Publication detail

Interoperable technologies for automation

FIEDLER, P. ZEZULKA, F.

Original Title

Interoperable technologies for automation

Type

conference paper

Language

English

Original Abstract

The demand for integration of all levels of plant control into a single system has been increasing during last years. However the plants have been built on heterogeneous communication technologies that use various approaches for representation of data. Heterogeneity of the plants is faced using combinations of various software and hardware gateways. The presented paper describes why the use of gateways is not a good solution in general, and presents a technology that can be the ultimate solution of interoperability issues in automation. The paper presents disadvantages of gateway based interoperability solutions in heterogeneous control environments and emphasizes possible interoperable solution. The proposed solution is based on emerging open technologies that promis to deliver interoperable services for exchange of all kinds of data among computer systems without the need to perform frustrating conversions between disparate protocols and incompatible data structures. Moreover the proposed interoperability solution will guarantee both interoperability in the field of process automation, and interoperability with future applications of ubiquitous computing too. Disadvantages of proposed solution compared to present communication technologies are mentioned as well.

Keywords

XML, automation, inetroperability

Authors

FIEDLER, P.; ZEZULKA, F.

RIV year

2003

Released

10. 12. 2003

Publisher

University of Maribor

Location

Maribor, Slovenia

ISBN

0-7803-7853-9

Book

IEEE ICIT 2003 Proceedings

Pages from

877

Pages to

880

Pages count

4

BibTex

@inproceedings{BUT8724,
  author="Petr {Fiedler} and František {Zezulka}",
  title="Interoperable technologies for automation",
  booktitle="IEEE ICIT 2003 Proceedings",
  year="2003",
  pages="4",
  publisher="University of Maribor",
  address="Maribor, Slovenia",
  isbn="0-7803-7853-9"
}