Mobile Phone-Based SCADA Automation
Mevlüt Karaçor, Engin Özdemir · Measurement and Control · 2004
upervisory Control And Data Acquisition (SCADA) is a term first introduced in the1960s in Bonville Power Administration and first published in a PICA (Power Industry Computer Application) conference.SCADA systems are used for monitoring and controlling of industrial processes from remote areas.The need to monitor the process and possibly to control the operation of industrial systems from virtually anywhere within the control is becoming an important issue.However with the different types of platforms used in present SCADA systems, incompatibility has become the main obstacle 1 .Other factors that pose problems include cost, security, accessibility, system integration, data integrity and consistency 2 .Many companies are considering SCADA systems to provide access to real-time data display, alarming, trending and reporting from remote equipments by using different communication media such as internet, private lease line (PLL), dial-up connection, satellite and radio modem.Recent technological advances have made location transparency achievable through Internet at a relatively low cost