A pioneering standard cannot just be replaced.
We tailor it for the future.
AS-Interface is the certified, decentralized and powerful feeder system that perfectly manages data communication on the actuator/sensor level in all areas of automation technology – minimizing acquisition and engineering costs at the same time. The new generation ASi-5 raises this standard to a new level.
The new ASi-5 standard links the commonly available actuators and sensors of the lower fieldbus level to the upper Ethernet-based level even more efficiently, flexibly, and reliably.
The facts prove this:
- 16 bits per device per cycle
- 16 safe bits for safe communication
- Fast analog transmission (bidirectional)
- Concurrent parameter-data channel
- Channel-specific diagnostics
- Combined transmission of safe and standard data
- Maximum process data image 3,072 byte per system
- Flexible process data up to 32 byte per device
- Cycle time 1.2 ms
- System jitter less than 10ns
- 96 devices within 5 ms
- Fast analog value transmission
- IO-Link with 32 Byte cyclically integrated per device
- Parameterization possible using acyclic services
- 16 safe bits per device
- 96 safe devices
- 1,536 safe inputs and 1,536 safe outputs
- 3,072 safe inputs and outputs
- SIL 3/Performance Level e
- Integration in safe Ethernet solutions
- Acyclic services
- Channel-specific diagnostics
- Device-level diagnostics
- High diagnostics data width
- Predictive maintenance support
- Up to 96 devices per master
- Fully expandable with safety and standard devices
- Old and new slave generations can coexist on the same ASi network
- Existing installations can be extended with ASi-5
- Devices of any generation can coexist on the same ASi network
- Control via mobile devices
- ASi-5 Addresser with extensive features
- addressing
- parameterization
- diagnosis
- project memory
- Bluetooth interface
