FIELD-BASED ASSET MANAGEMENT DEVICE AND ARCHITECTURE

摘要

A field mountable interface module (120, 302) is provided. The intelligent interface module includes at least one data connection port configured to couple to a data communication network (118, 122, 314) as well as at least one process communication connection port (124, 126, 128, 130) configured to couple to a field device bus (132, 134, 307A, 307B, 307C, 307D) . The intelligent interface module (120, 302) also includes a controller (320) and memory (324) coupled to the controller (320) . The controller (320) is configured to provide a higher order function with respect to one or more field devices and/or field device buses. Higher order functions include calibration support, complex device support, diagnostic support, distributed control system support, and virtual field device functions.