Method and communication system for data communication

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9936050-B2
Application number	US-201514682166-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 9, 2015
Priority date	Apr 9, 2014
Publication date	Apr 3, 2018
Grant date	Apr 3, 2018

Abstract

A communication arrangement, a gate device and method for data communication between a mobile operating unit and a field device provides a certain ease in handling. The method involves a user program being loaded onto or activated on the mobile operating unit. Furthermore, data from the mobile operating unit is transmitted to a data communication device and from the data communication device to a gate device and from the gate device to a transmitting device of the field device and/or is transmitted in the opposite direction.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method for data communication between at least one mobile operating unit and at least one field device, comprising the steps of:
at least one of loading at least one user program onto the mobile operating unit and activating at least one user program on the mobile operating unit,
at least one of transmitting data from the mobile operating unit to a data communication device and transmitting data from the data communication device to the mobile operating unit,
at least one of transmitting data from the data communication device to a gate device and transmitting data from the gate device to the data communication device, and
at least one of transmitting data from the gate device to a transmitting device of the at least one field device and transmitting data from the transmitting device of the at least one field device to the gate device,
wherein the data is encoded by the mobile operation unit with a code determinable by only a field device for which the data is intended, the encoded data being transmitted by the gate device to the field device for which the data is intended.

2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein a first data protocol is used for the data communication between the mobile operating unit and the data communication device, and wherein a second data protocol is used for the data communication between the transmitting device of the field device and the gate device, and wherein the first data protocol and the second data protocol differ from one another.

3. The method according to claim 2 , wherein the mobile operating unit is a consumer-specific device and the field device is an industry-specific device.

4. The method according to claim 3 , wherein the device from the field of consumer electronics is at least one of a laptop, a tablet and a smartphone and wherein the device from the field of industry electronics is at least one of a measuring device, a control device and an actuator device.

5. The method according to claim 4 , wherein the first data protocol and the second protocol are different types of protocols.

6. The method according to claim 5 , wherein the first data protocol is at least one of WLAN, Ethernet, Hypertext Transfer Protocol (http) and low-power wireless connectivity technology protocols, and wherein the second protocol is at least one of foundation fieldbus (FF), Profibus DP or PA, serial communication protocol and IEEE 802.15.4-based high-level communication protocols.

Assignees

• Krohne Messtechnik Gmbh

Inventors

• Gerding Michael
• Dabrowski Markus
• Keimling Rene
• Hansen Christian
• Spiegel Christoph

Classifications

• H04L69/08 Primary

  Protocols for interworking; Protocol conversion · CPC title

• H04L67/12 Primary

  specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks · CPC title