[Scan-DC] SCADA? Was Re: MPD "Mysterious" data noise

[Mike Wade]

SCADA - Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition.

Acronym for supervisory control and data acquisition,
a computer system for gathering and analyzing real
time data. SCADA systems are used to monitor and
control a plant or equipment in industries such as
telecommunications, water and waste control, energy,
oil and gas refining and transportation. 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. SCADA systems were first used
in the 1960s. 

Defintion thanks to SCADANEWS.com

Just a side note it was/is believed that a failure in
this system that monitors the electrical grid was the
cause of the great NE black-out this year.

Regards,
Mike

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