Patent ID: 8768525
Filing Date: 2014-07-01
Classification: G05B

Abstract:
1. A medium-voltage or high-voltage switchgear comprising: at least one switching device, each switching device including a respective data and/or control interface; a data and/or control line connected to each data and/or control interface to enable each switching device to be triggered by an electronic control center connected to the data and/or control line; and at least one protocol converter comprised in the at least one switching device, the at least one protocol converter being configured to: detect data and/or signals received via the data and/or control line, determine an electronic communication protocol of the detected data and/or signals, modify automatically an operating protocol of the at least one switching device according to the determined electronic communication protocol of the data and/or signals received via the data and/or control line such that the at least one switching device is configured to be controlled using the data and/or signals received via the data and/or control line, and download a driver for the determined electronic communication protocol to modify the operating protocol of the at least one switching device, when the driver for the determined electronic communication protocol is not present in the at least one protocol converter, wherein: the at least one protocol converter comprises a protocol converter corresponding to each one of the at least one switching device, respectively, and each protocol converter is comprised in a respective one of the at least one switching device, respectively; the data and/or control interface is configured to be triggered with interrogation and accommodate remote maintenance; the at least one protocol converter is configured to determine the electronic communication protocol of the data and/or signals by automatically obtaining information about the electronic communication protocol via the data and/or control line; the at least one protocol converter is configured to modify automatically the operating protocol of the at least one switch device based on the obtained information about the electronic communication protocol; the at least one protocol converter is configured to automatically obtain the information about the electronic communication protocol by automatically searching for a driver for the electronic communication protocol; and the at least one protocol converter is configured to automatically obtain the information about the electronic communication protocol by automatically searching for the driver for the electronic communication protocol via an HTTP client.