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Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) defined
From the course: Learning Industrial Automation
Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) defined
- [Instructor] SCADA. SCADA is an acronym for supervisory control, and data acquisition. The major function of SCADA is for acquiring data from a remote devices, such as valves, pumps, transmitters, et cetera, and providing an overall control remotely from a SCADA host software platform. This provides process control locally so that these devices turn on, and off at right time, and a remote method for capturing data, and events for monitoring these processes. SCADA host platforms also provide function for graphical displays, alarming, trending and historical storage of data. A typical SCADA system consists of SCADA Master, that is connected to either a remote location unit that contains controllers, remote terminal units or PLCs, or connected locally to a local location units that is connected to a control system. It could be either a PLC or DCS and a field devices. SCADA was traditionally used for data…
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