offers an easy way to connect to it via the Serial Port, RS 485, Ethernet, Wi-Fi or GSM and monitoring multiple data channels in the Terminal, Scope or Visual Tools. Do not let programming (coding) stand in the way of obtaining the decisions you need to monitor the industrial process. Visuino will program for you!

SCADA development with Delphi

I can mention at least three reasons in support custom SCADA development in Delphi.

Firstly, you have greater flexibility and customisation. You have more control over your automation project. Some parts of you hardware can be replaced by cheaper parts with the same functionality.

Cheap controllers like Arduino are becoming more competitive on today's market. Some hardware parts of your automation have different software interfaces and standards. For this reason using Delphi has more flexibility for integration of hardware from different vendors. Secondly, you can produce ready to use executables. Delphi is foremost known for its RAD features and royalties you obtaining when you build your own software. Thirdly, you can do it cross platform. FMX version of components allows to deploy your solution on Linux, Max and Windows.

Integrating PLC variables into your high level software often achievable with OPC technology.

OPC = OLE for Process Control. 

OPC is a software interface standard that allows Windows programs to communicate with industrial hardware devices. OPC is implemented in server/client pairs. The OPC server is a software program that converts the hardware communication protocol used by a PLC into the OPCprotocol. 

The value of OPC is that it is an open standard, which means lower costs for manufacturers and more options for users. Hardware manufacturers need only provide a single OPC server for their devices to communicate with any OPC client. Software vendors simply include OPC client capabilities in their products and they become instantly compatible with thousands of hardware devices. Users can choose any OPC client software they need, resting assured that it will communicate seamlessly with their OPC-enabled hardware, and vice-versa.

Usage of OPC servers from industry advanced vendors in your custom Delphi application is now available with Mitov's ControlLab components. There are two components for work with OPC server available: TCLOPCRemoteServer and TCLOPCClientGroup.

In order to display data acquisition points you'll need to register OPC server on your PC. After that you get access to Integer, Int64, Float, Boolean etc data points. 

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