Cyber physical system

Abstract

A cyber physical system including at least one monitoring and safety device for monitoring various parameters of a machine with regard to the maintenance of setpoint values and for generating an error signal in the event of an error and a hard-wired interface to the Internet and a transmission and/or reception unit for transmitting and/or receiving data over the Internet, wherein the monitoring or safety device is connected to the transmission and/or reception unit for transmitting the error signal over the Internet. The hard-wired interface is connected to a controllable switch for physical disconnection and enabling of the connection between the cyber physical system and the Internet, and the cyber physical system has at least one control unit connected to the monitoring or control device for triggering the controllable switch for brief enabling of the connection between the cyber physical system and the Internet.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.