Control and Communication System Including an Engineering Unit
AssigneeSiemens Aktiengesellschaft
InventorsAndreas Drebinger, Jochen Zingraf
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Abstract
A control and communication system including a number of automation units which are adapted to process signals in function plans within the automation unit and which are connected in the same level to a common communication bus for providing a peer-to-peer communication between the automation units, further includes an engineering unit being connected to the communication bus and being adapted to provide functions allowing at least one automation unit to exchange signals to a function plan which is attributed to another automation unit.
Claims21
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A control and communication system, comprising:
- a plurality of automation units each a adapted to process signals in corresponding function plans within the automation unit are connected in the same level to a common communication bus for providing a peer-to-peer communication between the automation units;
- and
- an engineering unit connected to the communication bus and adapted to provide functions allowing at least one automation unit to exchange signals to a function plan processed in another automation unit,
- wherein the engineering unit provides a list of signals to be received by the other automation unit when the at least one automation unit intends to exchange signals to a function plan processed in the other automation unit.
A control and communication system, comprising:
- a plurality of automation units that
- each process signals in corresponding function plans, and
- transmit the processed signals within the automation unit via first signal connectors including information about the signal connections to be provided for the corresponding signals, and which are connected in the same level to a common communication bus for providing a peer-to peer communication between the automation units, and
- an engineering unit connected to the communication bus that represents second signal connections overlapping automation units in the same way as the first signal connectors.
An engineering unit for a control and communication system, comprising:
- a common communication bus;
- and
- a plurality of automation units that
- process signals in corresponding function plans within the automation unit and
- are connected in the same level to the common communication bus that provides a peer-to-peer communication between the automation units, wherein the engineering unit is connected to the communication bus and provides a list of those signals received by a receiving automation unit when at least one sending automation unit intends to exchange signals to a function plan processed in the receiving automation unit.
A method of an automated peer-to-peer communication in a control and communication system, comprising:
- adapting a plurality of automation units to process signals in corresponding function plans within the automation unit;
- connecting the plurality of automation units in the same level to a common communication bus for providing a peer-to-peer communication between the automation units;
- and
- allowing at least one sending automation unit to exchange signals to a function plan processed in a receiving automation unit in the same way as the signals exchanged within the at least one sending automation unit by providing a list of signals received by the receiving automation unit when the at least one sending automation unit intends to exchange signals to a function plan processed in the receiving automation unit
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.