IEC 870-5-104 Simulator1.0

IEC 870-5-104 Simulator is a lightweight software application whose purpose is to help you simulate master and slave protocols. This simulator is specifically designed for the IEC 870-5-104 protocol and is suitable for protocol communication tests and troubleshooting.

Clean and simple GUI

The program reveals a well-organized set of features and implements several handy buttons in the main window for helping you easily trigger several tasks, namely start, pause or stop the current simulation process.On the downside, it doesn’t offer support for a help manual that could help rookies learn more about the tool’s capabilities.

Simulation features

IEC 870-5-104 Simulator reveals an Explorer-like layout that gives you quick access to the master and slave parameters. You can easily check out information about the master protocol (name, sector and status) and enable or disable them.The tool lets you work with multiple master protocols for the slave device, monitor raw data exchange, as well as simulate command and feedback status, set point and feedback analog, as well as step command and feedback step position. Additionally, you may import master and slave tags from Excel files and export monitoring log info to RTF file format.What’s more, you can enable sectors and alter them in terms of name and sector number, and tweak tag properties by entering details about the name, type, time tag, IOA, IOA structure, quality (e.g. overflow, blocked, invalid) and tag link.

A few configuration settings

Last but not least, you can make the application automatically open the last configuration file, automatically run the device at startup, and tweak several master settings by altering the name, connection (IP address and port), timing parameters (in seconds), general interrogation and clock sync (in seconds), as well as time zone.

Bottom line

All in all, IEC 870-5-104 Simulator delivers a straightforward software solution for helping you simulate master and slave stations. However, it hasn’t been updated for a long time so you may encounter several incompatibility issues on newer operating systems.