US 11,971,708 B2
Method for providing context based artefact access
Maik Boche, Oberasbach (DE); Stefan Burger, Munich (DE); and Ankit Singh, Erlangen (DE)
Assigned to Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Munich (DE)
Appl. No. 17/252,262
Filed by SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT, Munich (DE)
PCT Filed Jun. 14, 2019, PCT No. PCT/EP2019/065640
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Dec. 14, 2020,
PCT Pub. No. WO2019/238907, PCT Pub. Date Dec. 19, 2019.
Claims priority of application No. 18177980 (EP), filed on Jun. 15, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0255612 A1, Aug. 19, 2021
Int. Cl. G05B 19/418 (2006.01); G06F 16/22 (2019.01)
CPC G05B 19/41885 (2013.01) [G06F 16/22 (2019.01); G05B 2219/35055 (2013.01)] 13 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for providing context based artefact access to tenants of a cloud computing system, the method comprising:
receiving a request to access an artefact deployed on the cloud computing system, wherein the request comprises a tenant identifier and an artefact identifier;
determining context data associated with the artefact based on the tenant identifier;
retrieving context data associated with the artefact from an artefact repository stored in a database of the cloud computing system;
providing access to the artefact based on the retrieved context data associated with the artefact on a device associated with the tenant, wherein a context delivery service is provided by the cloud computing system, wherein context data is linked by the context delivery service to artefacts of assets of at least one industrial facility represented by a structured asset data model of the respective industrial facility stored in the database of the cloud computing system, the structured asset data model of the respective industrial facility reflecting a hierarchical structure and topology of the respective industrial facility, and wherein the artefacts of the assets comprise cloud applications, digital twin data models, or firmware used for commission, monitoring, controlling, maintaining, or any combination thereof of the respective assets of the respective industrial facility;
connecting user devices via a network to a cloud interface of the cloud computing system;
uploading context data from the user device to the cloud computing system linked automatically by the context delivery service of the cloud computing system to corresponding entities of the structured asset data model stored in the database of the cloud computing system; and
downloading context data of entities of the structured asset data model stored in the database of the cloud computing system to the user device selected by the context delivery service in response to a received query.