US 10,915,081 B1Granted

Edge gateway system for secured, exposable process plant data delivery

AssigneeFisher-Rosemount Systems, Inc.

InventorsMark J. Nixon, Claudio Fayad, Robert G. Halgren, III, Gary K. Law, John M. Caldwell, Anthony Amaro, Jr., Peter Hartmann

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Abstract

An edge gateway system securely delivers and exposes data generated by and/or related to a process plant for consumption by external systems, and includes a field-facing component that stores interest lists indicating the particular data that is allowed to be exposed by the field-facing component. Each interest list is defined (e.g., manually and/or automatically) in accordance with an exposable data type system extracted from (in some cases, multiple different) configurations of the process plant, and may include multiple types of data (e.g., control, I/O, diagnostic, device, historical, etc.) that collectively represent a particular named entity of the plant. The field-facing component obtains the process plant-related data indicated by the interest lists, and provides the obtained field content data to an edge-facing component of the edge gateway system for exposure to external systems, for example, by streaming and/or publishing the obtained data to the edge-facing component.

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Dependent claims

An edge gateway system for securely delivering, from a process plant, data related to the process plant for consumption by one or more external systems, the edge gateway system comprising:

a field-facing component that is communicatively connected to one or more process plant networks of the process plant, the field-facing component including respective interfaces to the one or more process plant networks, one or more processors, and one or more non-transitory memories, and the one or more non-transitory memories storing:
one or more interest lists,
each interest list indicating respective data that is allowed to be exposed by the field-facing component to the one or more external systems for consumption,
the respective exposable data indicated by the each interest list corresponding to respective field data content generated by a respective one or more devices of the process plant while the process plant is operating to control an industrial process;
and
the exposable data indicated by the one or more interest lists defining the only data of an entirety of process plant data obtained by the field-facing component that is allowed to be exposed by the field-facing component to the one or more external systems for consumption;
and
computer-executable instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the field-facing component to:
send, to an edge-facing component of the edge gateway system, a collection of exposable data types for data that correspond to controlling an industrial process and that are allowed to be exposed to one or more external systems, the collection of exposable data types different than and determined based on one or more field data configurations of the process plant;
obtain the field data content corresponding to the exposable data indicated by the one or more interest lists;
transform the obtained field data content in accordance with the collection of exposable data types;
and
send the transformed, obtained, field data content to the edge-facing component, thereby making the exposable data indicated by the one or more interest lists available for consumption by the one or more external systems via the edge-facing component.

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A method for securely delivering, from a process plant via an edge gateway system, data related to the process plant for consumption by one or more external systems, the method comprising:

sending, by a field-facing component of the edge gateway system to an edge-facing component of the edge gateway system, a collection of exposable data types for data that correspond to controlling an industrial process and that are allowed to be exposed to one or more external systems, the collection of exposable data types different than and determined based on one or more field data configurations of the process plant;
obtaining, at the field-facing component, one or more interest lists and storing the one or more interest lists in one or more memories accessible to the field-facing component,
each interest list indicating respective data that is allowed to be exposed by the process plant to the one or more external systems for consumption,
the respective exposable data indicated by the each interest list corresponding to respective field data content generated by a respective one or more devices of the process plant while the process plant is operating to control an industrial process;
and
the exposable data indicated by the one or more interest lists defining the only data of an entirety of process plant data obtained by the field-facing component that is allowed to be exposed by the field-facing component to the one or more external systems for consumption;
obtaining, by the field-facing component, the field data content corresponding to the exposable data indicated by the one or more interest lists;
transforming the obtained field data content in accordance with the collection of exposable data types;
and
sending, by the field-facing component, the transformed, obtained field data content to the edge-facing component, thereby making the exposable data indicated by the one or more interest lists available for consumption by the one or more external systems via the edge gateway system.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.