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The Internet provides an ideal platform for remote performance monitoring and maintenance of real-time control systems. This chapter introduces the need for and objectives of remote performance monitoring and develops a systematic method for the design of such a remote monitoring and maintenance system, specifically for process control systems. A back-end and a front-end architecture are proposed for the remote performance monitoring and maintenance of control systems, in which all the heavy calculations are carried out locally, while light data and the characteristics of any heavy data are sent to the front end located on the remote side for consideration by remote experts. The remote control performance monitoring and maintenance system is illustrated by reference to the implementation in a process control unit.
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Yang, SH. (2011). Remote Control Performance Monitoring and Maintenance over the Internet. In: Internet-based Control Systems. Advances in Industrial Control. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84996-359-6_11
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