SYSTEM, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR PATTERN BASED INTELLIGENT CONTROL, MONITORING AND AUTOMATION

摘要

The present invention relates to control, monitoring andau-tomation. The present invention more specifically relates to pattern-basedin-telligent control, monitoring and automation. The invention performspattern--based monitoring. It collects signal data from one or more signals.The signaldata define signal data streams. It then transforms each of the signal datastreams into trends. It also discovers patterns based on the trends withineachsignal data stream and/or across the signal data streams. The patterns areop-tionally used for diagnostics and root cause analysis, online plantmonitoringand operation control, plant optimization, and other environments where acausal link or correlation may exist between related inputs, states and/orout-puts.