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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 19, 2013
Filed:
Nov. 06, 2009
Gottfried Rieger, Fürth, DE;
Ulrich Sinn, Erlangen, DE;
Gottfried Rieger, Fürth, DE;
Ulrich Sinn, Erlangen, DE;
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, München, DE;
Abstract
An HMI system with a mobile control and monitoring device for automation components of a technical system is provided. The HMI system includes means for a contactless data transmission between the mobile control and monitoring device and the automation components, a manual device for triggering or blocking security relevant operations of the technical system and means for locating the mobile control and monitoring device. Evaluation means are provided for managing an active operational area which activate the automation components for security-relevant operations of the technical system via the mobile control and monitoring device solely when the manual device is released and the locating means detect that the mobile control and monitoring device is located inside the active operational area. Is he manual device placed directly on the housing of the technical system, an operator has to approach such that he/she enters the active operational area in a secure manner.