Data arrangement for an apparatus connectable to a communication network, and process for generating the data arrangement

• US 5,712,980 A
• Filed: 06/06/1995
• Issued: 01/27/1998
• Est. Priority Date: 08/04/1994
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Siemens Schweiz AG (Siemens AG)
• Original Assignee: Landis & GYR Technology Innovation AG (Landis+Gyr Group AG)
• Inventors: Moertlseder, Alfred, Brun, Gerhard, Beeler, Heinz
• Primary Examiner(s): SHAH, ALPESH
• Application Number:
  US08/467,102
• Time in Patent Office: 966 Days
• Field of Search: 395/200.01, 395/200.03, 395/200.09, 395/200.15, 395/600, 395/650, 395/700, 395/800, 395/100, 395/118, 395/133, 364/130, 364/134
• US Class Current: 709/245
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 19/4185 characterised by the network communication
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 2219/31146 Bati bus, for home habitation building automation
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 2219/31206 Exchange of parameters, data, programs between two station, station and central or host or remote
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 2219/32157 Create a new object by combining existing objects
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 2219/32158 Object groups, for object replication, naming, messaging and retrieving
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 2219/35504 Multilingual communication, messages in different languages
• CPC Class Codes: Y02P 90/02 Total factory control, e.g. smart factories, flexible manufacturing systems [FMS] or integrated manufacturing systems [IMS]
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99945 Object-oriented database structure processing
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99948 Application of database or data structure, e.g. distributed, multimedia, or image

Abstract

A data arrangement for an apparatus connectable to a communication network comprises data points (6.1..6.n) arranged in an apparatus and also a characterization of the apparatus. In a data point 6.k, with an index k of 1 to n, dynamic process information is storable. With apparatus connected, the data points (6.1..6.n) are accessible over the communication network for a station connected to the communication network for the reading and/or changing, in which also a single data point (6.k) is accessible. The characterization is a static description of objects of the apparatus in which a single data point (6.k) or also a group of data points (6.k) are objects of the apparatus. The data arrangement creates the precondition that in the operation of the apparatus an access is feasible to a data point (6.k) with a minimum of data traffic on the data network. The available characterization makes possible, further, a data-controlled realization of a user program.

Claims

1. A data arrangement for an apparatus connectable to a communication network, comprising:

a plurality of data points (6.1..6.n) arranged in the apparatus for storing dynamic process information, said plurality of data points being accessible for reading and/or changing by a station connected to the communication network;

one (6.k) of said plurality of data points (6.1. . . 6.n) being an object of the apparatus; and

a static characterization included in said station and having static descriptive data of said object, said static characterization being a logically correlated unit, and being accessible for reading by a processor of said station; and

wherein a group (6.i.6.j) of said plurality of data points of the apparatus accessible over the communication network are further grouped into a new object by the static characterization; and

wherein said static characterization further comprises;

first descriptive data for establishing an address of said object and said new object;

second descriptive data for determining a data type of said object and said new object; and

third descriptive data for establishing a designation of said object and said new object.

2. A data arrangement according to claim 1, characterized in that said static characterization further comprises:

fourth descriptive data for determining a value range of said object and said new object; and

fifth descriptive data for determining a standard value of said object and said new object.

3. A data arrangement according to claim 2, characterized in that said static characterization also comprises sixth descriptive data for establishing choosable access rights to said object and said new object.

4. A data arrangement according to claim 3, characterized in that said static characterization also comprises seventh descriptive data for establishing operations supported by the apparatus on said object and said new object.

5. A data arrangement according to claim 4, characterized in that said static characterization also comprises eighth descriptive data for marking said object and said new object as necessary for configuration of a certain execution manner of the apparatus.

6. A data arrangement according to claim 5, further comprising, a units catalog including physical mass units and representation formats of process magnitudes used in the communication network, said physical mass units and said representation formats being referenceable by means of points for the unification and simplification of the characterization.

7. A data arrangement according to claim 6, further comprising a text catalog including texts drafted in a certain language, said text catalog presenting said texts to person/machine interface connected to the communication network, and said texts being referenceable by means of points.

8. A data arrangement according to claim 1, wherein said static characterization also comprises sixth descriptive data for establishing choosable access rights to said object and said new object.

9. A data arrangement according to claim 8, wherein said static characterization also comprises seventh descriptive data for establishing operations supported by the apparatus on said object and said new object.

10. A data arrangement according to claim 9, wherein said static characterization also comprises eighth descriptive data for marking said object and said new object as necessary for configuration of a certain execution manner of the apparatus.

11. A data arrangement according to claim 10, further comprising, a units catalog including physical mass units and representation formats of process magnitudes used in the communication network, said physical mass units and said representation formats being referenceable by means of points for the unification and simplification of the characterization.

12. A data arrangement according to claim 11, further comprising a text catalog including texts drafted in a certain language, said text catalog presenting said texts to person/machine interface connected to the communication network, and said texts being referenceable by means of points.

13. A data arrangement according to claim 1, further comprising, a units catalog including physical mass units and representation formats of process magnitudes used in the communication network, said physical mass units and said representation formats being referenceable by means of points for the unification and simplification of the characterization.

14. A data arrangement according to claim 13, further comprising a text catalog including texts drafted in a certain language, said text catalog presenting said texts to person/machine interface connected to the communication network, and said texts being referenceable by means of points.

15. A data arrangement according to claim 1, further comprising a text catalog including texts drafted in a certain language, said text catalog presenting said texts to person/machine interface connected to the communication network, and said texts being referenceable by means of points.