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What is Modbus?
Modbus is one of the oldest still-deployed industrial communication protocols. In buildings, it's most common on energy meters, sub-meters, and legacy equipment.
Modbus is a serial communication protocol introduced in 1979. It survives because it is extremely simple, royalty-free, and supported by virtually every industrial vendor. Modern variants — Modbus TCP and Modbus RTU — cover both IP and serial deployments.
In modern buildings, you'll most often find Modbus on energy meters, sub-meters, water meters, and any legacy equipment whose vendor never moved up to BACnet or OPC UA. It's also common in industrial sites and energy infrastructure.
FrostLogic Explore reads Modbus TCP natively; serial RTU is supported via a gateway. As with all our ingest, the connection is read-only by default.
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