Patent ID: 9743398
Date: 2017-08-22
CPC Classifications: H04W

Claim:
1. A computer implemented method for providing a time slot allocation in a wireless communication schedule for monitoring and control of a control loop in an industrial process, said industrial process having at least one control task and a plurality of wirelessly enabled field devices; characterized by importing dependency information between a plurality of said field devices of at least one control loop from any of a computer aided design file, a process and instrumentation diagram in electronic file form, a process logic diagram in electronic file form, a process and instrumentation diagram in the form of an extended extensible markup language file, a process graphic, a controller configuration in a control system, and allocating time slots in said communication schedule to at least one of said field devices of the at least one control loop dependent at least on a dependency information between the plurality of said field devices wherein said dependency information indicates whether a control task requires as an input an output of one of said field devices or control loops.