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What is SCADA?
The acronym SCADA stands for Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition. Its a system that provides Control, Monitoring and Data Acquisition to facilities that span great distances, but require simple but repetitive control and adjustments, thereby reducing man hours considerably. SCADA is ideal for Water Management.

What makes up a SCADA system?
A basic system would incorporate data collection devices, a PLC or data logger with a transmitter, a receiver, and a master station to receive information.

At SCADA�s most complex, many different devices can communicate with the master station. SCADA communicates to the Master Station through telephone lines or wireless transmissions. Once your master station receives information, it can be networked to workstations, phones, and pda�s using Local Area Networks, the internet, and wireless technology.

Each remote device (RTU) effectively collects information at a site, while communications bring that information from the various plant or regional RTU sites to a central control location, and occasionally returns instructions to the RTU.

An HMI at the central control station displays this information in an easily understood graphics form, archives the data received, transmits alarms and permits operator control as required.

What are the benefits of SCADA?
With SCADA you can monitor such things as tank levels, treatment levels, your physical premises with cameras, electrical conditions, water parameters , and atmospheric conditions. It allows you to control and adjust systems settings from computers, phones, and PDA�s. SCADA provides you with an overview of your facilities and decreases visits to the pump station, transportation costs, man-hours and emergency callouts. At any time you can view in real time your entire network or a specific area of your system using graphs, simulated process monitoring, and reports.

SCADA and Security
Security of our utilities is a growing concern in North America. Water systems have been identified as susceptible targets for biological, chemical, and radioactive contamination. Monitoring the physical premises of a water supply system is becoming a primary concern for water managers.

SCADA systems can integrate specific security equipment, such as video cameras, motion sensors, lights, contact switches, data from card reading systems, etc., thereby providing a clear picture of what is happening at areas throughout a facility. A SCADA system can provide round-the-clock vigilance.

Security breaches are reported to the operations staff in the same manner as process failure via the visual and audible alarm systems built into the SCADA systems. SCADA systems also automatically react to conditions and perform emergency shutdown of processes, starting or stopping of pumps, opening and closing of valves, etc. Online analyzers hooked onto the SCADA system through standard interfaces can provide detection of biohazards and chemical contaminants.