Patent ID: 8452675
Filing Date: 2013-05-28
Classification: G05B,G06Q

Abstract:
1. An inventory control system for use in processing plant environment, the inventory control system comprising: a computer workstation; a database storing instrument specification data for one or more process control devices used for controlling a process performed in the process plant environment; a wireless gateway adapted to wirelessly communicate with wireless enabled process control devices in the process plant environment; a communication bus interconnecting the wireless gateway, the computer workstation, and the database; and an inventory control application executed by the computer workstation, the inventory control application adapted to interrogate a received process control device via the wireless gateway to receive device data from the received process control device identifying and describing the received process control device, access the database to retrieve instrument specification data for the received process control device, and compare the received device data to the retrieved instrument specification data to ensure that the received process control device corresponds to the instrument specification data.