Abstract

A diagnosis application has been built for a three tank fluid dynamics system. The data acquisition component of this system employs networked smart sensor nodes that have an implementation of the IEEE 1451.1 object model on board. The diagnosis system operates on-line on a Personal Computer that appears on the network as another computational node. The diagnosis methodology has several aspects that allow distribution of the monitoring and diagnosis functionality on such a network of embedded processors. The system represents our fist step to building a truly distributed monitoring and diagnosis application.

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