About APPLICOM Communications

The APPLICOM Communications enabler uses APPLICOM Communication Server hardware and software to communicate with a variety of devices from different vendors using appropriate protocols.

Using this enabler, CIMPLICITY software can:

Poll points at a user-defined scan rate, on demand, or once at startup

• Read and write single points
• Read arrays
• Perform Engineering Unit conversion for meaningful point value displays
• Issue alarms to users when a device goes down
• Access the APPLICOM interface database

This enabler can support up to 8 APPLICOM interface cards in one computer.

This enabler supports the following CIMPLICITY features:

• Polled read at user defined rates
• Poll after setpoint
• Triggered reads
• Analog deadband
• Alarm on communications failure
• Server redundancy configuration

This enabler supports the following data types:

• Signed 8, 16, and 32 bit integers
• Unsigned 8, 16, and 32 bit integers
• Floating point
• Text
• Arrays