Patent ID: 7430453
Filing Date: 2008-09-30
Classification: G05B

Abstract:
1. A system for remote replication of a local valve actuator mode selection functionality, the local valve actuator mode selection functionality having a plurality of local modes and a plurality of operatable modes, the system comprising: a plurality of sites, the plurality of the sites comprising a local site and at least one remote site, wherein a selector mechanism of each of the plurality of the sites is disposed to select between the plurality of the local modes and between the plurality of the operatable modes; the local site in communication with the at least one remote site and at least one electronic processor embodying mode selection logic; and a local mode selection logic embodied in the least one electronic processor wherein the local mode selection logic comprises a hierarchy, the hierarchy disposed to prioritize at least two of the plurality of the local modes selected at the plurality of the sites in a high priority to low priority order, independently of the site selecting the local mode, such that the at least one remote site can affect a selection of a valve actuator local mode.