US 12,301,409 B2
Field device configuration tool
Dirk Wagener, Stadthagen (DE); Christoph Welte, Neu-Ulm (DE); Christian Fahrenholz, Memmingen (DE); and Marcus Heege, Kaisersesch (DE)
Assigned to ABB Schweiz AG, Baden (CH)
Filed by ABB Schweiz AG, Baden (CH)
Filed on Jun. 22, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/353,847.
Claims priority of application No. 20 181 837 (EP), filed on Jun. 24, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2021/0406037 A1, Dec. 30, 2021
Int. Cl. H04L 41/08 (2022.01); G06F 3/0481 (2022.01); G06F 3/0484 (2022.01)
CPC H04L 41/08 (2013.01) [G06F 3/0481 (2013.01); G06F 3/0484 (2013.01)] 6 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A field device configuration tool, comprising:
a user interface;
a processing unit;
a memory; and
an output unit,
wherein the processing unit is configured to generate information for each parameter of a plurality of parameters of a field device as a generation, the field device comprising at least one OPCUA node with at least one embedded OPCUA server, the generation comprises utilization of at least one of an Electronic Device Description (EDD) for the field device and the at least one OPCUA node of the field device,
wherein the processing unit is configured to control the user interface to present information for the plurality of parameters of the field device on a display of the user interface, the information for the plurality of parameters being in a human understandable format,
wherein the user interface is configured to enable a user of the field device to input one semantic identification (ID) for each parameter of the plurality of parameters of the field device with respect to the information for the parameter of the field device presented on the display of the user interface,
wherein the processing unit is configured to map each semantic ID to each corresponding parameter for the field device as a mapping,
wherein the processing unit is configured to save the mapping between each semantic ID and each corresponding parameter in the memory as a saved mapping, and
wherein the output unit is configured to output parameter values based on the semantic ID for the corresponding parameter.