Patent ID: 8954187
Filing Date: 2015-02-10
Classification: G05B,G06Q

Abstract:
1. A system for monitoring and controlling a tangible process and monitoring and authorizing participants associated with the process, comprising: at least one communication network; a control device coupled to the at least one communications network and adapted to selectively interact with a first process controller associated with a first process, the first process including process control elements and process sensor elements, the selective interaction including the control device receiving data from the sensor elements and actuating the control elements; a first client device that is mobile, coupled to the at least one communications network, and having an application and a GUI enabling a first participant to selectively interact with the first process through the first control device; a first participant profile associated with the first participant, including a plurality of first limitations regarding the first participant's interaction with the first process; at least one of the application of the first mobile client device and the control device limiting the selective interaction of the first participant with the first process based on the plurality of first limitations; a second client device coupled to the at least one communications network, and having an application and a GUI enabling a second participant to selectively interact with the first process through the first control device; a second participant profile associated with the second participant, including a plurality of second limitations regarding the second participant's interaction with the first process and the first participant; and at least one of the application of the second client device and the control device limiting the selective interaction of the second participant with the first process and the first participant based on the plurality of first limitation and the plurality of second limitations; wherein the plurality of second limitations defines the second participant as a supervisor of the first participant's interaction with the first process thereby requiring the second participants consent for the first participant to selectively interact with the first process.