US 11,927,942 B2
Automatic setup of digital twins for industrial controllers
Georg Muenzel, Waischenfeld (DE)
Assigned to SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT, Munich (DE)
Appl. No. 17/269,069
Filed by Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Munich (DE)
PCT Filed Aug. 23, 2018, PCT No. PCT/US2018/047733
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Feb. 17, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/040772, PCT Pub. Date Feb. 27, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2021/0208576 A1, Jul. 8, 2021
Int. Cl. G05B 19/418 (2006.01); G06K 19/06 (2006.01); H04L 9/40 (2022.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01)
CPC G05B 19/41885 (2013.01) [G06K 19/06037 (2013.01); H04L 63/0428 (2013.01); G05B 2219/33286 (2013.01)] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for implementing a digital twin representative of a physical component of an industrial system comprising:
associating a unique identifier with the physical component and the digital twin representative of the physical component;
placing the digital twin representative of the physical component on a distributed network;
connecting the physical component to the distributed network;
accessing, by the physical component, a uniform resource identifier corresponding to the unique identifier to the distributed network by the user;
retrieving the network address of the digital twin associated with the unique identifier and providing the network address to the physical component; and
establishing a secure communication connection between the physical component and the digital twin representative of the physical component via the distributed network.