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US 12,587,439 B2Granted
Multi-cloud industrial controller
AssigneeWAGO Verwaltungsgesellschaft mbH
InventorDirk Volkening
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Abstract
An industrial controller including a controller for controlling one or multiple field bus(es) in an automation system, first pieces of configuration information for configuring a communication link to a first cloud platform, second pieces of configuration information for configuring a communication link to a second cloud platform, and to for transfer process data of the automation system to the first and the second cloud platform.
Claims10
An industrial controller comprising:
- a controller to control one or multiple field devices in an automation system;
- first pieces of configuration information for configuring a communication link from the controller to a first cloud platform;
- second pieces of configuration information for configuring a communication link from the controller to a second cloud platform;
- and
- an output for transferring process data of the automation system from the controller to the first and the second cloud platform,
- wherein the industrial controller is a programmable logic controller (PLC) and comprises firmware, and
- wherein the first and the second pieces of configuration information are stored in the firmware.
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A method for connecting an industrial controller to a first and a second cloud platform, the method comprising:
- configuring a communication link between the industrial controller and the first cloud platform;
- and
- configuring a communication link between the industrial controller and the second cloud platform,
- wherein the industrial controller is a programmable logic controller (PLC) and comprises firmware, and
- wherein first and the second pieces of configuration information for configuring the communication links are stored in the firmware.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.