Terminology - ABB COM600 series User Manual

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Terminology

Term
Alarm
Alarms and Events; AE
Data Access; DA
Data Object; DO
Data Set
Device
Event
Description
An abnormal state of a condition.
An OPC service for providing information about alarms and
events to OPC clients.
An OPC service for providing information about process data to
OPC clients.
Part of a logical node object representing specific information,
for example, status, or measurement. From an object-oriented
point of view, a data object is an instance of a class data object.
DOs are normally used as transaction objects; that is, they are
data structures.
The data set is the content basis for reporting and logging. The
data set contains references to the data and data attribute val-
ues.
A physical device that behaves as its own communication node
in the network, for example, protection relay.
Change of process data or an OPC internal value. Normally, an
event consists of value, quality, and timestamp.
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