Patent ID: 8880198
Filing Date: 2014-11-04
Classification: G05B,Y02P

Abstract:
1. A system for automatically monitoring and controlling an infrastructure or process, comprising: a plurality of remote clients installed along various portions of an industrial infrastructure or an infrastructure performing a process, each of said remote clients collecting data pertaining to the infrastructure or process; a plurality of server replicas in communication with said plurality of remote clients, receiving said collected data from said remote clients and processing said received data; and an electronic network across which the plurality of remote clients and the plurality of server replicas communicate, wherein said plurality of server replicas comprises a state machine replication system that is tolerant of a failure of one or more of said server replicas, and wherein in the state machine replication system, each of the plurality of server replicas receive identical incoming message events and timeouts and process the incoming message events and timeouts in an identical order.