Secure Provisioning of Devices in Industrial Automation Systems

    公开(公告)号:US20230125527A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-04-27

    申请号:US17974693

    申请日:2022-10-27

    Applicant: ABB Schweiz AG

    Abstract: A method for securely supplying data to be used in parameterizing a device for an industrial automation system includes a first party supplying a second party with a machine-readable standardized container for the exchange of device parameters in industrial automation systems, wherein the supplying comprises writing into the container an encrypted primary security credential to be used by the device for establishing trust with the industrial automation system. In another aspect, a method for securely obtaining data to be used in parameterizing a device for an industrial automation system includes obtaining, from a first party, by a second party, a machine-readable standardized container for the exchange of device parameters in industrial automation systems, the container comprising an encrypted primary security credential to be used by the device for establishing trust with the industrial automation system.

    SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ENABLING TSN-STREAM CONFIGURATION

    公开(公告)号:US20220070114A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-03-03

    申请号:US17411069

    申请日:2021-08-25

    Applicant: ABB Schweiz AG

    Abstract: A system for enabling Time-Sensitive Networking (TSN)-stream configuration of a TSN network includes: a gathering device for gathering resource utilization information from TSN switches of the TSN-stream configuration as gathered resource utilization information; and a tool device for providing a TSN stream path calculation based on the gathered resource utilization information and allocating stream paths and establishing channel multiplexing in the TSN network based on the gathered resource utilization information.

    Interface apparatus between TSN-devices and non-TSN-devices

    公开(公告)号:US11929936B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-03-12

    申请号:US17176195

    申请日:2021-02-16

    Applicant: ABB Schweiz AG

    CPC classification number: H04L47/6275 H04L27/2682

    Abstract: A method for transmitting a first data packet from a receiving input-buffer to a receiving output-buffer, the first data packet in the receiving input-buffer having a non-TSN format and the first data packet in the receiving output-buffer being TSN-compliant, includes the steps of: analysing the first data packet, which has been retrieved from a non-TSN device, in the receiving input-buffer; adding a first data packet time to the first data packet according to a Precision Time Protocol (PTP); adding a predefined first data packet priority level to the first data packet according to a Priority Code Point (PCP) of an 802.1Q tag; transmitting the first data packet to the receiving output-buffer; and sending the first data packet according to the first data packet priority level to a TSN-compliant device.

    Method for Providing a Controlling Frontend for an Operating Device

    公开(公告)号:US20230333540A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-10-19

    申请号:US18308802

    申请日:2023-04-28

    Applicant: ABB Schweiz AG

    CPC classification number: G05B19/4155 G05B2219/31368

    Abstract: A method for providing a controlling frontend for an operating device configured for operating a field device includes providing an operational frame, wherein the operational frame serves as a generic user interface and is based on a companion specification; reading a field device specification from a database, wherein the field device specification comprises a structured set of field device attributes, which are related to the operating elements; and generating, based on the field device specification and the operational frame, a structured set of display elements for the controlling frontend, wherein at least some of the display elements of the controlling frontend are connected to the operating elements of the field device.

    Method for automatic configuration of sematic-based projects in building automation systems

    公开(公告)号:US11038706B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-06-15

    申请号:US16293668

    申请日:2019-03-06

    Applicant: ABB Schweiz AG

    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for semantic-based planning, engineering, and commissioning a project in a building or home automation system, using multiple technologies/protocols of devices including sensors, actuators and control devices, the method being based on a semantic based model having an automatic configuration generation for specific technologies/protocols from a function-based device specification, the method including the following multiple transformation steps: calculating/creating a configuration for a specific protocol/technology using a mapping complex or structure of rules or processing instructions that takes into account the semantic-based model, technology models, heuristics, and/or technology constraints of the devices; generating an internal model of the building automation system with communication objects as an output of the automatic created configuration calculation; transforming the internal model, depending on a targeted technology/protocol, in order to create either application programming interface (API) calls or a format for a mandatory tool, and downloading the created configuration into the building automation devices.

    Vetting and/or Functional Validation of Software Components

    公开(公告)号:US20240193279A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-06-13

    申请号:US18533573

    申请日:2023-12-08

    Applicant: ABB Schweiz AG

    CPC classification number: G06F21/577 G06F2221/033

    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for providing vetting and/or functional validation of software components, comprising: providing a software component and software component data indicating the software component; writing the software component data in a distributed ledger; functional validating and/or vetting the software component and providing functional validation and/or vetting data of the software component; writing the functional validation and/or vetting data in the distributed ledger; providing the data written in the distributed ledger to a software component consumer.

    METHOD FOR AUTOMATIC CONFIGURATION OF SEMATIC-BASED PROJECTS IN BUILDING AUTOMATION SYSTEMS

    公开(公告)号:US20190280889A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-09-12

    申请号:US16293668

    申请日:2019-03-06

    Applicant: ABB Schweiz AG

    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for semantic-based planning, engineering, and commissioning a project in a building or home automation system, using multiple technologies/protocols of devices including sensors, actuators and control devices, the method being based on a semantic based model having an automatic configuration generation for specific technologies/protocols from a function-based device specification, the method including the following multiple transformation steps: calculating/creating a configuration for a specific protocol/technology using a mapping complex or structure of rules or processing instructions that takes into account the semantic-based model, technology models, heuristics, and/or technology constraints of the devices; generating an internal model of the building automation system with communication objects as an output of the automatic created configuration calculation; transforming the internal model, depending on a targeted technology/protocol, in order to create either application programming interface (API) calls or a format for a mandatory tool, and downloading the created configuration into the building automation devices.

    Immutable and Tamper-Resistant Event Data
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    发明公开

    公开(公告)号:US20240152124A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-05-09

    申请号:US18501646

    申请日:2023-11-03

    Applicant: ABB Schweiz AG

    CPC classification number: G05B19/4184 G05B19/41885

    Abstract: A method includes receiving data indicating an event from at least one industrial device; providing the received data indicating an event to nodes of a distributed ledger; in response, selecting at least one of the nodes of a distributed ledger and writing a transaction into the distributed ledger, wherein the writing of a transaction into the distributed ledger is authorized by the selected at least one of the nodes of the distributed ledger, wherein the transaction comprises transaction data, wherein the transaction data allows an accessing of event data; wherein the transaction data comprises a pointer pointing to original or pre-processed data existing in one or more industrial databases of the at least one industrial device; providing immutable and tamper-resistant event data, event reaction data, control data, or training data for training a machine learning or an artificial intelligence based industrial control system based on the transaction data.

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