US 12,332,323 B2
Determining diagnostics information based on non-real-time data
Mika Kuukasjärvi, Jyväskylä (FI); Lasse Lipsanen, Helsinki (FI); and Olli-Petteri Karjalainen, Kuopio (FI)
Assigned to ABB Schweiz AG, Baden (CH)
Filed by ABB Schweiz AG, Baden (CH)
Filed on Feb. 14, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/650,903.
Claims priority of application No. 21158378 (EP), filed on Feb. 22, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0268858 A1, Aug. 25, 2022
Int. Cl. G01R 31/66 (2020.01)
CPC G01R 31/66 (2020.01) 15 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An apparatus comprising at least one processor, and at least one memory including computer program code, wherein the at least one memory and the computer program code are configured, with the at least one processor, to cause the apparatus to:
establish a plug-and-play connection between the apparatus and a process field network via a free switch port or a single connection point in the process field network;
obtain, via the free switch port or the single connection point, non-real-time data from a port data record header for a plurality of devices comprised in the process field network, wherein the non-real-time data comprises at least one of: port-related configuration data, port-related status data, and/or port-related statistics data for the plurality of devices; and
determine diagnostics information for at least a part of the process field network based at least partly on the non-real-time data, wherein the port data record header comprises a Profinet data record PDPortStatistic.