Two reoccurring issues we are seeing in U.S. manufacturing are modernization projects and aging infrastructure, and in Riverside, Calif., the Western Municipal Water District (WMWD) faced the former ...

A key element to this paradigm shift is the deployment of a distributed sensor network that can continuously monitor water ...

Three years after announcing it would upgrade Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems at its filtration plants, Sydney Water will start an 80-week project scheduled to begin this year ...

Orwigsburg borough is another step closer to completing a SCADA upgrade on the borough water system. SCADA is defined as supervisory control and data acquisition and is basically software that ...

The U.S. Department of the Interior’s USGS agency reports that there are about 67,000 large (utility-scale) wind turbines in operation in the United States. These thousands of wind turbines are ...

This paper explains where vulnerabilities within an HMI/SCADA system may lie, describes how the inherent security of system designs minimizes some risks, outlines proactive steps businesses can take, ...

The city of St. Helena is warning customers that city water failed to meet treatment standards, and is planning urgent upgrades to a crucial water monitoring system. The two unrelated problems with St ...

As told by Ian Verhappen and Graham Nasby. The ISA108 committee is working in a collaborative effort with IEC SC65E WG10 on an important emerging area of automation: intelligent device management.

The ease with which TCP/IP enables one to connect networks has been a huge boon for the power generation industry. Far-flung operations can be hooked up to the network and controlled remotely. And ...

All of this can be accomplished with the use of a SCADA system within the automation process. However, none of these functions are available if the system is not designed with a reliable power source ...