ARC Informatique is Awarded U.S. Patent for Contextual Mobility for its PcVue HMI/SCADA

WOBURN, Mass., Nov. 21, 2017 -- Leading HMI/SCADA provider PcVue Inc., announces that the United States Patent Office has granted a patent for Contextual Mobility to use PcVue HMI/SCADA solutions in new and innovative location-based mobile applications.  ARC Group companies: ARC Informatique, PcVue Inc. and PcVue GmbH of Germany designed the patented innovation of systems and methods for location-based control of equipment and facility resources. It is particularly important for Industrial Control Systems (ICS) including Building Management Systems (BMS), Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) and Human Machine Interfaces (HMI) as described by U.S. Patent No. 9,819,509.

The massive adoption of smart mobile devices by field engineers and operators is creating new opportunities and also new challenges for mobile workers. Today, automated systems in the plant and facilities generate large amounts of information that must be intelligently presented as relevant information and controls, given the much smaller screen size of mobile devices when compared to control rooms.  ICS users have demanded innovative approaches to monitor, diagnose, maintain and control industrial and building assets from their mobile device.

The patented systems and methods are now incorporated in PcVue Solutions.  Via a mobile device, location information of a user, in or near a facility, is detected using a position sensor. The location information is communicated wirelessly from the user’s mobile device to a server. One or more actions are determined as being available to the user based on the location information and user role - where actions represent those available in an ICS application. Instructions are communicated to cause the mobile device to display the determined available actions in a user interface. This enables the user to receive messages and interact with equipment or facility resources located in proximity to the user by interacting with the one or more actions displayed in the user interface without any need to navigate on their mobile device!

“We listened carefully to our customer’s needs to provide a creative solution to fit their changing work processes and help them achieve their goals more efficiently,” explained Pierre de Bailliencourt, CEO of ARC Informatique.

PcVue Solution’s Contextual Mobility will be presented at trade shows around the world, including the SPS IPC Drives exhibition for electric automation in Nuremburg, Germany on November 28^th-30^th ,the DistribuTECH Conference in San Antonio, Texas, January 23^rd-25^th, and the IoT World Paris March 21^th-22^th  Please visit PcVue Solutions’ website for the schedule of exhibitions showcasing this exciting new technology.

About ARC Informatique 

ARC Informatique is located in Sèvres – France, is one of Europe’s leading HMI/SCADA companies. ARC Informatique has subsidiaries in 11 countries. It has 500 active users worldwide, 40 resellers, 20 private label OEM agreements, 100 certified integration partners. With over 60,000 licenses installed, PcVue, the primary solution, is applied in all of applications, from HMI to full SCADA and control, addressing all market segments with a particular focus on Smart Building and Smart Grid applications. For more information, visit www.pcvuesolutions.com  

About PcVue 

PcVue is a provider of advanced HMI/SCADA software solutions in North America. For more than 30 years, PcVue and its affiliate ARC Informatique have been developing, marketing and supporting innovative component-based solutions used by VAR's, OEM's and System Integrators for BMS and SCADA applications. Headquartered in Woburn, Massachusetts and backed by ARC Informatique's global reach, PcVue automation solutions are used by corporations around the world. usa.pcvuesolutions.com.

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