Measuring device for evaluation of physical and/or chemical properties of gases, fluids and/or solid materials
AssigneeEndress + Hauser Conducta Gesellschaft für Mess- und Regeltechnik mbH + Co. KG
InventorsWolfgang Babel, Detlev Wittmer
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Abstract
A measuring device for the evaluation of the physical and/or chemical properties of gases, fluids and/or solid materials. The measuring device is equipped with an arithmetic-logic unit which is linked to a sensor at a technical facility. The arithmetic-logic unit and the sensor are linked to each other over a communications medium. The arithmetic-logic unit and equipment at the technical facility are linked by means of an additional communications medium.
Claims20
A measuring device to evaluate physical and/or chemical properties of gases, fluids and/or solid materials comprising:
- an arithmetic-logic unit and a sensor, the arithmetic-logic unit and the sensor connected to each other over a communications medium and the sensor adapted to send measurement data to the arithmetic-logic unit;
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- the arithmetic-logic unit and use equipment in a use installation connected to each other over another communications medium, wherein the arithmetic-logic unit is remote from the use installation and the sensor is at the use installation.
A method to evaluate physical and/or chemical properties of gases, fluids and/or solid materials comprising the steps of:
- transmitting measurement data from sensors to an arithmetic-logic unit over a communications medium, the sensors located at a use installation and the arithmetic-logic unit located remotely from the use installation;
- generating data packages by the arithmetic-logic unit from the measurement data;
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- transmitting data packages over an additional communications medium from the arithmetic-logic unit to use equipment at the use installation.
In a measuring device to evaluate at least one of a physical and chemical property of a material at an installation using a sensor, the material being at least one of a gas, a fluid and a solid, the improvement comprising:
- an arithmetic-logic unit located remote from the installation and receiving raw measurement data from the sensor through a first communications means, the arithmetic-logic unit operable to process the raw measurement data and send processed data to the installation.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.