Pre-Grant Publication Number: 20070255832
Filing Date: April 30, 2006
Inventors: Andre Riesberg, Anke Eggengoor
Assignee: GE
Current U.S. Classification: 709, 709/226000
View Prior Art for Claim 00008
A method for automatic setup of a local network in a windfarm, comprising the steps of
(a) automatically allocating IP addresses to a plurality of devices connected to said local windfarm network,
(b) automatically discovering a topology of said local windfarm network,
(c) automatically identifying at least one wind turbine subnetwork,
(d) receiving an identifier tag for said at least one wind turbine subnetwork, and
(e) relating the automatically allocated IP addresses of the devices comprised in that at least one wind turbine subnetwork to the wind turbine identified by said identifier tag.
Patent/Application # US 2005/0163118 A1
Description
The method involves connecting the device to a port of a switch, transmitting an identity of the port from the switch to the device using a neighborhood detection protocol, transmitting the identifier of the port from the device to an address server and allocating the Internet Protocol address to the device based on the identity of the port.
Patent/Application # WO 2001082032 A2
Description
A method of network addressing based on the physical location of the devices in a network communications system. Accordingly, each the devices in the network communiations system is equipped with a physical site locator to identify the physical location of the device so that the physical location can be used as an address to allow the device to communicate with other devices in the network.
