50-Fold Transfer Rate

High-end sensors such as the VOS120-FFPL special vision sensor for exact rack fine positioning or the VDM100 series distance measurement sensor with highly precise Pulse Ranging Technology (PRT) are just two examples of innovations from Pepperl+Fuchs in the application field of automatic stock feeders.

The latest development heralds a new chapter in stock feeder automation. The LS680-DA optical data coupler operates with a data rate of 100 Mbit/s even over distances up to 150 m. It is approximately 50 times (!) faster than all other devices available on the market.

For the first time, this opens up the possibility of fast Ethernet transfer with an optical data coupler using the actual full bandwidth. Thanks to the protocol-free transfer, the new devices are suitable for both TCP/IP as well as industrial Ethernet dialects, such as PROFINET or EtherNet/IP.

With this unique solution, the “bottleneck optical data coupler” is finally a thing of the past. Now, it is easy to connect vehicle controls of the automatic storage and retrieval vehicles to the stationary control system without reducing the Ethernet transfer speed.

The implementation of new applications, such as the online transmission of high-quality image information, has a completely new basis in the LS680 optical data coupler, which inspires new ideas.