Within this work in progress paper, a concept for uniform engineering of wide-area distributed control systems (DCS), ranging from local area networks (LANs) to wide area networks (WANs), and forming "virtual automation networks" will be presented. Based on this heterogeneous communication infrastructure, incorporating all kinds of communication technologies, the basic concept of a DCS ranging from the automation device and network topologya uniform engineering concept and integration strategies to manage such systems will be introduced.
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Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation, 2007. ETFA. IEEE Conference on
Date of Conference: 25-28 Sept. 2007