Patent ID: 9529348
Filing Date: 2016-12-27
CPC Classification: G05B,G06F,Y02P

Claim Text:
1. A network cloud based simulation system for simulating operation of a process control network as connected within a process plant, the simulation system comprising: a local supervisor module that is configured as a thin application locally at the process plant configured to collect: a remote simulation module that is configured as part of a network cloud system, the remote simulation module being communicatively coupled to the local supervisor module via the network cloud system, the remote simulation module comprising: wherein the local supervisor module is further configured to function as a single consolidated access point to bridge communications between the process control network and the network cloud system and to control when to send the first and second state variables to the update module via communications with the network cloud system, the local supervisor module controlling when to send the first and second state variables to the update module when the local supervisor module has buffered a threshold amount of data including the first and second state variables, and wherein the remote simulation module is further configured to store the first and second state variables-as part of the network cloud system by communicating exclusively with the local supervisor module.