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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 26, 2014
Filed:
Oct. 13, 2011
Robert Powell, Furlong, PA (US);
Robert Powell, Furlong, PA (US);
Honeywell International Inc., Morristown, NJ (US);
Abstract
A method includes identifying a location of a provisioning device at the provisioning device. The method also includes providing data from the provisioning device to a field device in an industrial control system in order to provision the field device. The method further includes communicating the identified location to the field device for storage. In addition, the method includes storing the identified location in association with information identifying the field device at the provisioning device. The location of the provisioning device could represent GPS coordinates of the provisioning device. Also, the data and the identified location can be provided to the field device through an out-of-band communication interface, such as a direct wired interface and an infrared interface.