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SCADA
Supervisory
Control and Data Acquisition is used widely in the water
and petroleum pipeline sector where the ability to collect
data from distant unmanned outposts is of great benefit.
As the name indicates, it is not a full control system, but
rather focuses on the supervisory level. It is a purely software
package that is positioned on top of hardware to which it
is interfaced and gathers data while the system it is working
for is online.
Huge amount of highly relevant data can be gleaned and analyzed
automatically, and then used to adjust the system accordingly;
improving efficiency, spotting potential malfunctions while
reducing downtime and operating costs.
The beauty of SCADA is that it is scaleable to any application
size and number of input/output lines with ease; from small
plants to the huge CERN particle accelerator institute in
France.
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