SENA Device Server and Serial_IP Application Guide - Manual (Page 5)

1. Serial/IP
1.1 Overview
Sena bundles Serial/IP™ from Tactical Software as standard COM Port Redirector software of
Sena products. This software enables your existing serial communication programs that use
Windows serial port drivers to be used over the network allowing you to keep using your
existing program without any modification. It provides access to the serial ports of the Sena
Device Servers from multiple PCs over a TCP/IP network. Serial/IP™ Virtual COM port session
works either TCP client mode or server mode and communicates with Sena Device Servers
accordingly.
1.2 Application Diagram
1. Connect a Sena Device Server and PC on your network.
2. Configure the Sena Device Server to make its serial ports available to the network via
TCP/IP.
3. Install the Serial/IP Redirector software on the PC that will use devices attached to the
Sena Device Server.
4. Configure the Serial/IP Redirector to create one or more Virtual COM ports.
5. For each Serial/IP COM port, specify the IP address of a Sena Device server and the
TCP local port number that provides access to its serial ports.
6. In your PC application, change settings to use Serial/IP COM ports instead of local
COM ports.
7. Thereafter, your PC application can use serial ports on the Sena Device server instead
of local serial ports.