Patent ID: 8605602

Claim:
A field communication system configured to receive data from a field device through a communication network and to map the data onto a register to update the data, the field communication system comprising: a detection module configured to detect a state of communication with the field device through the communication network, the state of communication being indicative of whether the data received from the field device and mapped onto the register has been updated or not; and a writing module configured to write the state of communication detected by the detection module in the register as information added to the data, wherein self-diagnosis information of the field device is included in the data from the field device and is mapped onto the register, and wherein when the detection module detects that the state of communication with the field device through the network is indicative of the state of communication in which the data received from the field device and mapped onto the register has not been updated, the writing module is configured to rewrite the self-diagnosis information mapped onto the register to reflect a state indicating that the data mapped onto the register is unreliable.