The present invention relates to a building management system based on identifiable marks that are arranged on terminal devices of a building and have a one-to-one correspondence with the terminal devices' own codes, the building management system comprising a user terminal, and the user terminal storing a database comprising codes of the terminal devices and comprising a scanning device for identifying and determining the identifiable marks, wherein an actual or relative location of the user terminal in the building can be determined by identifying and determining at least two identifiable marks. Moreover, the present invention further relates to an implementation method for the building management system based on identifiable marks. The building management system based on identifiable marks according to the present invention favors building management and the design, installation, debugging, management, and maintenance of terminal devices.

The invention relates to a method for generating and providing a mobile application to be loaded in a mobile device, wherein the mobile application executable on the mobile device is designed for the configuration, maintenance, and/or diagnosis of data and/or functions of a data processing device which can be coupled to the mobile device via a communication link, such as a programmable controller, drive, actuator, or sensor, wherein the mobile application is hosted in the data processing device and is loaded from the data processing device into the mobile device after the communication link is established, wherein content and/or functions of the application data describing the mobile application are dynamically generated or updated by means of a generation logic implemented in the data processing device on the basis of current data of a configuration and/or a runtime environment of the hosting data processing device, and wherein the generation logic is designed to record data of a configuration and/or runtime environment of further data processing devices coupled to the hosting data processing device via a network. To simplify the configuration, maintenance and diagnosis of data processing devices, it is proposed that a generation logic is implemented in each of the data processing devices, which is designed to generate a progressive web application providing the mobile application, that the data processing device connected to the mobile device via the communication link takes over the function of a master device, that changes of the system and/or configuration data of the data processing devices connected via the network are recorded via a data communication by means of the generation logic, so that the progressive web application of the master device is automatically updated, and that the mobile application is generated or updated on the basis of the data of the master device and the recorded data of the connected data processing devices.

According to an aspect, there is provided method for analyzing movement. Initially, information on one or more desired movement properties for a moving element of a mechanical system powered by an electrical machine which is controlled by a drive is maintained in a memory of a wireless sensing device. The wireless sensing device including one or more sensors is detachably fixed to the moving element of the mechanical system. The one or more sensors include one or more kinematic sensors. The wireless sensing device acquire results of a plurality of measurements performed by the wireless sensing device while the moving element is in motion. During the acquiring, the wireless sensing device compares results of the plurality of measurements with the one or more desired movement properties and communicates with the drive to adjust one or more drive parameters based on the comparing.

A system for controlling a portable tool with autonomous energy source, implementing at least one geo-positioning beacon external to the tool and capable of communicating with the portable tool. The system includes the following elements carried by the portable tool: a receiver, in or on the portable tool, for receiving control information delivered by the at least one beacon; and a processing unit, which determines the presence of the portable tool within or outside at least one pre-determined space, from the control information, communicates with a controller capable of managing the behavior of the tool as a function of the presence of the portable tool within or outside the pre-determined space or spaces and at least one pre-determined production rule.

Methods, apparatus, and articles of manufacture are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a field device including a network bridge, the network bridge to convert first data received at a first Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) radio of the network bridge, over a BLE network, from a second BLE radio of a remote device, and formatted according to a BLE communication protocol, into second data formatted according to an industrial communication protocol.

Systems and methods for enabling an augmented reality device to easily collect, analyze, transmit, and act on wireless information transmitted from various instruments on hydrocarbon production and pipeline skids. The augmented reality device preferentially presents and records available data streams from the various instruments on the hydrocarbon production and pipeline skids in an augmented reality user interface. The augmented reality user interface preferentially presents such data streams as readings from the various instruments in an easy-to-read, color-coded display, wherein the color coding relates to various in-tolerance and out-of-tolerance ranges related to each of the various instruments.

An operating system for a container handling machine, including an operating device for the container handling machine having a screen and a data transmitter for transmitting information and at least one separate additional screen having a data receiver for receiving information, with the operating device designed for selecting the information and the additional screen designed for displaying the selected information.

An intrinsically-safe handheld field maintenance tool includes a controller, a process communication module, and a display. The process communication module is configured to communicate with a field device using a process communication protocol. The display is coupled to the controller. A user interface module is also coupled to the controller and is configured to receive user input. The controller is configured to detect a user input help request and provide a video output on the display in response to the user input help request.

Described herein are several embodiments relating to irrigation controllers. In many implementations, the irrigation controllers includes a housing; a control unit within the housing and comprising a first microcontroller configured to execute stored irrigation programs, wherein the control unit includes an interface connector port; a driver circuitry within the housing configured to actuate irrigation valves based on control signals received from the first microcontroller; and a removable plug-in device removably coupled to the interface connector port, the removable plug-in device comprising a second microcontroller configured to send and receive data communications to and from the first microcontroller, such that the first microcontroller and the second microcontroller function together during use of the irrigation controller, wherein the removable plug-in device does not include any driver circuitry configured to actuate any irrigation valves based on any control signals received from the first microcontroller.

A control system for mechanical equipment is provided with: a manual operation mechanism provided with a minimum required number of operation switches and a mechanical equipment identification signal transmission unit for transmitting a mechanical equipment identification signal that identifies mechanical equipment; an operation assistance terminal in which the mechanical equipment identification signal received from the transmission unit is used as a basis to display a manual operation assistance screen including a manually operated device selection section and a control content display section that displays control content assigned to the operation switches of the manual operation mechanism for a selected manually operated device; and a control device that connects the control unit of an identified control target device and the operation switches of the manual operation mechanism by receiving a control target device switching signal identified by operation of the manually operated device selection section.