Patent ID: 8204608

Claim:
A monitoring and control apparatus for controlling an external object to be monitored and controlled by performing specific control processing operation based on state information collected from the object to be monitored and controlled, said monitoring and control apparatus comprising: a real information input unit for receiving the state information which is a physical signal input from said object to be monitored and controlled and converting the state information into a real information label format which can be processed by software; an input separating operation unit for label-converting the state information converted into the real information label format into a separated information label format and outputting the state information thus converted; a control processing unit for performing said specific control processing operation based on the state information label-converted into the separated information label format output from said input separating operation unit and outputting control information in the separated information label format; an output separating operation unit for label-converting the control information fed from said control processing unit into the real information label format; a real information output unit for converting the control information label-converted into the real information label format into a physical signal and outputting the physical signal thus converted to said object to be monitored and controlled; a simulator unit for simulating said object to be monitored and controlled by using the control information in the separated information label format which is an output from said control processing unit as an input and outputting simulated state information in the separated information label format; and a switching unit for switching said monitoring and control apparatus between real operation for monitoring and controlling said object to be monitored and controlled and simulative operation for operating said simulator unit.