Concepts for SCADA systems planning in a changing competitive environment
J.M. Santos, Anı́bal T. de Almeida · 2005
The electric sector liberalization is creating structural and technological changes in the utilities, pushing the classical SCADA models and other utility systems to an evolving process. There are new needs to be provided, namely data exchange between companies and between different sectors of the same company, remote maintenance, remote equipment configuration, telemetering, demand side management, distributed generation, house/building automation, etc., which creates new challenges to utility SCADA and communication engineers. A proposed architecture solution is presented which is able to provide the required flexibility to cope with all the above mentioned requirements in a cost-effective way. (5 pages)