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- Patent Title: Method and system for detecting and mitigating cabling issues with devices in substation automation systems
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Application No.: US16772771Application Date: 2019-06-17
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Publication No.: US11411807B2Publication Date: 2022-08-09
- Inventor: David Kozhaya , Thanikesavan Sivanthi , Yvonne-Anne Pignolet
- Applicant: ABB Schweiz AG
- Applicant Address: CH Baden
- Assignee: ABB Schweiz AG
- Current Assignee: ABB Schweiz AG
- Current Assignee Address: CH Baden
- Agency: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd.
- International Application: PCT/IB2019/055014 WO 20190617
- International Announcement: WO2020/254852 WO 20201224
- Main IPC: H04L41/0659
- IPC: H04L41/0659 ; H04L41/0677

Abstract:
The invention relates to a method and system for detecting and mitigating cabling issues with devices connected in industrial redundant networks. An agent runs on each device and generates information about traffic received at the corresponding device. The agent running on a node generates indicators of traffic received at each port, and error rates for traffic at each port. The agent running on a switch generates information about switch misconfiguration by collecting device identifiers for each port of the switch. The agents send the information to a network manager, which determines switch misconfigurations and wrong cabling from the received information. The network manager also mitigates cabling issues by sending a signal to the affected device(s) or sending a communication to mitigate the issue.
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