# IEC 60870-5-104 Connectivity

To interact with peripheral stations of the IEC 60870-5-104 standard, the server provides an IEC 60870-5-104 device. The device functions as a master node in an Ethernet network and implements most of the application commands of the 60870-5-5 standard.

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* Representation of value, quality descriptor, cause of transmission, timestamp as OPC UA elements.
* Periodic, manual, event-driven call of applied commands (general interrogation, counter interrogation, time synchronization, etc).
* Controlled station time zone setting.
* SSL support.
* Proper writing of buffered data to external database.
* Shared TCP/IP channel concept for primary device and subdevice.


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