Internet protocol (IP)-enabled smart transducer
AssigneeHoneywell International Inc.
InventorsRoland Essmann, Darek Kominek
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Abstract
An Internet Protocol (IP)-enabled smart transducer includes a sensor for generating field data regarding a physical quantity associated with processing equipment or a device in an industrial processing facility, and a signal conditioning circuit for at least one of amplifying and filtering the field data to provide conditioned field data. A communications interface is coupled to the signal conditioning circuit including a processor having an associated memory and a field data to IP data conversion algorithm for generating the IP data from the conditioned field data, and a transmitter is for transmitting the IP data across an IP bus to at least one application connected to the IP bus.
Claims20
An Internet Protocol (IP)-enabled smart transducer, comprising:
- a sensor for generating field data regarding a physical quantity associated with processing equipment or a device in an industrial processing facility;
- a signal conditioning circuit coupled to an output of said sensor for at least one of amplifying and filtering said field data to provide conditioned field data;
- a communications interface coupled to said signal conditioning circuit, said communications interface including a processor having an associated memory, and a field data to IP data conversion algorithm for generating IP data from said conditioned field data, and
- a transmitter for transmitting said IP data across an IP bus to at least one application connected to said IP bus.
A method of communicating field data sensed in an industrial processing facility, comprising:
- providing an Internet Protocol (IP)-enabled smart transducer including a sensor coupled to processing equipment or a device in said industrial processing facility, a signal conditioning circuit coupled to an output of said sensor, a communications interface coupled to said signal conditioning circuit, said communications interface including a field data to IP data conversion algorithm, and a transmitter,
- said sensor generating said field data regarding a physical quantity associated with said processing equipment or said device;
- said signal conditioning circuit providing at least one of amplifying and filtering said field data to provide conditioned field data,
- said field data to IP data conversion algorithm generating IP data from said conditioned field data, and
- said transmitter transmitting said IP data across an IP bus to at least one application connected to said IP bus.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.