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7 unusual facts about SCADA


Auspex, Inc.

was founded 1985 by Michael Henney, Burt Brockman and Terry Kisner to develop SCADA software systems.

Ferguson Plarre Bakehouses

Fully integrated SCADA (Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition) energy monitoring system to allow "real time" monitoring of all energy consumption

Lift Upgrading Programme

TMS uses SCADA technology to monitor the status of the lifts in real-time from a centralized master station for events such as breakdown and trapped passengers.

Protective relay

Numeric relays can also provide functions such as communications (SCADA) interface, monitoring of contact inputs, metering, waveform analysis, and other useful features.

SCADA

-- citations as support of the statements are fine --> In electric and gas utility SCADA systems, the vulnerability of the large installed base of wired and wireless serial communications links is addressed in some cases by applying bump-in-the-wire devices that employ authentication and Advanced Encryption Standard encryption rather than replacing all existing nodes.

Data may also be fed to a Historian, often built on a commodity Database Management System, to allow trending and other analytical auditing.

The International Society of Automation (ISA) started formalizing SCADA security requirements in 2007 with a working group, WG4.


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Advanced Plant Management System

The Advanced Plant Management System (APMS) is a SCADA solution developed in partnership by RWE npower and Thales UK.

Direct digital control

In many cases, the HMI (human machine interface) or SCADA (Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition) are part of it.

IEC 61334

The protocol layers are designed to integrate with any application layer, but the presence of a management interface suggests a design targeted to DLMS/COSEM, a widely used EU standard for the application layer of meters and SCADA.

WinCos

The control/PLC level where the process interlocking is secured, the HMI level presenting the graphical display of the process and the SCADA/MES (Manufacturing execution system)/MIS (Management Information System).


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