METHOD FOR ENABLING PROMPT DIAGNOSIS OF A FIELD DEVICE CONNECTED TO A WIRELESS ADAPTER
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Abstract
A method, in the case of which it is monitored in a wireless adapter connected to a field device whether, in the context of communication with the field device, a status change of the field device is being reported. In case a status change has been reported, the wireless adapter queries for expanded status information of the field device. The expanded status information is transmitted event-controlled from the wireless adapter to a superordinated communication unit and provided through such to an evaluation tool, in case a comparison of the expanded status information with a status pattern adapted specifically for the field device shows that the relevant, expanded status information should be evaluated.
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30 Claims
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16. A method for operating a system having a field device, a wireless adapter in wired communication connection with the field device, and a superordinated communication unit, which is in wireless communication connection with the wireless adapter, comprising the steps of:
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monitoring in the wireless adapter whether, in the context of communication with the field device, a status change of the field device is being reported; event controlled querying of expanded status information of the field device by the wireless adapted, in case a status change has been reported; and event controlled transmitting of the expanded status information from the wireless adapter to the superordinated communication unit and providing this expanded status information through the superordinated communication unit to an evaluation tool only when comparison of the expanded status information with a status pattern adapted specifically for this field device shows that the relevant, expanded status information should be evaluated, wherein; the comparison is performed in a communication unit participated in the communication between the wireless adapter and the superordinated communication unit. - View Dependent Claims (17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29)
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30. A wireless adapter, to which one field device is connectable and brought into wired communication connection therewith, wherein wireless communication is performable by the wireless adapter and wherein an electronics of the wireless adapter is embodied in such a manner, that:
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in use, it can be monitored whether, in the context of communication with the connected field device a status change of the field device is being reported; in case a status change has been reported, expanded status information can be queried event-controlled from the connected field device; a comparison of the expanded status information with a status pattern adapted specifically for the connected field device and storable in the wireless adapter can be performed and therefrom determined whether the relevant, expanded status information should be evaluated; and the expanded status information is transmitted by the wireless adapter wirelessly to a communication unit in communication connection with the wireless adapter only when the comparison performed shows that the expanded status information should be evaluated.
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