Patent ID: 9170579
Filing Date: 2015-10-27
Classification: G05B,Y02P

Abstract:
1. A method for monitoring and controlling a plurality of industrial energy devices, wherein the method is performed by a system having a server and an interface device coupled to the industrial energy devices, the method comprising: sending configuration data from the server to the interface device, wherein: reading the configuration data received at the interface device; dynamically configuring one or more ports on the interface device in accordance with the port definitions in order to enable the interface device to read output data from and write control data to the industrial energy devices coupled to the interface device; dynamically allocating memory on the interface device for the defined variables in the device definitions; periodically reading output data at each industrial energy device coupled to the interface module, wherein the output data is read from memory registers on the industrial energy device specified in the device definition for the industrial energy device; determining values for the defined variables in the configuration data using the read output data; monitoring the plurality of industrial energy devices on the server by receiving values from the interface device for one or more of the defined variables in the configuration data; and controlling one of the industrial energy devices by sending a write request to the interface device with a value for one of the defined variables in the device definition for the industrial energy device; and in response to receiving the write request at the interface device, retrieving the variable definition for the variable in the write request, identifying the memory register on the applicable industrial energy device referenced in the definition, and writing the value in the write request to said memory register on the applicable industrial energy device.