Method, electronic device, and computer program product for monitoring field device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11948052-B2
Application number	US-202016934646-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 21, 2020
Priority date	Jun 30, 2020
Publication date	Apr 2, 2024
Grant date	Apr 2, 2024

Abstract

The present disclosure relates to a method, an electronic device, and a computer program product for monitoring a field device. For example, a method for monitoring a field device is provided. The method may include receiving facility information data associated with locations of a group of field devices and a sensing data set acquired by a sensing apparatus arranged near the group of field devices. The method may further include determining, according to a determination that sensing data associated with at least one field device in the group of field devices in the sensing data set is abnormal, a target location of the at least one field device based on the facility information data. In addition, the method may further include generating navigation information from a source location where a user is located to the target location.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method for monitoring a field device, comprising:
receiving facility information data associated with locations of a group of field devices and a sensing data set acquired by a sensing apparatus arranged near the group of field devices;
determining, according to a determination that sensing data associated with at least one field device in the group of field devices in the sensing data set is abnormal, a target location of the at least one field device based on the facility information data; and
generating navigation information from a source location where a user is located to the target location;
wherein the sensing data comprises a hardware image of the at least one field device, and the method further comprises:
determining, based on the hardware image, hardware data corresponding to an abnormal image portion; and
applying the hardware data to an abnormality solving model to generate suggestion information for solving the abnormality.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein
the abnormality solving model is obtained by training with reference hardware data as an input and reference suggestion information as an output.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the sensing data comprises environmental sensing data of the at least one field device, and the method further comprises:
generating alarm information according to a determination that the environmental sensing data is abnormal.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein generating the navigation information comprises:
applying the facility information data, the source location, and the target location to a navigation model to generate the navigation information, the navigation model being obtained by training with reference facility information data, a reference source location, and a reference target location as inputs and reference navigation information as an output.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the sensing apparatus comprises at least one of the following:
a temperature sensor configured to acquire temperature information of the at least one field device as environmental sensing data of the at least one field device;
a smoke sensor configured to acquire smoke information of the at least one field device as the environmental sensing data; and
a camera configured to acquire a hardware image of the at least one field device.

6. A method for monitoring a field device, comprising:
receiving facility information data associated with locations of a group of field devices and a sensing data set acquired by a sensing apparatus arranged near the group of field devices; and
determining, according to a determination that sensing data associated with at least one field device in the group of field devices in the sensing data set is abnormal, a target location of the at least one field device based on the facility information data;
wherein the facility information data comprises three-dimensional data of a building information model, and the method further comprises:
performing data fusion on the three-dimensional data and the sensing data set to generate a three-dimensional virtual scenario; and
providing the three-dimensional virtual scenario to a user by using a display device, for at least displaying the at least one field device.

7. The method of claim 6 , wherein the display device comprises augmented reality glasses.

8. An electronic device, comprising:
at least one processing unit; and
at least one memory, the at least one memory being coupled to the at least one processing unit and storing instructions configured to be executed by the at least one processing unit, wherein when executed by the at least one processing unit, the instructions cause the electronic device to perform actions comprising:
receiving facility information data associated with locations of a group of field devices and a sensing data set acquired by a sensing apparatus arranged near the group of field devices;
determining, according to a determination that sensing data associated with at least one field device in the group of field devices in the sensing data set is abnormal, a target location of the at least one field device based on the facility information data; and
generating navigation information from a source location where a user is located to the target location;
wherein the sensing data comprises a hardware image of the at least one field device, and the actions further comprise:
determining, based on the hardware image, hardware data corresponding to an abnormal image portion; and
applying the hardware data to an abnormality solving model to generate suggestion information for solving the abnormality.

9. The electronic device of claim 8 , wherein
the abnormality solving model is obtained by training with reference hardware data as an input and reference suggestion information as an output.

10. The electronic device of claim 8 , wherein the sensing data comprises environmental sensing data of the at least one field device, and the actions further comprise:
generating alarm information according to a determination that the environmental sensing data is abnormal.

11. The electronic device of claim 8 , wherein generating the navigation information comprises:
applying the facility information data, the source location, and the target location to a navigation model to generate the navigation information, the navigation model being obtained by training with reference facility information data, a reference source location, and a reference target location as inputs and reference navigation information as an output.

12. The electronic device of claim 8 , wherein the sensing apparatus comprises at least one of the following:
a temperature sensor configured to acquire temperature information of the at least one field device as environmental sensing data of the at least one field device;
a smoke sensor configured to acquire smoke information of the at least one field device as the environmental sensing data; and
a camera configured to acquire a hardware image of the at least one field device.

13. An electronic device, comprising:
at least one processing unit; and
at least one memory, the at least one memory being coupled to the at least one processing unit and storing instructions configured to be executed by the at least one processing unit, wherein when executed by the at least one processing unit, the instructions cause the electronic device to perform actions comprising:
receiving facility information data associated with locations of a group of field devices and a sensing data set acquired by a sensing apparatus arranged near the group of field devices; and
determining, according to a determination that sensing data associated with at least one field device in the group of field devices in the sensing data set is abnormal, a target location of the at least one field device based on the facility information data;
wherein the facility information data comprises three-dimensional data of a building information model, and the actions further comprise:
performing data fusion on the three-dimensional data and the sensing data set to generate a three-dimensional virtual scenario; and
providing the three-dimensional virtual scenario to a user by using a display device, for at least displaying the at least one field device.

14. The electronic device of claim 13 , wherein the display device comprises augmented reality glasses.

15. A computer program product being tangibly stored in a non-transitory computer storage medium and comprising machine-executable instructions, wherein when executed by a device, the machine-executable instru

Assignees

• Emc Ip Holding Co Llc

Inventors

• Sha Danqing
• Fernandez Orellana Pedro
• Jia Zhen
• Tang Xuwei

Classifications

• G06N20/00 Primary

  Machine learning · CPC title

• G06Q10/0631

  Resource planning, allocation, distributing or scheduling for enterprises or organisations · CPC title

• G05B2219/39449

  Pendant, pda displaying camera images overlayed with graphics, augmented reality · CPC title

• G01C21/20 Primary

  Instruments for performing navigational calculations (G01C21/24, G01C21/26 take precedence) · CPC title

• G05B19/0428 Primary

  Safety, monitoring (G05B19/0423 takes precedence) · CPC title