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Method for operating a sensor in a multisensor system, especially in a field device in the form of a measuring device for process automation technology, and sensor for performing the method

US9134151B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

Endress+Hauser Conducta Gesellschaft fuer Mess- und Regeltechnik mbH + Co. KG · DE

Inventors

Stefan Robl · Hünxe, DE
Thomas Al-Ber · Leinfelden, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Aug 17, 2010
Grant date	Sep 15, 2015
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Jun 15, 2032

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG05B2219/25428
WIPO fieldMeasurement
WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

A method for operating a sensor in a multisensor system, especially in a field device in the form of a measuring device for process automation technology, wherein data output from the sensor are evaluated by the measuring device connected with the sensor and the measuring device supplies the sensor with energy. In order reliably to limit production of lost heat in a measuring device to a certain value and, in spite of this, to be able to connect a number of sensors with different energy requirements to a measuring device, before a startup of the sensor, it is checked whether, with startup of the sensor, a maximum consumption of electrical energy of the measuring device would be exceeded.

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