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34.1 Introduction
WorldFIP is a eldbus that has been mainly designed for time-critical applications featured by periodic
processes.
Its
name
comes
from
the
eldbus instrumentation protocol
that
was
initially
standardized
as
French
national
Standard
and
subsequently
included
into
the
European
Fieldbus
Standard
CENELEC
EN50170.
e
name
has
been
changed
into
WorldFIP
to
make
it
more
attractive
for
the
international
market.
e basic idea behind WorldFIP is to consider all variables relevant to the application process as
a distributed database that is periodically refreshed in order to maintain the values of the updated
variables. is prov