Patent ID: 8611250

Claim:
A system within a process plant comprising: a mesh network comprising a plurality of input/output data points, wherein the mesh network is adapted to generate mesh network data from an input/output data point within the mesh network; a process control interface, wherein the process control interface comprises a common interface for entities within a process control system which is unable to access the input/output data points within the mesh network; and a mesh server communicatively coupled to the mesh network and to the process control interface, wherein the mesh server is adapted to map mesh network data read from the mesh network between the input/output data point and a data point placeholder within a process control system, wherein the data point placeholder provides a reference within the process control system for the mesh network data from the input/output data point within the mesh network, and wherein the mesh server is further adapted to write the mapped mesh network data to the process control system via the process control interface.