Modbus is an industry standard communications protocol for electronic devices. Given that most industrial sensors and meters provide their output by varying the voltage of the output pin between 0-10 Volts, Modbus compatible analog to digital converters are popular devices. Modbus is surprisingly resilient to interference. This is because it is based around the RS-485 standard. RS-485 is essentially a multi-point, balanced, version of RS-232 (which people might recognise as the serial port protocol), which is point-to-point, and unbalanced.
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