SCADA stands for Supervisor Control And Data Acquisition.
It is a production automation and control system based on PCs.
It is widely used in many fields : e.g. power generation, water system, oil industy, chemistry,
automobile industry.
Different fields need different functions, but they all have bellow features :
- Graphical interface
- Process simulation
- Real time and historic trend logging
- Alam system
- Data acquisition and recording
- Data analysis
- Report generation
Using SCADA software, users can easily integrate
many different hardware devices to build a huge system.