Older serial and parallel buses aren't going away. Instead, they are speeding up. It's now possible to get a 40-Mbaud RS-485 serial connection—that's 5 Mbytes/s. With those serial bus speeds, ...

RS-485 is the chosen physical layer standard for numerous industrial communication systems, such as PROFIBUS systems, or for connecting devices like PLCs, SCADA systems, RTUs, or MODBUS systems.

Today, although the wireless technology grows very fast, the long distance funicular communication still keeps its popularity. The reason is obvious that cost and complexity is high at the wireless ...