Smart SCADA allows to reach a new automation level

Smart SCADA is the main point to reach a new level of automation, this is possible thanks to the breaking principle of the CIM pyramid.

Let's see together what are the fundamental principles of Smart SCADA and as long as these allow new openings and methodologies towards automation, thus bringing new paradigms capable of satisfying the new needs of monitoring, control and command in process plants and machines.

The principles underlying the Smart SCADA can be summarized in the need to overcome the limits imposed by a model that is too constrained in rigid levels. The advent of the IoT and then the IIoT has opened up new possibilities, this has allowed us to change perspective and thus solve old and unresolved problems with innovative solutions. The Smart SCADA is a modular structure, it must adapt to automation regardless of the brand or technology used. It has to be an interpreter who can understand the missions that come from the conduction level, in order to transfer them to the field level.

Making Smart SCADA means adopting the so-called "3 + 3 principles". The first 3 principles are summarized in:

Convergence: the ability to adapt and exploit OT / IT convergence, or to use the architectures and technologies of IT.

Scalability: the ability to scale both as a solution, that is to adapt easily to both small and large plants, and as a use of resources such as hardware and redundancy management.

Modularity: the ability to break down the problem into autonomous modules, this allows the development of supervision through parameterization, limiting the need for coding and facilitating the management of teams and people.

The three principles listed above form the basis of the framework, these are completed by the three principles dedicated to the concept of modularity (hence the name 3 + 3):

Self-consistency: a module must be able to parameterize itself in such a way that once instantiated it "lives its own life". The module, which in this context is a software component, must be able to connect to the data sources of interest, set their attributes based on the environment and the application, independently managing the default values to facilitate the designer and reduce human errors.

Replicability: a module is a software component that can represent a feature or a piece of equipment, it must be able to be instantiated several times, even on different devices.

Modularity: complex processes can be divided into sub-processes, each sub-process can be managed by a module, complex processes are managed by the composition of two or more modules.

 

More detail regarding Smart SCADA infrastructure you can find on this book.

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