Compliance to Industry Standards
When you are looking for a new SCADA platform one of the things that should be high on your priority list is compliance to industry standards. This not only ensures long product lifecycle but it will be easier to find engineers that understand the technology. Let’s look at some examples:
- Operating system, all flavors of Microsoft Windows: 2003, XP, Vista, 2008, Win 7, 32bit and 64bit
- Industry standard protocols: MODBUS, DNP3, IEC870, OPC
- Network management: SNMP and ICMP driver
- Web access: HTML and/or XML including SSL if required
- OPC Client: Data Access (DA) and XML-DA
- OPC Server: Data Access (DA), Alarms and Events (AE), Historical Data Access (HDA)
- SQL via ODBC or OLE-DB: access to configuration db, real-time db, alarm/event journal and historian
- Application Programming Interface: OLE Automation, .NET
Industry standard protocols
