Industrial plant monitoring
The present invention provides a medical device securement system ( 10 ) for releasably anchoring a medical device (C) such as a catheter hub to the skin of a patient. The system ( 10 ) comprises a main body having a first section ( 14 ) and a second section ( 16 ) displaceable relative to one another to translate the system between an undeployed and a deployed state, a skin adhering element in the form of microneedle arrays projecting from a tissue contacting surface of the first section ( 14 ) and a second array of microneedles projecting from a tissue contacting surface of the second section ( 16 ), a retention device ( 24 ) provided on the main body for receiving and engaging the medical device (C), wherein the first section ( 14 ) comprises a first base defining the tissue contacting surface and a closure member ( 20 ) hingedly articulated relative to the first base.
1 . A method for integrating asset data from an industrial asset located within an industrial plant, the asset being communicatively coupled to a first processing layer, wherein the asset data is provided to a second processing layer via the first processing layer, the first processing layer being communicatively coupled to the second processing layer, and wherein the first processing layer and the second processing layer are configured in a secure network comprising at least two security zones delimited by firewalls, the method comprising:
generating, at the second processing layer, technical context data related to the asset; and
providing, via the second processing layer, the technical context data to an interface to an external network, wherein the technical context data comprises at least one accessibility criterion for the asset data, the accessibility criterion comprising at least one rule and/or parameter compliable by an external processing layer for receiving the asset data;
generating, via the second processing layer, at least a first partial request for accessing the asset data;
measuring at least a first response to the first partial request, the first response being indicative of the impact of the first partial request on at least one computational and/or network resource; and
determining, dependent upon the first response, at least a first iterative parameter, wherein the technical context data is at least partially generated using the first iterative parameter.
2 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein the technical context data is at least partially generated using at least one of the: a priori determined parameters including asset network address, asset CPU load, asset memory such as Random Access Memory (“RAM”), and network path between the industrial asset and the external processing layer.
3 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein the method further comprises:
generating dependent upon the response, via the second processing layer, a second partial request for accessing the asset data; wherein the second partial request is more resource-demanding than the first partial request;
measuring a second response to the second partial request; the second response being indicative of the impact of the second partial request on the at least one computational and/or network resource; and
determining, dependent upon the first response and/or the second response, the at least first and/or a second iterative parameter.
4 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein the method further comprises:
transmitting, via the interface, the technical context data to the external processing layer.
5 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein the method further comprises:
receiving, at the second processing layer, at least one selected accessibility criterion,
wherein the at least one selected accessibility criterion is selected from the technical context data, and selection being performed by the external processing layer.
6 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein the method further comprises:
receiving, at the external processing layer, the asset data,
wherein the asset data is transmitted, via the second processing layer, according to the at least one selected accessibility criterion.
7 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein the method further comprises:
storing, via the external processing layer, at least some of the technical context data as historical context data; and
receiving, at the second processing layer, at least one pre-selected accessibility criterion,
wherein the at least one pre-selected accessibility criterion is selected from the historical technical context data, and selection being performed by the external processing layer.
8 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein the method further comprises:
receiving, at the external processing layer, low-resolution asset data,
wherein the low-resolution asset data is a subset of the asset data requested by the external processing layer, and wherein the low-resolution data is usable by the external processing layer at least for initiating at least one data analysis.
9 . The method according to claim 8 , wherein the method further comprises:
receiving, at the external processing layer, a second low-resolution asset data,
wherein the second low-resolution asset data is a subset of the asset data requested by the external processing layer, and wherein the second low-resolution asset data is usable by the external processing layer in combination with the low-resolution asset data for at least further processing the at least one data analysis.
10 . The method according to claim 9 , wherein the low-resolution asset data and the second low-resolution data have different resolutions from each another.
11 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein the technical context data is generated using a machine learning (“ML”) model, e.g., a trainable neural network, which has been trained using historical access and/or transfer data related to the asset, and/or data from at least one historical partial request being used for determining the at least first and/or a second iterative parameter.
12 . A non-transitory computer readable medium having instructions stored thereon which, when executed by a suitable computer processor, cause the processor to carry out the method of claim 1 .
13 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein a first security zone of the at least two security zones is situated on the first processing layer, and wherein a second security zone of the at least two security zones is situated around the second processing layer.
14 . An industrial plant system comprising:
a first processing layer and a second processing layer, the first processing layer being communicatively coupled to the second processing layer, and the first processing layer and the second processing layer being configured in a secure network comprising at least two security zones delimited by firewalls, wherein at least one industrial asset is configured to communicatively couple to the first processing layer, wherein the asset is configured to provide asset data to the second processing layer via the first processing layer, the plant control system further comprising an interface to an external network, wherein the second processing layer is configured to:
generate technical context data related to the asset; and
provide the technical context data to the interface, wherein the technical context data comprises at least one accessibility criterion for the asset data, the accessibility criterion comprising at least one rule and/or parameter compliable by an external processing layer for receiving the asset data;
generate at least a first partial request for accessing the asset data;
measure at least a first response to the first partial request, the first response being indicative of the impact of the first partial request on at least one computational and/or network resource; and
determine, dependent upon the first response, at least a first iterative parameter, wherein the technical context data is at least partially generated using the first iterative parameter.