Patent ID: 9535415
Date: 2017-01-03
CPC Classifications: G05B

Claim:
1. A mobile application comprising program instructions stored on a non-transitory memory of the mobile device and executable by a processing system of the mobile device that, when executed by the processing system of the mobile device, direct the mobile device to: retrieve and execute the program instructions from the non-transitory memory of the mobile device, wherein the mobile application was downloaded prior to execution from a mobile application store into the non-transitory memory of the mobile device; authenticate the mobile device as being within the vicinity of the industrial device by at least identifying a physical proximity of the mobile device with respect to the industrial device; establish a communication link with an industrial device within an automation environment, wherein the communication link comprises a direct connection between the industrial device and the mobile device; obtain industrial device information corresponding to the industrial device; process the industrial device information to generate a graphical view of the industrial device information; display the graphical view of the industrial device information on a display of the mobile device; identify a remaining power of a battery of the mobile device; grant change access to control operational adjustments to the industrial device when the physical proximity is less than a threshold distance if the remaining power is above a power threshold to successfully complete a change to the operational adjustments; and inhibit change access to control the operational adjustments to the industrial device if the remaining power of the battery falls below the power threshold.