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H. Kopetz:
"A Universal Smart Transducer Interface";
Talk: V Simpósio Brasileiro de Automação Inteligente, Canela, Brasilien; 2001-11-07 - 2001-11-09; in: "Proceedings of the V Simpósio Brasileiro de Automação Inteligente", (2001), 1 - 8.

A smart transducer is a device that comprises in a compact small unit a sensor or actuator element (possibly both), a micro-controller, a communication controller and the associated software for signal conditioning, calibration, diagnostics, and communication. This paper describes a universal smart transducer interface that supports the provision of a standardized set of services to a user in order to operate, configure and diagnose the transducer device. The encapsulation of the internal complexity of the smart-transducer hardware and software and the internal transducer failure modes behind such a generic interface reduces the complexity at the system level.

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