DEVICE AND METHOD FOR THE CONTROL AND/OR MONITORING OF DECENTRALISED INTELLIGENT FUNCTIONAL UNITS IN A RAIL TRAFFIC NETWORK

摘要

The present invention has for its object to provide a device and method for controlling and / or monitoring arranged in a rail network decentralized functional units that are compared to the existing facilities easier and cheaper to operate and, if necessary. Also have a lower footprint. This object is achieved according to the invention with a device and a method for controlling and / or monitoring decentralized functional units arranged in a rail transport network, comprising:a) a higher-level control system (30) which exchanges information with the decentralized functional units (DFE, EC, C1 to C4) by means of data telegrams (DT),b) a data transport network (TN) with a number of network access points (2 to 16), wherein the higher-level control system (30) via at least one network access point (2, 4) is coupled to the data transport network (TN);c) communication units (18 to 28), which are connected to a network access point (6 to 16) and provide access to the data transport network (TN) to the decentralized functional units (DFE, EC, C1 to C4),andd) the decentralized functional units (DFE, EC, C1 to C4) automatically execute and / or manage control, monitoring and locking functions and, according to a track plan principle, with the respectively adjacent decentralized functional unit (DFE, EC, C1 to C4) according to the track plan principle are logically connected and directly communicate with these data to perform the control and / or monitoring and / or locking functions. In this way, the interlocking functionalities can be partially or even completely outsourced from a central indoor plant in the decentralized functional units, which has the consequence that the indoor facilities either drastically reduced or even completely dissolved.