MOBILE PROGRAMMABLE CONTROL DEVICE
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Abstract
Mobile programmable control device which functionally combines within itself the traditional tasks of a programmable logic controller (PLC) and an active RFID transponder (tag), or, as the case may be, which integrates a PLC and an active RFID transponder in hardware and software terms. The application program for the control device, i.e. including PLC and RFID tag, can be produced using a programming environment conforming to IEC 61131. For that purpose the microcontroller of the RFID tag requires a corresponding runtime environment. The application programs in the control device can thus be executed cyclically and in synchronism with the PLC. By virtue of its small and compact design the control device can be physically attached to mobile objects of a technological process for the purpose of the latter'"'"'s automation, control or tracking/documentation. Mobile objects also represent process objects in the technological process both physically and in information technology terms.
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29 Claims
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15. A mobile programmable control device which functionally combines within itself the traditional tasks of a programmable logic controller and an RFID transponder, the mobile programmable control device comprising:
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a voltage supply; a data input and/or output interface; an application program loaded from a programming device or an engineering system and containing instructions which when executed processes functions of the programmable logic controller and processes functionality of the RFID transponder; a processor, an operating system; a runtime system; and an RFID transponder that receives and transmits radio signals, the RFID transponder is operatively connected to the processor, the operating system and the runtime system in order to execute the application program.
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20. A mobile programmable control device for controlling a technological process, the control device, comprising:
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a programmable logic controller; and an RFID transponder with an integrated microcontroller; and a common application program executing cyclically and having instructions for the programmable logic controller and the integrated microcontroller of the RFID transponder, wherein the programmable logic controller and the RFID transponder operatively interact thereby controlling the technological process; whereby the mobile programmable control device functionally combines within itself the traditional tasks of a programmable logic controller and an RFID transponder. - View Dependent Claims (21, 22, 23, 24)
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25. A system comprising a mobile control device as claimed 20, comprising a sensor that determines when the control device is located on an object.
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26. A programming device for a mobile programmable control device functionally that combines within itself the traditional tasks of a programmable logic controller and an RFID transponder, the programming device comprising:
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a processor; user commands for an application program to be executed the control device; a display device that displays an edited application program and process data of individual or interconnected control devices; and programming software executing on the processor and which converts the user commands into the application program such that the application program simultaneously includes instructions for processing functions of the programmable logic controller and for processing functionality of a microprocessor of the RFID transponder. - View Dependent Claims (27, 28, 29)
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Specification