Automation system with edge computing
AssigneeQuest Automated Services, LLC
InventorsHanz Da Silva, Edward Martell
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Abstract
An automation system employing multiple automated devices can establish and utilize two-way communication independent of a network controller by generating a unique network address with respective local circuitry. The local circuitry can be incorporated into a device or physically installed on-site in the form of an attachment, which allows automated devices to be upgraded and supplemented without altering the programming of a network controller.
Claims20
An apparatus comprising an automated device connected to a network computing device on a single site, the automated device comprising an internal computing circuitry connected to an external computing circuitry resident in a dongle physically attached to the automated device on the single site, the external computing circuity configured to generate a unique automation network address from unique factory information collected from the automated device independent of the network computing device and internal computing circuitry.
A method comprising:
- connecting an external computing circuitry to a first automated device and a network computing device, the first automated device comprising an internal computing circuitry, the external computing circuitry, first automated device, and network computing device each positioned on a single site;
- collecting at least one unique factory information from the first automated device with the external computing circuitry independent of the internal computing circuitry;
- generating a unique automation system network address from the at least one unique factory information with the external computing circuitry independent of the network computing device;
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- employing the unique automation system network address to conduct at least one automation task with the first automated device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.