US 11,881,965 B2
Gateway module and module arrangement
Michael Hoffmeister, Esslingen (DE); Thomas Berndorfer, Vienna (AT); Achim Ziegele, Baltmannweiler (DE); Olaf Westrik, Solms (DE); Sven Haugstetter, Leonberg (DE); Thomas Heubach, Weinstadt (DE); and Matthias Prinzen, Tübingen (DE)
Assigned to Festo SE & Co. KG, Esslingen (DE)
Appl. No. 16/606,474
Filed by Festo SE & Co. KG, Esslingen (DE)
PCT Filed Apr. 17, 2018, PCT No. PCT/EP2018/059750
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Oct. 18, 2019,
PCT Pub. No. WO2018/192911, PCT Pub. Date Oct. 25, 2018.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2017 206 769.1 (DE), filed on Apr. 21, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2023/0101035 A1, Mar. 30, 2023
Int. Cl. H04W 4/00 (2018.01); H04L 12/66 (2006.01); H05K 5/00 (2006.01)
CPC H04L 12/66 (2013.01) [H05K 5/0017 (2013.01)] 28 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A gateway module comprising:
a module housing;
an operating device arranged on the module housing, which operating device can be put, by user actuation, into a plurality of visually distinguishable operating device states;
a first communication interface for communication with field level devices;
a second communication interface for communication with an external server; and
a control unit configured to receive field data from the field level devices via the first communication interface and to provide the field data to the external server via the second communication interface, wherein the control unit is further configured to provide, depending on which operating device state the operating device is in, a manipulation function that serves to change the operation of the gateway module and/or the field level devices by external access via the first and/or the second communication interface, wherein the control unit is configured to provide the manipulation function in a first operating state and is configured not to provide the manipulation function in a second operating device state different from the first operating device state, wherein the gateway module is in operation in both these operating device states,
wherein the operating device states include a module manipulation state, and the control unit is configured to provide a module manipulation function in response to the module manipulation state, with which module manipulation function it is possible to configure to which external server the control unit provides the field data, and/or with which module manipulation function it is possible to configure from which field level devices the field data is received.