Patent ID: 7159007
Filing Date: 2007-01-02
Classification: G05B,H04L

Abstract:
1. A communication system including: automation equipment having at least one processing unit configured to execute at least one automation program and at least one web service, said automation equipment including a building automation logic controller for a building, said automation program configured to provide an automation function, said web service configured to provide a remote access to the automation function and said automation function including a building automation function for the building; remote equipment configured to communicate with the automation equipment over an IP network; a computer application configured to execute on the remote equipment and to communicate with the at least one web service to provide a remote automation function to the remote equipment, said remote automation function including at least one of monitoring, display, control, configuration, and programming of the automation function provided by the automation program on the automation equipment using the remote access of the web service; and said remote automation function being based on at least one service description document configured to describe capabilities of the at least one web service using a WSDL (Web Services Description Language) language.