INPUT/OUTPUT (I/O) BINDING WITH AUTOMATIC INTERNATIONAL ELECTROMECHANICAL COMMISSION (IEC) ADDRESS GENERATION IN REMOTE TERMINAL UNIT (RTU) CONFIGURATION

摘要

A method incudes automatically assigning (520), by at least one processor (210), an IEC address (340)to an I/O binding variable (325) for an RTU (102). This includes identifying (510)atype (330) of the I/O binding variable and identifying (535) a size of the I/O binding variable based on the identified type. The size represents a number of memory locations (410) to be used to store the I/O binding variable in at least one memory of the RTU. This also includes, in response to determining (540) that the at least one memory (400-401) contains a free space (455) to store the I/O binding variable based on the identified size, assigning (550) the IEC address identifying the free space to the I/O binding variable.