Bus station with integrated bus monitor function
AssigneeVEGA Grieshaber KG
InventorsThomas Gros, Fridolin Faist
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Abstract
Described is a bus station (e.g., a sensor, an actuator, a gateway) which performs a primary device function and a secondary function (e.g., a bus monitor function). To perform the secondary function, the bus station is equipped with a bus monitor arrangement which allows the bus station to access, to detect and to further process telegram traffic carried on the bus system. Also described is a network equipped with a plurality of such bus stations and a method for carrying out such monitoring with the aid of the bus stations.
Claims27
A bus station having a primary function such as a sensor function and that may be coupled to a bus system, comprising:
- at least one bus interface for communication of said bus station with said bus system, and
- a bus monitor means integrated with said bus station and coupled to said bus interface, said bus monitor means giving said bus station a secondary function, wherein said bus monitor means is adapted for at least one of the following activities:
- monitoring of the communication of said bus station with said bus system via said bus interface, and monitoring of the internal communication within said bus station.
A network having at least one bus system and at least one bus station having a primary function, such as a sensor function, and which may be coupled to a bus system,
- wherein said bus station comprises at least one bus interface for communication of said bus station with said bus system, and a bus monitor means;
- wherein said bus monitor means is integrated with said bus station and coupled to said bus interface, and giving said bus station a secondary function, wherein said bus monitor means is adapted for monitoring of the communication of said bus station with said bus system via said bus interface,
- wherein said network is monitored by means of said bus monitor means integrated with said bus station.
A method for carrying out monitoring processes of a bus system, comprising:
- coupling a bus station to said bus system, wherein said bus station has a primary function such as a sensor function, and comprising at least one bus interface for communication of said bus station with said bus system, and a bus monitor means;
- wherein said bus monitor means is integrated with said bus station and coupled to said bus interface, wherein said bus monitor means gives a secondary function to said bus station in the form of said monitoring,
- monitoring the communication of said bus station with said bus system via said bus interface by means of said bus monitor means.
A method for carrying out monitoring processes of a bus system, comprising:
- coupling a bus station to said bus system, wherein said bus station has a primary function such as a sensor function, and comprising at least one bus interface for communication of said bus station with said bus system, and a bus monitor means;
- wherein said bus monitor means is integrated with said bus station and coupled to said bus interface, wherein said bus monitor means gives a secondary function to said bus station in the form of said monitoring,
- monitoring the internal communication of said bus station by means of said bus monitor means.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.