Altus Sistemas de Automação S.A

Nexto Xpress

Coming up as Altus newest release, Nexto Xpress arrives with compact design (212,5 x 90,1 x 32,2 mm) and 24 Vdc power supply, which makes it the ideal solution for the embedded control of machines and small size applications. Its ARM 32 Bit processor, combined with the Real Time Clock (RTC), high density of multiple purpose (tension, current and RTD) digital and analog I/O, gives the application an elevated processing capability, accuracy and agility on data acquisition.

Created to meet the demands of highly connected environments, the solution supports a wide variety of communication protocols, which enables you to interact with different types of intelligent machines and systems. In addition to Ethernet based protocols, such as Client/Server MODBUS TCP, MQTT, OPC DA and OPC UA. Xpress products also count on RS 485, CAN and USB Serial communication interfaces, Web Visualization and IEC 60870-5-104 Server.

The new member of Nexto family counts on four models that are different in number of points and communication ports: P300, XP315, XP325 and XP340. With up to 43 I/O points per product, the Xpress equipment also features LEDs for indication of status and diagnostics, DIN rail assembling and terminal blocks.

Nexto Programmable Controllers Series is an advanced automation system able to control in a distributed and redundant way, complex industrial processes, high performance machines and production lines.

Integrating Distributed Control Systems (DCS’) features, Nexto Series presents resources for all stages of your application life cycle with its integrated programming and configuration environment based on IEC 61131-3 standard, speeding up development and reducing engineering and commissioning costs.

Its architecture allows easy integration with traditional supervision systems, not to mention its high availability capability with redundancy of CPUs, power supplies, supervision and control networks and field buses. The Series offers advanced diagnostics and hot swapping, minimizing or eliminating downtime for maintenance and ensuring a continuous production process.

Improving even more its existing product line, Nexto Series counts on high reliability modules and specific editors for the development of applications with functional safety requirements in compliance to international standards.

Altus has the solution for Power Generation, Transmission and Distribution: the Hadron Xtorm. This Remote Terminal Unit (RTU) Series was designed based on international standards such as the IEC 61850 and IEC 61131-3, promoting a revolutionary innovation in applications of this segment.

Hadron Xtorm is the result of the consolidated Hadron Series, an Altus product that has been present in the market for several years, where it has developed a large installed base and a diversity of applications. This product offers outstanding features such as redundant power supplies and redundant CPUs in the same rack. It also has native protocols such as DNP3 and IEC 61850 (MMS and GOOSE), and meets telesupervision requirements by grouping digital protection events.

The modular architecture of Hadron Xtorm provides a wide variety of input and output modules, which combined with a powerful 32-bit CPU and a bus based on deterministic high-speed Ethernet, meet the requirements for many applications.

CoDeSys

Both Nexto programmable controllers, Nexto Xpress and Hadron Xtorm remote terminal units series were created using 3.x version of CoDeSys development environment system. In addition, MasterTool, programming software of these two series, uses the customized IDE automation platform. Moreover, the CPUs of both lines run through CoDeSys Run Time System.