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Need integration-friendly industrial communication?

Optimize your communications with a wide range of industrial communication technologies. In the iC7 series, industrial communication functionality is available on the control board as a software feature, making it easy to integrate, save time, and provide efficient control and monitoring. These technologies ensure the iC7 series integrates seamlessly into your system and give you the freedom to communicate however you see fit.

Key Features & Benefits:

• Functional extensions
• Control options
• Industrial communication
• Control panels
• Harmonic filters
• Input filters
• Output filters
• Brake resistors

HIGHLIGHTS

• Scale up your installation easily
• Reduce system complexity
• Customize the system according to your needs
• Integrate flexibly into your application

Refer to the iC7 series fact sheet index for detailed compatibility.

Ease of connectivity

Available for iC7-Automation and iC7-Marine drives.

• iC7-Automation fact sheet
• iC7-Marine fact sheet

Fieldbus Communication

Modbus TCP OS7MT

• Parallel Redundancy Protocol (PRP)
• Beacon-based DLR - Device level ring
• LLDP
• Secure Modbus
• Standard IT tools
• SNMPv1, SNMPv2c

Choose MODBUS TCP when integrating the drive into a MODBUS TCP network. Unless another fieldbus is selected, Modbus TCP is standard.

PROFINET RT OS7PR, PROFINET RT/S2 OS7PS, PROFINET IRT OS7PI

PROFINET is available in 3 different variants supporting your individual needs with the right set of features.

PROFINET RT OS7PR:

• Shared device
• PROFIenergy
• PROFINET Diagnostics (ALARM CR) and Extended Diagnostics
• Easy Device Replacement (Topology Discovery + Parameterization)
• Withstand Netload class III. Alarm/Warning representation
• Media redundancy MRP
• SNMPv1, SNMPv2c

Device description file, GSDML, enabling iC7 application-specific standard telegrams along with PROFIDRIVE and FC Profile support.

• Choose PROFINET RT when integrating the drive into a PROFINET network
• Choose PROFINET RT/S2 when the drive is part of a PROFINET System redundant solution
• Choose PROFINET IRT if you need to integrate the drive into a PROFINET network with isochronous performance

EtherNet/IP OS7IP, EtherNet/IP CIP Energy OS7IC, EtherNet/IP Redundant Owner OS7IR

EtherNet/IP is available in 3 different variants supporting your individual needs with the right set of features.

• EtherNet/IP conform
• EtherNet/IP interoperability tested
• CIP Security
• ACD - Address conflict detection
• Beacon-based DLR - Device level ring
• LLDP, Std IT tools SNMPv1, SNMPv2c

Device description file, EDS, enabling iC7 application-specific standard telegrams along and FC Profile support.

• Choose Ethernet/IP when integrating the drive into an Ethernet/IP network
• Choose Ethernet/IP CIP Energy when integrating the drive into a Ethernet/IP network with energy and metering management
• Choose Ethernet/IP Redundant owner when the drive is part of an Ethernet/IP System redundant solution

EtherCAT OS7EC, EtherCAT DC OS7ES

EtherCAT is available in 2 different variants supporting your individual needs with the right set of features.

Main features:

• EoE
• CoE
• FoE
• Configurable OD
• ESI. Device model including communication adaptor

Application:

• Danfoss FC Profile
• CiA402

• Choose EtherCAT when integrating the drive into an EtherCAT network
• Choose EtherCAT DC when distributed clock is additionally required

Compatibility