Smart node for a distributed mesh network

A smart node for a distributed mesh network, each node allowing two-way communication with other nodes or a central platform and each node comprising a computer hardware architecture and a software stack, using an object-oriented language, wherein the execution of said software stack on the computer hardware architecture implements a set of functionalities comprising at least the following functionalities:

• creating and managing, for itself or the other nodes of the mesh, objects adapted to industrial processes so as to control any type of process, the set of objects defined for the whole mesh and known to each of the nodes being referred to as a “object dictionary”;
• storing and managing at least one object by each node for maintaining the current status of the object and using a stored list of neighborhoods of the nodes to which it itself is connected, for informing each neighboring node of the possible change of status of the object;
• associating, with the communication module of each node, an identifier specific to the node and a neighborhood identifier, for making each node isofunctional and capable of receiving an execution order from a program of another node of the mesh;