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US7328078B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Invensys Systems, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Fred Sanford · Attleboro, US
• Robert Bather · Taunton, US
• Martin Culverhouse
• Walter Sikora · Attleboro, US
• Melanie Russell · Ann Arbor, US
• Peter Martin · Gilbert, US
• Robert Hasselbaum · Attleboro, US
• Russell Barr · Millis, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 8, 2003
• Grant date: Feb 5, 2008
• Expiry date: Oct 8, 2023

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y02P90/80
• WIPO field: Control
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

An apparatus for monitoring performance of an industrial process includes a service portal for collecting, transmitting and analyzing parameter data from process field devices that includes a network connection that connects to a process control system of the industrial process, a remote collector that collects parameter data from process field devices, a processor that identifies, sorts, and stores the collected parameter data and a communications module for transmitting the stored parameter data to a remote monitoring station for analysis.