The Development of SCADA and Instrumentation on the GPSS
Tim Whittle · Measurement and Control · 2013
The government had, during the Second World War, constructed a massive system of protected storage depots and pipelines for the storage and transport of petroleum fuels. With the end of the war, the system was largely decommissioned. It was to be another war, the ‘Cold War’, which would lead in the 1950s to the reuse, and a considerable expansion, of the system. It was later to be adapted to additionally meet the increased use of petroleum fuels for civil aviation, heating and motor transportation. This article describes how this system was monitored and controlled from the 1950s up to the present day. It covers the improvements in the usage of instrumentation, automation, telemetry and SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) systems during that 60-year period.