Plant-monitoring autonomous control system

A plant-monitoring autonomous control system for controlling one or a plurality of control target apparatuses, the plant-monitoring autonomous control system comprising:

• a plurality of nodes, of different kinds, being connected to one another through a control network, wherein the plurality of nodes are different from the plurality of control target apparatuses;
• and
• a communication management device connected to the plurality of nodes via the control network, the communication management device being for sequentially transmitting to each of the nodes, in accordance with an order determined in advance, transmission instruction information which designates data to be transmitted by designating a transmission source node, a physical terminal of a plurality of physical terminals of the transmission source node, and a transmission destination node, wherein
• the plurality of nodes includes:
• at least one input node for receiving an input signal from the control target apparatus and transmitting the input signal to the control network,
• at least one calculation node having a calculation circuit and for transmitting, to the control network, a result obtained by performing calculation processing on data received from the input node, and
• at least one output node for outputting, to the control target apparatus, data received from the calculation node,
• wherein a node, of the plurality of nodes, designated as the transmission source node by the transmission instruction information transmits the data designated to be transmitted together with the transmission instruction information, to a node, of the plurality of nodes, designated as the transmission destination node.