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Industrial control system with web enabled I/O modules

  • US 8,028,099 B2
  • Filed: 09/28/2001
  • Issued: 09/27/2011
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/20/2001
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. An I/O module for use with an industrial control system having a programmable logic controller for executing an industrial control program and communicating over a control-network with the I/O module, the I/O module comprising:

  • an I/O interface communicating electrical signals between the I/O interface and the industrial process;

    an Internet interface communicating electrical signals between an embedded Web server and the Internet;

    a network interface communicating electrical signals between the I/O module and the programmable logic controller; and

    a processing unit connected to the I/O interface, the Internet interface and the network interface and executing a stored program to pass data both between the Internet and the I/O interface and between the network interface and the I/O interface;

    wherein both the network interface and the Internet interface include a media connection to common media of the control-network and wherein the Internet interface communicates with the Internet through the control-network and the network interface communicates with the programmable logic controller through the control-network;

    whereby Internet control of the industrial process may be had through the I/O module using the embedded Web server without intervention of the programmable logic controller,wherein the processing unit also executes the stored program to accept a write disable command from the programmable logic controller causing the stored program to controllably block data from passing between the Internet interface and the I/O interface.

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