We’ve got one of ADAM 5000 TCP from Advantech some days ago. It looks like this:

Our aim was to enable communication with it through Modbus protocol over Ethernet. Thanks to many libraries inside of our system for industrial registering we managed to get it working in some hours. Currently, we already have a library ADAM 5000 TCP that handles everything around reading and writing to the hardware.

During all those tests we agreed that we are very happy with the results of this hardware and the price is not that high like other hardware of the same category and quality. In addition we have to say that its internal CPU allows to upload programs to handle its behavior, the language for programing is kind of C.

No animals were injured during those tests. 🙂