Generating configuration information for newly integrated field devices

US12160339B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• ABB Schweiz AG · CH

Inventors

• Dirk Wagener · Stadthagen, DE
• Marcus Heege · Kaisersesch, DE
• Christoph Welte · Neu-Ulm, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 12, 2023
• Grant date: Dec 3, 2024
• Expiry date: Jun 12, 2043

Classification

• Technology area (CPC H): Electricity
• CPC primary: H04L67/12
• WIPO field: Control
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A method for generating configuration information for a new field device includes obtaining driver information that allows communication with the new field device and comprises new parameter information that identifies a parameter in the context of the new field device, obtaining a list of one or more semantic identifiers, determine existing field device parameters with which the semantic identifier is already associated in the industrial plant, obtain existing parameter information, evaluate to which extent existing parameter information matches new parameter information with respect to a parameter of the new field device, and based on this evaluated extent, associate the semantic identifier with the parameter of the new field device as part of the sought configuration information for the new field device.