Apparatus for servicing a field device from a remote terminal

US9276996B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Endress+Hauser Process Solutions AG · CH

Inventors

• Immanuel Vetter · Baden-Baden, DE
• Vincent De Groot · La Valette-du-Var, FR
• Jorg Hahniche · Bad Krozingen, DE
• Dennis Juillet · La Valette-du-Var, FR
• Martin Lohmann · Gerlingen, DE
• Gunter Jahl · Gerlingen, DE
• Thomas Hartmann · Altdorf, DE
• Stefan Robl · Hünxe, DE
• Holger Eberhard · Stuttgart, DE
• Florian Fetz · Stuttgart, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 22, 2010
• Grant date: Mar 1, 2016
• Expiry date: Oct 17, 2030

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G05B2219/34444
• WIPO field: Digital communication
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

An apparatus for servicing a field device from a remote terminal, wherein the field device has an onsite display/servicing capability and is connected to a fieldbus of process automation technology. The remote terminal and the field device communicate with one another via at least one defined transmission protocol. A web server is integrated in the field device, in a Plant Access Point or in the remote terminal; the web server provides all requested device information, which is the so called firmware, of the field device in the form of dynamically produced contents to the remote terminal. A communication driver specific to the applied transmission protocol and a browser are integrated in the remote terminal. The communication driver emulates the protocol of the onsite display/servicing capability of the field device on the remote terminal and the dynamically produced contents are displayed on a display of the remote terminal via the web browser, so that the onsite display/servicing capability at the field device and the display/servicing capability at the remote terminal are identical.