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Practical SCADA for Industry - D. Bailey Practical SCADA for Industry, 1st Edition by David Bailey Edwin Wright Paperback ISBN: 9780750658058 eBook ISBN: 9780080473901 Imprint: Newnes Published Date: 23rd June 2003 Page Count: 304  A SCADA system gathers information, such as where a leak on a pipeline has occurred, transfers the information back to a central site, alerting the home station that the leak has occurred, carrying out necessary analysis and control, such as determining if the leak is critical, and displaying the information in a logical and organized fashion. SCADA systems can be relatively simple, such as one that monitors environmental conditions of a small office building, or incredibly complex, such as a system that monitors all the activity in a nuclear power plant or the activity of a municipal water system. Key Features An engineer`s introduction to Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems and their application in monitoring and controlling equipment and industrial plant Essential reading for data acquisition and control professionals in plant engineering, manufacturing, telecommunications, water and waste control, energy, oil and gas refining and transportation Provides the knowledge to analyse, specify and debug SCADA systems, covering the fundamentals of hardware, software and the communications systems that connect SCADA operator stations Readership Control and instrumentation engineers; industrial system integrators; students taking electronics or computing degree courses; electrical, mechanical and chemical engineers and technicians wishing to understand the essentials of modern SCADA systems Table of Contents Background to SCADA SCADA Systems Hardware (and Firmware) SCADA Systems Software and Protocols Landlines Local Area Network Systems Modems Central Site Computer Facilities Troubleshooting and Maintenance Specification of Systems Appendix A: Glossary of Terms Appendix B: Interface Standards Appendix C: CITECT Practical About the Author David Bailey David Bailey has worked as a telecommunications design engineer in Europe, Australia, Africa and Hong Kong for the past fifteen years. He built up an excellent reputation whilst working for IDC Technologies as a superb instructor in the area of radio engineering. He currently consults to a number of blue chip clients in the telecommunications industry. |
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