What is SCADA technology. I keep hearing about its benefits, and uses, but I don't really know what it is.

 

Jim:

Ian Wiese balled up some lively discussion on how SCADA systems are
different than DCS systems a while back, it's definitely still worth reading
even though it's a few years old now.
http://www.iinet.net.au/~ianw/archive/book1.htm
Joe Manns

 

Available from the ISA bookstore (www.isa.org):
SCADA - Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition, 2nd Edition, Stu Boyer,
published by ISA, ISBN 1-55617-660-0, 1999

 

i'm doing a review on current scada technology, where i can find the trend and latest technology that has been implemented? (websites i mean)

 

To look at someone who has done it right, look at www.specview.com. As for emerging technologies that aren't there yet, look at www.upnp.org. UPnP
covers discovery, disclosure, eventing and presentation. It will be good once it is mature and it will remove thousands of dollars in config time.

Mitch

 

> Available from the ISA bookstore (www.isa.org):
> SCADA - Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition, 2nd Edition, Stu Boyer,
> published by ISA, ISBN 1-55617-660-0, 1999

 

Man there must be some old school AT&T techs in here....hey guys WHAT IS IT (SCADA)? Wow when someone asks a question about a topic they probaly would like an answer to it not were to find it in some TM that yall probably wrote that still doesn't answer his question.

Ok Guy here goes:
SCADA is the acronym for Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition. The term refers to a large-scale, distributed measurement (and control) system. SCADA systems are used to monitor or to control chemical, physical or transport processes.