Field Device Technology (FDT) is the interface that communicates between the Device Type Manager (DTM) and the frame (software like PACTware). Simply put, the FDT controls the data exchange between however many different DTMs in place and the frame program.
Just as you need an Internet browser, like Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox or Netscape, to look at to look at a webpage – you need a frame program (such as PACTware) to view, access and use a device type manager (DTM).
Every webpage is different, just like the DTMs’ of different manufacturers, but we can see them all through our browser. So if our browser is PACTware, and our Device Type Managers (DTMs) are the web pages, then the Field Device Technology (FDT) is like the HTML (the universal website building language).
The FDT is a universal interface that translates all the data from the sensor DTMs into a language that PACTware can work with and you can read easily and analyse data from.
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