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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 22, 2016
Filed:
Oct. 14, 2013
Fisher-rosemount Systems, Inc., Round Rock, TX (US);
Alan R. Dewey, Plymouth, MN (US);
Joseph Citrano, III, Eden Prairie, MN (US);
Todd Mitchell Toepke, Eden Prairie, MN (US);
Alden C. Russell, III, Minnetonka, MN (US);
Eric D. Rotvold, West Saint Paul, MN (US);
Fisher-Rosemount System, Inc., Austin, TX (US);
Abstract
A method of evaluating a potential location to add a wireless field device to an existing network of a plurality of existing wireless field devices is provided. The method includes placing a handheld field maintenance tool in the potential location and causing the handheld field maintenance tool to identify wireless field devices within communicative range of the potential location. Information related to wireless communication at the potential location is viewed. Methods are also provided for identifying a selected field device in a process installation using a handheld field maintenance tool.