US 9,892,011 B2 · Apparatus and method for autodetection of HART devices over PROFIBUS

Abstract

A master device is configured to perform a method that includes receiving highway addressable remote transducer (HART) device data of a HART slave device connected to PROFIBUS RIO Slave. The method also includes identifying a device description (DD) file associated with the HART slave device using the HART device data that is collected automatically based on the PROFIBUS slave Profile index before even configuring the HART device in the system. The method further includes performing one or more device communication functions with the HART slave device to collect the data automatically.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A method comprising:

before a completion of a software configuration of one or more highway addressable remote transducer (HART) slave devices:
scanning the one or more HART slave devices connected to a PROFIBUS remote input/output (IO) slave device;
and
collecting HART device data about a specified HART slave device of the one or more HART slave devices in order to choose a device description (DD) file configuration from a controller;
identifying a DD file associated with the specified HART slave device using the HART device data;
and
performing one or more device communication functions with the specified HART slave device using the identified DD file.

4 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

14/927,205Filed 29 Oct 2015

Published

US 2017/0123952 A14 May 2017

Granted

13 Feb 2018

Term ends

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Classification13 codes

G06F 11/3027
Monitoring arrangements specially adapted to the computing system or computing system component being monitored: where the computing system…
G05B 19/4186
Characterised by the network communication: by protocol, e.g. MAP, TOP
G06F 11/3051
Monitoring: monitoring arrangements for monitoring the configuration of the computing system or of the computing system component, e.g. monitoring…
G06F 13/364
With centralised access control: using independent requests or grants, e.g. using separated request and grant lines

Apparatus and method for autodetection of HART devices over PROFIBUS

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Apparatus and method for autodetection of HART devices over PROFIBUS

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Abstract

Claims20