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A Survey of Description Methods for Fieldbus Systems

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Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA 2021)

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Fieldbus systems have been around in the manufacturing industries for quite a while now, and with the increasing trends in Building Automation Systems it has also entered into other domains. In order to closely monitor, visualise and analyse these systems for enabling and aiding services such as energy management, predictive maintenance and strengthening security, it is essential to describe these system in an appropriate manner. This paper discusses different methods available for describing these systems, and how those methods vary from each other.

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This research is financed by grant from the German Ministry of Economics and Energy.

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  1. University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany

    Darshit Pandya

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  1. Department of Information and Communication Engineering, Fukuoka Institute of Technology, Fukuoka, Japan

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  3. Faculty of Business Administration, Rissho University, Tokyo, Japan

    Tomoya Enokido

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Pandya, D. (2021). A Survey of Description Methods for Fieldbus Systems. In: Barolli, L., Woungang, I., Enokido, T. (eds) Advanced Information Networking and Applications. AINA 2021. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 227. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-75078-7_21

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