System for Data Transmission Between a Machine and/or Installation and a Service Unit

• US 20080207267A1
• Filed: 08/11/2006
• Published: 08/28/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 09/19/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Siemens AG
• Original Assignee: Siemens AG
• Inventors: Gose, Horst
• Application Number:
  US12/067,394
• Publication Number:
  US 20080207267A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/557
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/52 specially adapted for the location of the user terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 24/02 Arrangements for optimising operational condition
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information

Abstract

The invention relates to a machine and/or an installation (6) and to a service unit, with the machine and/or the installation (6) having a control device (1) and a mobile radio unit (4), with the control device (1) being connected to a mobile radio unit (4) for transmission of data, with the mobile radio unit (4) being designed in such a manner that it can be dialled from a service unit (9) using a telephone number allocated to it, and the data can be transmitted via a mobile radio system (8) to the service unit (9). The invention allows worldwide transmission of data of a machine and/or installation (6).

Claims

1-22. -22. (canceled)

23. A machine comprising:

a mobile radio unit having an assigned telephone number and configured to be accessed by a service unit via a dial-up connection;

a control device connected to the mobile radio unit for transmitting data, said data being transmitted to the service unit via a mobile radio system supported by terrestrial stations, wherein the mobile radio system is configured to determine a local position of the machine.

24. The machine of claim 23, wherein the machine comprises at least one of a machine tool, a production machine and a machine configured as a robot.

25. The machine of claim 23, wherein the service unit has an assigned telephone number and is configured to be dialed by the mobile radio unit via the assigned telephone number.

26. The machine of claim 23, wherein the data include trace data, production data, usage data, software data, system data, identification data or data of a hardware component of the machine, or a combination thereof.

27. The machine of claim 23, wherein the data include data of a hardware component of the machine, wherein the hardware component is identified by an RFID chip and the data of the hardware component of the machine are determined from the RFID chip.

28. The machine of claim 23, wherein the mobile radio unit is implemented as a cell phone or a cell phone module.

29. The machine of claim 23, wherein the control device is connected to the mobile radio unit for data transmission via a universal serial bus.

30. The machine of claim 23, wherein the data are transmitted to the service unit in encrypted form.

31. A service unit comprising:

a communication unit configured to dial a mobile radio unit of a machine, said mobile radio unit having an assigned telephone number; and

a computing device connected to the communication unit for transmitting data, wherein the data are transmitted to the service unit from the machine via a mobile radio system supported by terrestrial stations, wherein the mobile radio system is configured to determine a local position of the machine, with the determined position being indicated to the service unit.

32. The service unit of claim 31, wherein the service unit has an assigned telephone number and is configured to be dialed by the mobile radio unit via the assigned telephone number.

33. The service unit of claim 31, wherein the communication unit is implemented as a cell phone or a cell phone module.

34. The service unit of claim 31, wherein the computing device is connected to the communication unit for data transmission via a universal serial bus.

35. The service unit of claim 31, wherein the computing device is implemented as a laptop.

36. The service unit of claim 31, wherein the data are transmitted to the service unit in encrypted form.