Patent ID: 9720406
Date: 2017-08-01
CPC Classifications: G01N,G05B

Claim:
1. A measuring system, comprising: a control unit, the control unit having a display apparatus and an input system; at least one sensor module, each sensor module having a measuring transducer and an electronics module, the electronics module having a data memory in which sensor-specific data are stored, the sensor-specific data comprising at least a sensor identification; and at least one interface module, wherein: each sensor module is connected to the control unit via its corresponding interface module, the connection being a measurement channel, each interface module includes signal processing and communication electronics embodied to convert received signals from the at least one sensor module into signals processable by the control unit, to output these signals to the control unit, to convert received signals from the control unit into signals processable by the at least one sensor module, and to output these signals to the at least one sensor module, the control unit is embodied to execute an operating program for the at least one sensor module, the operating program is configured to enable a user to specify attributes of a calibration procedure and to store a plurality of calibration procedures for a sensor module or for a group of sensor modules, the operating program is further configured to read out sensor-specific data from the data memory of the at least one sensor module and, based on the sensor identification, to identify more than one stored calibration procedure for the at least one sensor module, to present to the user a selection menu when more than one stored calibration procedure is identified for the at least one sensor module, to enable the user to select one of the stored calibration procedures in the selection menu, to guide the user through a sequence of steps for performing the selected calibration procedure associated with the at least one sensor module, and to operate the at least one sensor module for performing the calibration procedure, the operating program is further configured to operate the measurement channels in parallel, and the operating program is multiply instantiable and each instance of the operating program is embodied for servicing one of said plurality of sensor modules, so that the plurality of sensor modules can be serviced simultaneously.