HISS - a new approach for intelligent supervision

Todays sensor systems provide adequate information for automatic control systems and reliable alarm detection systems, but they do not provide enough information to make human supervision superfluous. Any plant needs human supervision, some round the clock, some just every few days. This increases the costs of plant operation dramatically, especially for plants far away from the next central station or even offshore plants. To reduce these costs, Siemens I&S has developed a system called HISS, the Human Interface Supervision System. The idea of this system is to replace human supervision by an automatic system that has human abilities and that supervises the plant round the clock. The first prototype of this system, installed at a plant of BEB, the biggest German gas producer, has got video cameras, microphones and a gas detection system to emulate the human senses watching, listening, and smelling. The sensor information is processed by an intelligent logic, that is able to combine, to compare and to learn, just like a human being. HISS Logic includes the combination, comparing and learning of the data. The results can be viewed either on site on the server PC or remote on any client PC that is connected to the selected transmission network. HISS Logic is described in the paper