SCADA system is a system used for real-time data acquisition, supervision and control of industrial production processes, and is the basic link of industrial digital transformation. Scada system is often applied to the monitoring and operation of production equipment and production processes, and can solve the interconnection problem of a large number of dispersed industrial facilities. Production data acquisition, remote integrated control, production scheduling and all kinds of signal alarm are realized.

SCADA system is used in a wide range of fields, including oil and gas, electric power, metallurgy, chemical industry, rail transportation, water and other industries, through real-time data collection to effectively monitor the production process, so as to achieve production scheduling. With the advent of Industry 4.0 era, industrial enterprises in the process of seeking digital transformation gradually realized that the existing old SCADA system is difficult to configure, maintain and support, and there are problems such as weak database performance, limited network architecture, and imperfect information security design, which can not meet the application needs of the rapid development of digital information in various industries.

Therefore, enterprises have put forward higher requirements for traditional SCADA.

01 Flatten

With the development of the industrial Internet, SCADA systems show a more flat development trend. On the basis of traditional data acquisition monitoring, more information and intelligent applications are constantly derived, such as SCADA to achieve equipment fault warning and other functions to meet the needs of various industries for advanced functions. Therefore, SCADA systems require a set of standardized and flat platform design to flexibly support function expansion and application integration.

02 Networking

From shop-floor monitoring to cross-regional monitoring at any time and anywhere, SCADA systems are getting larger and larger, so SCADA systems need to have strong network capabilities, can support a variety of network architectures and redundancy technologies, and ensure data access security, flexibility and reliable and stable remote monitoring.

03 Cross-Platform

In order to better adapt to the diversity of operating systems in today’s industrial applications, SCADA systems need to be able to function across multiple operating system applications, thereby increasing the flexibility of applications.

04 Opening up

Intelligent manufacturing focuses on the application of industrial big data, SCADA system as an important data source of industrial operating systems, should have open data interfaces and standards, support a variety of industrial operating system calls.

05 Intelligence

Based on the basis of data acquisition, SCADA system should have more ability to apply data analysis. Based on machine learning and other technologies, it can realize intelligent applications such as optimization analysis of process and fault warning.

SCADA systems of the future

It will be a large-scale integrated control platform integrating production control and intelligent management, providing key technical support for production managers to optimize production and management decisions.

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