Industrial Shields is launching a new range of industrial PLCs based on the powerful and versatile ESP32 board. This new family of products joins Industrial Shields Arduino and Raspberry Pi-based controllers and diversifies the company’s industrial automation solutions.
With the inclusion of the ESP32 board, the Industrial Shields catalogue has been extended with 13 new controllers, which have similar references to those of the M-Duino family: 21, 42, 58, 19R, 38R, 57R, 38AR+, 53AAR+, 57AAR+, 54ARA+ and 50RRA+.
In addition, this board is also included in the 10 IOs ESP32 Digital and Relay modules.
As far as technical features are concerned, the ESP32 PLC has industrial communications such as:
• Ethernet,
• RS485,
• Serial Port,
• I2C,
• SPI and
• Modbus (RTU – TCP).
In terms of wireless communications, the devices are equipped with WiFi and Bluetooth LE.
The new ESP32 PLC controllers are now available for pre-order and will start to be delivered next May.
About Industrial Shields
Based in Barcelona and founded in October 2012, Industrial Shields is the trademark of Boot and Work Corp S.L. Present in over ninety countries worldwide and with a rapidly expanding distribution network, Industrial Shields designs, produces and sells industrial automation products (PLCs, Touch Screens and IoT devices) based on open source hardware such as Arduino or Raspberry Pi.
It is a fast-growing company, leading the manufacturing of equipment for industrial use based on open source technology. Through the use of its manufactured solutions, Industrial Shields wants to provide its customers with a high degree of competitiveness and technological innovation and is already a benchmark within its sector.