Patent ID: 7634322

Claim:
A method of configuring a plurality of wireless field devices for later use in a process control plant, each of said plurality of wireless field devices accessible by a wireless medium, said method comprising: placing a host device in a range of communication of said plurality of wireless field devices, but outside of said process control plant; discovering in said host, the presence of said plurality of wireless field devices by communicating with said plurality of wireless field devices; displaying a list of wireless field devices whose presence is discovered; enabling a user to select a first wireless field device contained in said displayed list of wireless field devices; causing said first wireless field device to generate a human perceivable signal by communication between said host device and said first wireless field device in response to said user selecting said first wireless field device, whereby said user correlates a wireless field device selected from said list of wireless field devices with said first wireless field device based on the specific wireless field device generating said human perceivable signal; and issuing from said host device a plurality of configuration commands on said wireless medium, wherein said configuration commands are designed to configure said first wireless field device upon receipt by said first wireless field device.