Patent ID: 8686886

Claim:
A field device controlling system, comprising: a field device; an input/output unit communicating with the field device through an analog communication route; and a device monitoring unit communicating with the field device through a digital communication route through the input/output unit; wherein the field device comprises: a DA converting device performing digital-analog (DA) conversion of a digital setting value for an analog output value to the analog communication route; and an outputting portion outputting, to the analog communication route, an analog signal in accordance with an analog value that has been DA converted; wherein the input/output unit comprises: a memory storing the digital setting value that is applied to the field device through the analog communication route after the DA conversion into the analog value; and an AD converting device performing analog-digital (AD) conversion of the analog signal inputted through the analog communication route from the field device; wherein the device monitoring unit comprises: a check tool obtaining, through respective digital communication routes, a combination of (1) the digital setting value in the field device and either one of (2) a digital value of the AD converting device in the input/output unit and (3) the digital setting value stored in the memory of the input/output unit, and checking a status of the communication through the analog communication route based on the values obtained, wherein the input/output unit receives the digital setting value, stored in the memory, from the device monitoring unit through the digital communication route; and wherein the check tool of the device monitoring unit checks the status of communication through the analog communication route and a status of communication through the digital communication route based on the (1) digital setting value and the (2) digital value.