Remote monitoring system for distributed control of industrial plant process
R. Kiruba Shankar, K. Krishnamurthy, Jamaludin Indra · Journal of Scientific & Industrial Research · 2009
This paper proposes a remote monitoring system as part of Distributed Control System (DCS) of process plant. Remote plant critical alarms from DCS are continuously monitored online through Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) system. A report, which contains alarm details formulated through MS-Excel, is sent to respective e-mail recipients through Outlook Express. For system maintenance, M2M gateway and Virtual Private Network (VPN) technology are used in remote monitoring. Service engineers can remotely view real time conditions of plant area, diagnose problem and help plant engineers to rectify it to avoid plant failures and maximizing plant process availability.