The uPAC-7186PEX-MTCP series features true IEEE 802.3af-compliant (classification, Class 1) Power over Ethernet (PoE) using a standard category 5 Ethernet cable to receive power from a PoE switch like the NS-205PSE. The uPAC-7186PEX-MTCP also works as a Modbus/TCP to Modbus/RTU or Modbus/ASCII gateway that supports most SCADA/HMI communications based on the Modbus communication protocol.

ICP DAS provides easy-to-use software development tool kits (Xserver, VxComm, Modbus libraries). Users can use them to easily integrate serial devices to have Ethernet/Internet communication ability and through the standard Modbus protocol to communicate with SCADA software (Indusoft, ISaGARF, DasyLab, Trace Mode, Citect, iFix, etc.).

For the hardware, it also supports an I/O expansion bus. The I/O expansion bus can be used to implement various I/O functions such as D/I, D/O, A/D, D/A, Timer/Counter, UART, flash memory, battery backup SRAM, AsicKey and other I/O functions. Nearly all kinds of I/O functions can be implemented by this bus but the bus can support only one Xboard. There are more than 30 boards available for uPAC-7186PEX-MTCP, user can use one suitable Xboard to expand hardware features.