A system and a method for industrial communication, employing an adaptive repeater supporting communication between at least two communicating devices using one of two or more predetermined communication protocols at a time instant, are provided. The adaptive repeater includes a communication direction module and a protocol adapter module operably coupled to one another. The communication direction module detects a direction of communication between the communicating devices using physical layer parameters of the communication protocols, and establishes communication there-between, using a sampling clock. The protocol adapter module adapts the communication direction module to the communication protocol in use, by generating the sampling clock.

A method and apparatus for managing a field device on a network can involve detecting, at a processing device, a connection of the field device in an industrial process control and automation system, receiving data, from the field device, including payload information related to the field device in the industrial process control and automation system, determining, at the processing device, whether the field device uses a specific protocol based on the data, and responsive to determining that the field device uses the specific protocol, generating, at the processing device, a soft modem instance. The method and apparatus can also involve termination of soft modem instance if the field device becomes disconnected. The method and apparatus can also involve demodulating and extracting, using the soft modem instance, the payload information from the data.

A system and method for facilitating communication between a control server and robotic devices are provided. An integration engine of the system identifies protocol schemes and message schemes that are supported by the control server and robotic devices. When the protocol schemes and message schemes of the control server and the robotic devices are same, the integration engine facilitates transmission and reception of instructions between the control server and the robotic devices through identified communication interfaces. When the protocol schemes and message schemes of the control server and the robotic devices are different, the integration engine translates the protocol schemes and message schemes that are received from one of the control server and the robotic devices to facilitate communication between the control server and the robotic devices through identified communication interfaces.

Process control systems for operating process plants are disclosed herein. The process control systems include control modules that are decoupled from the I/O architecture of the process plants using signal objects or generic shadow blocks. This decoupling is effected by using the signal objects or generic shadow blocks to manage at least part of the communication between the control modules and the field devices. Signal objects may convert between protocols used by control modules and field devices, thus decoupling the control modules from the I/O architecture. Generic shadow blocks may be automatically configured to mimic the operation of field devices within a controller executing the control modules, thus partially decoupling the control modules from the I/O architecture by using the shadow blocks to manage communication between the control modules and the field devices.

There is provided in the present disclosure a method for management of an Internet of things, including: receiving first sensing data from a first sensing device, and converting the first sensing data that confirms to a first type of data transmission protocol into first sensing data that confirms to a third type of data transmission protocol; receiving second sensing data from a second sensing device, and converting the second sensing data that conforms to a second type of data transmission protocol into second sensing data that conforms to a third type of data transmission protocol, wherein the second type of data transmission protocol is different from the first type of data transmission protocol; and generating display data of the predetermined environment model including an updated first sub-model and/or an updated second sub-model, based on the first sensing data, the second sensing data and the predetermined environment model.

Provided is a process, including: receiving, via the network interface, from a remote user device, a command to change a state of the fluid-handling device to a target state; translating the received command into a translated command operative to cause a local controller of the fluid-handling device to drive the fluid-handling equipment to the target state, the local controller being responsive to the command and feedback from the fluid-handling device indicative of whether the fluid-handling device is in the target state; and sending the translated command to the local controller

A field device provided with a first communication unit for communicating over a communication network, a second communication unit for communicating via infrared with an external device, a converter for converting a message transmitted by the external device and received by the second communication unit into data that can be transmitted over the communication network, and a first controller for controlling the first communication unit and transmitting the data converted by the converter to the communication network.

There is provided in the present disclosure a method for management of an Internet of things, including: receiving first sensing data from a first sensing device, and converting the first sensing data that confirms to a first type of data transmission protocol into first sensing data that confirms to a third type of data transmission protocol; receiving second sensing data from a second sensing device, and converting the second sensing data that conforms to a second type of data transmission protocol into second sensing data that conforms to a third type of data transmission protocol, wherein the second type of data transmission protocol is different from the first type of data transmission protocol; and generating display data of the predetermined environment model including an updated first sub-model and/or an updated second sub-model, based on the first sensing data, the second sensing data and the predetermined environment model.

Provided is an interface apparatus including an interface unit configured to receive, from an AI processing unit configured to execute at least either processing of generating a model for determining a state of a facility by machine learning or processing of determining the state of the facility using the model, a first command using a protocol of a common form that is not dependent on a cloud platform configured to manage the facility, and a cloud communication unit configured to convert the first command into a second command using a protocol of a first form dependent on a first cloud platform and transmit the second command to the first cloud platform.

Provided is a process, including: receiving, via the network interface, from a remote user device, a command to change a state of the fluid-handling device to a target state; translating the received command into a translated command operative to cause a local controller of the fluid-handling device to drive the fluid-handling equipment to the target state, the local controller being responsive to the command and feedback from the fluid-handling device indicative of whether the fluid-handling device is in the target state; and sending the translated command to the local controller.