LARII: Development Tool for Smart Sensors and Actuators

Abstract The development of smart sensors and actuators associated to the communication facilities offered by fieldbuses allow distributing data processing in automation systems. However for the sensors (or actuators) manufacturers, the design of intelligent devices is quite difficult according to the variety of fieldbuses, and the needs of flexibility and standardisation. In that sense, a development tool for design smart devices has been conceived. This tool allows easily realising the soft of an application, which would be implemented in a microcontroller in order to obtain smart devices. The IEC 1131-3 norm is used to describe the functions, and a C program is automatically generated.