6 articles tagged with "Scada"
Because it allows you to build anything, most people build a mess that is unmaintainable, insecure, and terrifyingly fragile under load.
They just needed to avoid a two-hour drive to site to clear a trip signal.
A remote trip command is sent to the wrong feeder, or worse, a set of downstream protective relays are left in a blind spot during a maintenance outage.
It is usually a slow, agonizing latency spike where the GUI updates every ten seconds, followed by a complete loss of communication with the field devices.
Engineering, however, ends up paying the price when the deterministic requirements of a protection scheme clash with the asynchronous data handling of a high...
The problem is almost certainly a field-level communication failure at the Remote Terminal Unit (RTU) level, or a protocol mismatch that has turned your data...