Patent ID: 8026810
Filing Date: 2011-09-27
Classification: B60L,B60M,Y02T

Abstract:
1. An apparatus for controlling and monitoring an installation, wherein the installation is composed of a plurality of subsections sequentially disposed one behind another in a chain of subsections, each of the subsections, except for terminal subsections at the respective ends of the chain of subsections, is arranged between a forward subsection and a rearward subsection; the apparatus comprising: a plurality of monitoring units including a first monitoring unit and a second monitoring unit; each of the subsections having a first monitoring unit and a second monitoring unit connected thereto; said first monitoring unit also being connected to the forward subsection and the second monitoring unit also being connected to the rearward subsection; and at least some of said monitoring units of the subsections communicating with one another, with the subsections themselves, and/or with a superordinate control point.