Communication Protocols

Integrating different types of communication protocols is part of our job. With more than 500 types of integrated systems, we integrate a wide range of open or proprietary communication protocols.

Our software is able to communicate with your technologies through several types of communication protocols in order to receive information from the systems you wish to connect. Very often, the transmission of information passes by a communication driver which serves as a gateway between your integrated systems and our software.

What is a communication protocol?

Just like humans who speak the same language, two software systems communicate with each other thanks to a specific language called communication protocol.

The protocol in communication is therefore series of communication rules which will allow a software to understand another one. The software will be able to transmit and receive information from another software, also called two-way communication. It will also be able to just send information to a software without being able to receive it in return, also called one-way communication.

Types of communication protocols

The transmission and reception of data from one software to another can be done through aa open communication protocol or proprietary communication protocol. The open communication protocol (standart) is a protocol available for all software. It is a public protocol unlike the proprietary protocol which is private and developed by a specific manufacturer.

For each type of communication protocol, protocol rules are available : open protocol communication and proprietary protocol communication.

Open protocol
communication

 Modbus

Backnet

OpenTouch

OPC

HTTP

FTP

SIA

Proprietary protocol communication

Notifier

FlexC

API

SDK

Protocol rules with drivers and Sky-Walker

Depending on the type of communication protocols used by your systems, the information will be directly transmitted to a communication driver which acts as an intermediary between your software and our Sky-Walker software.

The communication driver recognises the information thanks to a common language and sends the information to our software which will receive the information and make it visible on the user interface.

The protocol rules depend on the language of your system and its adaptability with the driver. In other words how the system will manage to communicate this information to the Sky-walker driver.

Become an expert in communication protocol 

Many protocols, both open and proprietary, are used to transmit data and only a few of them, such as Modbus, Backnet or API, are known to the general public. However, there are many more protocols and it is necessary to be aware of them.

Through a personalised workshop, we would like to help you discover the different communication protocols, their advantages and their use.