Disclosed is a method for identifying and parsing an industrial control protocol based on an industrial gateway. The industrial gateway captures, through a serial port and a network port, messages sent from a host computer and a lower computer to the industrial gateway, extracts features representing different protocol types and protocol fields from the messages, and identifies and parses the messages based on protocol character features.

The described methods and systems enable process control devices to transmit and receive device variable values in a manner that enables the receiving device to verify the integrity of the received values on a variable-by-variable basis. To facilitate verification of integrity, any desired number of variables in a message may have a data integrity check in the message. For each received value that has a data integrity check, the receiving device can calculate its own data integrity check based on the received value and a seed (known to both the transmitting and receiving devices), which it can then compare to the received data integrity check to verify if the received value has been altered during communication.

The disclosure provides methods and systems for securing internet of thing systems. One method includes receiving, at a computing device, a token, wherein the token comprises a cryptographically signed list of rights that the computing device is authorized to request. The method also includes requesting, using the computing device, an action of a receiving device in an industrial location, wherein requesting the action comprises sending the token with the request to cause the receiving device to authenticate the user of the computing device and confirm the user is authorized to perform the action.

A method for integrating a field device into an automation system includes: configuring an application interface of a system controller of the automation system for communication with a data interface for the field device, the application interface being configured to send a request message (REQ message) in data packets, and to receive a response message (RES message) via a TCP connection, and during the configuring the data packets include an address field for the data interface of the field device specifying a first address referring to a server outside the automation system; and integrating the field device into the automation system by changing the address field in the data packets to a second address referring to the data interface of the field device within the automation system.

Disclosed is a field device adapter for HART communication with a field device. The field device adapter includes an adapter housing with an adapter chamber; arranged in the adapter chamber, an adapter electronics, which is adapted wirelessly to receive a second radio signal and by means of the second radio signal to control a circuit for shunting the communication resistor in such a manner that at least one communication resistor is selectively switchable in and out per radio, so that in a shunted condition a first radio signal received by the adapter electronics can be converted into a, preferably HART based, two conductor signal and modulated via the tapping point onto the loop current.

A process control input/output (I/O) device provides traditional I/O support with direct physical layers or interfaces associated with traditional process control communication protocols while at the same time supporting an advanced physical layer or other IP based physical layer and the communication protocols that run on top of them. In addition, the new I/O device is able to nest protocols inside of other protocols for use when protocols, such as safety protocols, require additional handshaking, confirmations, etc. Still further, the new I/O device includes hardware configurable capabilities that enable easy configuration of a process control system that uses multiple different physical layers, including those used by traditional process control protocols such as HART and FOUNDATION Fieldbus protocols, and more advanced physical layers, including those that are used by IP-based, Ethernet based, packet based and other types of advanced communication protocols.

An information translation device, information translation method, and an information translation system based on Modbus are provided. The client module of the information translation device receives an information model file including identity information, receives a sensor signal corresponding to first identity information and Modbus data including memory addresses of Modbus protocol, determines a first memory address corresponding to the sensor signal according to sensed values of the sensor signal and values corresponding to each of the memory addresses and builds a memory address mapping table including the first memory address and the first identity information, and receives a first value of the first memory address and searches the first identity information corresponding to the first memory address according to the memory address mapping table. The server module of the information translation device receives the first value and the first identity information and transmits to an OPC UA device.

Techniques for generating user interfaces (UIs) for field devices on a host device are described. A field device driver installed on the host device transmits a request for UI configuration to a field device. The field device includes a plurality of sets of UI parameters associated with configuration of the UI. The field device is configured to select a set of UI parameters from the plurality of sets of UI parameters based on application information provided to the field device. The field device driver receives the set of UI parameters from the field device in response to the request. Based on the set of UI parameters, the host device configures and generates the UI.

A Multi-Purpose Dynamic Simulation and run-time Control platform includes a virtual process environment coupled to a physical process environment, where components/nodes of the virtual and physical process environments cooperate to dynamically perform run-time process control of an industrial process plant and/or simulations thereof. Virtual components may include virtual run-time nodes and/or simulated nodes. The MPDSC includes an I/O Switch which delivers I/O data between virtual and/or physical nodes, e.g., by using publish/subscribe mechanisms, thereby virtualizing physical I/O process data delivery. Nodes serviced by the I/O Switch may include respective component behavior modules that are unaware as to whether or not they are being utilized on a virtual or physical node. Simulations may be performed in real-time and even in conjunction with run-time operations of the plant, and/or simulations may be manipulated as desired (speed, values, administration, etc.). The platform simultaneously supports simulation and run-time operations and interactions/intersections therebetween.

A current loop includes a receiver assembly and a transmitter assembly. The current loop also includes: a first conductor between the receiver assembly and the transmitter assembly; and a second conductor between the receiver assembly and the transmitter assembly to complete the current loop. The transmitter assembly includes: a Highway Addressable Remote Transducer (HART) modem; a component in communication with the HART modem via a partial set of Universal Asynchronous Receiver-Transmitter (UART) communication lines; and a break extension protocol controller coupled to or included with the HART modem and configured to support UART and non-UART communications between the HART modem and the component using the partial set of UART communication lines.