Patent ID: 9038150
Filing Date: 2015-05-19
Classification: G05B,H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A provisioning device comprising: a receiving unit that receives a white list from a user prior to provisioning data being transmitted to a plurality of field devices from the provisioning device, the white list containing unique information of at least a first field device and setting information such that the unique information and the setting information are correlated with each other; a storage unit that stores the white list acquired through the receiving unit; a device information acquiring unit that acquires the unique information from the at least first field device by wireless communication; an extracting unit that extracts, from the white list, the setting information that is correlated with the acquired unique information; a setting unit that sends the extracted setting information to the at least first field device by wireless communication; and a successive acquiring unit that acquires the unique information from each of the at least first field devices successively by controlling the device information acquiring unit to output request signals for acquiring the setting information and subsequently transmit to each of the at least first field devices until provisioning for all of the plurality of field devices recorded on the white list is completed, wherein the receiving unit includes a plurality of slots for electrically connecting with an external storage medium that stores the white list.