Remote data visualization within an asset data system for a process plant
First Claim
1. A remote data viewing system for use in a process plant having a plurality of data source applications, each of which collects or generates entity data pertaining to one or more different entities within the process plant, the remote data viewing system comprising:
- a primary data collection platform adapted to collect the entity data pertaining to the one or more different entities within the process plant from the data source applications;
a database adapted to store the entity data pertaining to the one or more different entities within the process plant collected by the primary data collection platform;
a web server coupled to the primary data collection platform and adapted to provide remote access to the entity data stored in the database at one or more remote platforms; and
a display application stored on a computer readable memory and adapted to be executed on a processor within one of the one or more remote platforms to create a display for the entity data, the display including a navigational tree having a plurality of sections specifying different categories of entity data in the database and a display view, wherein the display application enables a user to select the different ones of the sections of the navigational tree to specify different entity data to be displayed and presents the entity data associated with a selected section of the navigational tree in a predetermined viewing format.
1 Assignment
0 Petitions
Accused Products
Abstract
A process plant data collection and viewing system uses a common navigational tree structure and one or more common display formats to enable a user to remotely view, in a similar and consistent manner, information obtained from different applications or data sources within a process plant at any desired level of integration, even though the actual data from the multiple different data applications or data sources may be collected and organized in different manners by different data sources using a primary data visualization platform. Because predetermined common visualization screens provide predetermined formats of information at different levels of data integration, a user can easily remotely navigate through the data stored in the database or collected by the different data sources at higher or lower levels of data integration without having to directly access that data from the data sources themselves and without needing direct access to the primary data collection and visualization platform.
266 Citations
44 Claims
-
1. A remote data viewing system for use in a process plant having a plurality of data source applications, each of which collects or generates entity data pertaining to one or more different entities within the process plant, the remote data viewing system comprising:
-
a primary data collection platform adapted to collect the entity data pertaining to the one or more different entities within the process plant from the data source applications;
a database adapted to store the entity data pertaining to the one or more different entities within the process plant collected by the primary data collection platform;
a web server coupled to the primary data collection platform and adapted to provide remote access to the entity data stored in the database at one or more remote platforms; and
a display application stored on a computer readable memory and adapted to be executed on a processor within one of the one or more remote platforms to create a display for the entity data, the display including a navigational tree having a plurality of sections specifying different categories of entity data in the database and a display view, wherein the display application enables a user to select the different ones of the sections of the navigational tree to specify different entity data to be displayed and presents the entity data associated with a selected section of the navigational tree in a predetermined viewing format. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23)
-
-
24. A method of viewing entity data generated in a process plant having a plurality of data source applications, each of which collects or generates entity data pertaining to one or more different entities within the process plant, the method comprising:
-
collecting the entity data pertaining to the one or more entities within the process plant at a primary data collection platform;
storing the collected entity data in a database associated with the primary data collection platform;
accessing the database from a remote site geographically separated from the primary data collection platform to obtain at least a portion of the entity data stored in the database;
displaying a navigational tree at the remote site, the navigational tree including a plurality of sections specifying categories of the entity data in the database; and
displaying a display view at the remote site in conjunction with the navigational tree, wherein the display view presents entity data in a predetermined viewing format in response to a selection of one of the sections of the navigational tree. - View Dependent Claims (25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44)
-
Specification