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Industrial automation · manufacturing · OT — updated 2026-09-23

Modbus

Simple register protocol; RTU on serial, TCP on Ethernet.

The ubiquitous master/slave protocol from 1979: simple register reads and writes over serial (RTU) or Ethernet (TCP, port 502). No discovery, browsing, or security — and present on nearly every PLC, drive, and meter.

See also: PLC · OPC UA

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