Software, systems, and methods for mobile visualization of industrial automation environments

摘要

Systems, methods, and software for operating a mobile device to control industrial automation equipment are provided herein. In a first example, a mobile device application comprising program instructions executable by a mobile device is provided. When executed by the mobile device, the program instructions direct the mobile device to obtain industrial device information corresponding to an industrial device within an automation environment, and display the industrial device information on a display of the mobile device.

主权项

1. A mobile application comprising program instructions stored on a non-transitory memory of the mobile device and executable by a processing system of the mobile device that, when executed by the processing system of the mobile device, direct the mobile device to:
retrieve and execute the program instructions from the non-transitory memory of the mobile device, wherein the mobile application was downloaded prior to execution from a mobile application store into the non-transitory memory of the mobile device; authenticate the mobile device as being within the vicinity of the industrial device by at least identifying a physical proximity of the mobile device with respect to the industrial device; establish a communication link with an industrial device within an automation environment, wherein the communication link comprises a direct connection between the industrial device and the mobile device; obtain industrial device information corresponding to the industrial device; process the industrial device information to generate a graphical view of the industrial device information; display the graphical view of the industrial device information on a display of the mobile device; identify a remaining power of a battery of the mobile device; grant change access to control operational adjustments to the industrial device when the physical proximity is less than a threshold distance if the remaining power is above a power threshold to successfully complete a change to the operational adjustments; and inhibit change access to control the operational adjustments to the industrial device if the remaining power of the battery falls below the power threshold.