# US 7,523,015 B2 · Field device > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 7,523,015 B2 - Document ID: US7523015B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 11/661,343 - Filed: 2005-06-22 - Published: 2008-02-14 - Granted: 2009-04-21 - Earliest claimed: 2005-06-22 - Assignees: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft - Inventors: Andreas Jurisch; Volker Wenzel - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US7523015B2 ## CPC - G05B 19/4185: {characterised by the network communication} - G05B 2219/31242: Device priority levels on same bus, net, devices processes data of exactly lower priority device - Y02P 90/02: Total factory control, e.g. smart factories, flexible manufacturing systems [FMS] or integrated manufacturing systems [IMS] - G05B: CONTROL OR REGULATING SYSTEMS IN GENERAL; FUNCTIONAL ELEMENTS OF SUCH SYSTEMS; MONITORING OR TESTING ARRANGEMENTS FOR SUCH SYSTEMS OR ELEMENTS (systems for controlling or regulating non-electric variables G05D; systems for regulating electric or magnetic variables G05F; control devices or systems insofar as characterised by mechanical features only G05G) - Y02P: CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION TECHNOLOGIES IN THE PRODUCTION OR PROCESSING OF GOODS ## Abstract A field device for monitoring an operating state of an electrical engineering installation, in particular a transformer substation or a switching substation, having an evaluation device, which evaluates input signals, which are present on the input side and relate to the electrical engineering installation, on the basis of predetermined criteria and, on the output side, generates an output signal, which characterizes the respective evaluation result. An identification can be input to the evaluation device which specifies the hierarchical level to which the evaluation device is assigned. The evaluation device is designed such that, after a connection to a data transmission network, it automatically produces a data link with all other evaluation devices connected thereto or with all other evaluation devices connected thereto of a predetermined type which belong to a directly lower-order or a directly higher-order hierarchical level. The output signals of hierarchically lower-order evaluation devices are processed as input signals and dedicated output signals are passed on to hierarchically higher-order evaluation devices. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A field device for monitoring an operating state of an electrical engineering installation, the field device comprising: an evaluation device for evaluating input signals, present on an input side and relating to the electrical engineering installation, on a basis of predetermined criteria, and generating an output signal, on an output side, characterizing a respective evaluation result; said evaluation device being configured to receive an identification specifying a hierarchical level to which the evaluation device is assigned; said evaluation device being configured, upon being connected to a data transmission network, to automatically set up a data link with all other evaluation devices connected thereto or with all other evaluation devices connected thereto of a predetermined type which belong to a directly lower-order or a directly higher-order hierarchical level; and said evaluation device further-processing the output signals of hierarchically lower-order evaluation devices as input signals and passing output signals on to hierarchically higher-order evaluation devices. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The field device according to claim 1, configured for monitoring a transformer substation or a switching substation. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The field device according to claim 1, wherein said evaluation device is one of at least two evaluation devices disposed in one field device, and said at least two evaluation devices are connected to one another via a field-device-internal data transmission network. ### Claim 4 (depends on 3) The field device according to claim 3, wherein the at least two evaluation devices, in each case after activation of the field-device-internal data transmission network, automatically produce a data link with hierarchically directly lower-order and/or directly higher-order evaluation devices of the field device. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) The field device according to claim 1, which further comprises a connection for an external data transmission network for connection to other, external field devices. ### Claim 6 (depends on 5) The field device according to claim 5, wherein said evaluation device of a given said field device is configured to, after connection to the external data transmission network, automatically produce a data link with all other said evaluation devices connected thereto of other field devices or with all other evaluation devices connected thereto of a predetermined type of the other field devices if the respective said evaluation devices belong to a directly lower-order or a directly higher-order hierarchical level. ### Claim 7 (depends on 1) The field device according to claim 1, wherein: said evaluation device has a communication device, configured such that, after a connection to an internal or external data transmission network, said evaluation device automatically produces a data link with all other communication devices connected thereto of other evaluation devices or with all other communication devices connected thereto of other evaluation devices of a predetermined type if these communication devices belong to a directly lower-order or a directly higher-order hierarchical level; and said evaluation device has an analysis device, connected to the communication device, and further-processing output signals of analysis devices of hierarchically lower-order evaluation devices as input signals and passing dedicated output signals on to analysis devices of hierarchically higher-order evaluation devices by way of the assigned communication device. ### Claim 8 (depends on 7) The field device according to claim 7, wherein said analysis device includes a trigger filter and a case indication filter connected on an output side of said trigger filter and generating the output signals of said evaluation device, and wherein: said case indication filter is activated only when said trigger filter has responded; and said evaluation device passes dedicated output signals on to hierarchically higher-order evaluation devices only when said case indication filter has been activated. ### Claim 9 (depends on 1) The field device according to claim 1, wherein said evaluation device includes a trigger filter and a case indication filter connected on an output side of said trigger filter and generating the output signals of said evaluation device, and wherein: said case indication filter is activated only when said trigger filter has responded; and said evaluation device passes dedicated output signals on to hierarchically higher-order evaluation devices only when said case indication filter has been activated. ### Claim 10 (depends on 9) The field device according to claim 9, wherein at least one of said trigger filter and said case indication filter is supplemented in dynamic fashion. ### Claim 11 (depends on 1) The field device according to claim 1, wherein said evaluation device is configured, during the further-processing of the input signals of hierarchically lower-order evaluation devices, to compress information such that the output signals have a higher information density than the input signals. ### Claim 12 (depends on 11) The field device according to claim 11, wherein information compression takes place by omitting information components of the input signals that do not have any significance or have a subordinate significance for the characterization of the operating state of the electrical engineering installation. ### Claim 13 (depends on 1) The field device according to claim 1, wherein said evaluation device is configured for data links in accordance with the standard IEC61850. ### Claim 14 (depends on 13) The field device according to claim 13, wherein said evaluation device is configured to use instantaneous states stored in the object directory of the IEC61850 standard as input signals. ### Claim 15 (depends on 14) The field device according to claim 14, wherein said evaluation device is configured to compare the instantaneous states with state masks that are stored in the field device in a manner which is specific to the field devices or independent of the field devices. ### Claim 16 (depends on 1) The field device according to claim 1, wherein the evaluation device is configured to evaluate output signals of a hierarchically lower-order evaluation device with respect to an assignment of the lower-order evaluation device in terms of circuitry within the electrical engineering installation. ### Claim 17 (depends on 16) The field device according to claim 16, wherein said evaluation device is configured to use installation topology data, which are stored in accordance with the IEC61850 standard, of the electrical engineering installation for the assignment of the lower-order evaluation device in terms of circuitry. ### Claim 18 (depends on 1) An electrical engineering installation, comprising at least two field devices according to claim 1 connectible to one another through a data transmission network, wherein, after connection to the data transmission network, said field devices automatically produce a data link with all other field devices connected thereto belonging to a directly lower-order or a directly higher-order hierarchical level and further-process output signals of hierarchically lower-order field devices as input signals and pass dedicated output signals on to hierarchically higher-order field devices.