摘要 |
In a method of managing operations in an outdoor worksite through exchanges of data between items of apparatus operating on the site, the operations are initiated from a work-plan, and assigned to said items of apparatus organized in at least one level of sub-class with respect to the level of the work plan. Said exchanges of data are effected over a communications network operative on the worksite, each item of apparatus being allocated to a specific communicating entity through which it can access the network. It further comprises providing each communicating entity with an address conforming to a standardized protocol, especially the internet IP protocol, which allows direct exchanges over the network substantially seamlessly between addressee and addressor communicating entities, independently of their respective levels of sub-class. The address attributed to a communicating entity prefereably reflects is level/sub-level.
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