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AssigneeKeba AG
InventorsDieter Graiger, Siegfried Richter
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The invention relates to a method of connecting a mobile, electronic control and/or monitoring unit (9) to at least one machine or at least one machine component in a group or a plurality of machines (2) or machine components to be controlled and/or monitored. During a connection or log-on procedure between the control and/or monitoring unit (9) and a co-operating distant point on the respective machine (2), a clear link or log-on connection is set up either by means of interfaces (14, 15) to the selected, wireless direction-finder of the co-operating distant point or alternatively by means of transmitters and/or receivers (16, 17) tuned to a restricted, localized functional or operating range (21). Once the connection has been acknowledged and established, the programmed control and/or monitoring of the machine (2) or the machine component is managed via another, standard data transmission means (22), for example a hard-wired network and/or via a wireless link between the control and/or monitoring unit (9) and the selected machine (2). Also proposed is a control and/or monitoring unit (9) for implementing this method.
A method of selectively connecting a portable electronic control and/or monitoring unit movable by a user to at least one machine or machine component selectable by the user from a plurality of machines or machine components for control and/or, monitoring by the user, wherein a clear link or log-on connection between the control and/or monitoring unit and a point on the selected machine or machine component is set up by means of interfaces for a selected wireless direction-finder of the point or by means of transmitters and/or receivers tuned to the transmission range or reception range, having a limited, localised operating range and, once the connection has been acknowledged and established, a planned control and/or monitoring of the selected machine or the machine component is managed via another, standard data transmission means, the connection being managed by the user by actively accepting/acknowledging the potential connection by means of an operating element on the control and/or monitoring unit.
A portable electronic control and/or monitoring unit movable by a user, comprising an input device with several operating elements and having at least one first interface to at least one control unit for one or more machines or machine components, second interface for a wireless connection system to a co-operating point in or on the machine or machine component to be controlled and/or monitored for enabling the user to establish a clear connection or link between the control and/or monitoring unit and the one or more machines or machine components selected by the user from a plurality of machines or machine components to be controlled and/or monitored, and an operating element on the input device for enabling the user to selectively establish and/or terminate an operative connection via the at least one first interface.
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