Method and apparatus for managing field device based on cloud server

摘要

The present disclosure provides a method and apparatus for managing a field device based on a cloud server. The method includes: obtaining, by a client, a list of devices from the cloud server, and selecting a target device to be managed from the list of devices; generating, by the client, a corresponding virtual device driver according to device information of the target device and configuring a driver parameter of the virtual device driver, and sending the driver parameter to an access server via the cloud server to trigger the access server to configure an interface of the target device according to the driver parameter; and determining, by the client, to establish a communication channel between the client and the target device upon reception of a configuration success message returned from the access server, and managing the target device according to the communication channel.