Adam Stone writes on technology trends from Annapolis, Md., with a focus on government IT, military and first-responder technologies. Little-known fact: The power plant able to generate the most ...

Supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems have an important role on automation projects. Though a lot has changed in 60 years, not many improvements have been made to SCADA systems in ...

The ability to monitor and control distributed generation assets, on-site or from remote locations, continues to become more efficient and sophisticated. SCADA software for power control systems ...

The U.S. Department of the Interior’s USGS agency reports that there are about 67,000 large (utility-scale) wind turbines in operation in the United States. These thousands of wind turbines are ...

While both human machine interface (HMI) and supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) technologies connect humans with equipment, HMIs tend to be local to a machine, allowing a user to ...

Join us for an insightful webinar where we discuss the use of SCADA (supervisory control and data acquisition) systems—a crucial type of industrial control system (ICS) used for monitoring and ...

User interface is the most visible system component when it comes to equipment operation. From the steering wheel and instrument cluster on your vehicle’s dashboard to the most complex industrial ...

Customized Russelectric ® supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems enable users to monitor system operation, acknowledge alarms, and review PLC set points and alarm history. The basic ...

An international research team developed CyberSentry, a software framework using advanced deep learning and optimization techniques to enhance cybersecurity in SCADA systems for power plants and ...

All of this can be accomplished with the use of a SCADA system within the automation process. However, none of these functions are available if the system is not designed with a reliable power source ...

It’s never comfortable to talk about data breaches, but companies rarely have a choice. Whether a company reports a system breach because it’s required to, or whether the media picks up on the story ...