Supervisory control and data acquisition systems (SCADA) are widely used in industry for supervisory control and data acquisition of industrial processes. The process can be industrial, infrastructure or facility. With the advances of electronic and software technologies, the SCADA systems are widely used in industrial plant automation. It provides an efficient tool to monitor and control equip...

Most of the national critical key infrastructure, such as power, piped gas and water supply facilities, or the high-speed railroad, is run on the SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) system. Recently, concerns have been raised about the possibility of these facilities being attacked by cyber terrorists, hacking, or viruses. Thus, it is time to adopt the relevant security management ...

This paper proposes a functionally distributed computer system for an EMS and a large-scale SCADA system that features parallel processing and independence of subsystems in order to overcome the limitations of overly large and complex systems. Such a system would increase performance, flexibility of expansion, improve reliability and reduce costs. The feasibility of such a system was investigat...

SCADA, a computer system for gathering and analyzing real time data, is an acronym for Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition. SCADA systems are employed all over the world to monitor and control a plant or any equipment in various industries major ones being telecommunications, water, old and gas, energy and transportation. SCADA Systems are employed by Indian Railways to monitor and control...

Implementation of sophisticated SCADA systems in the water industry has given plant operators unprecedented capability to monitor and control all aspects of water production and distribution from a centralized control centre. Sophisticated utilities recognize that SCADA need not be composed of one or more isolated “islands of automation” but can and should be a single system operating on a Wide...

Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) networks are commonly deployed to aid the operation of large industrial facilities, such as water treatment and distribution facilities, and electricity and gas providers. Historically, SCADA networks were composed by special-purpose embedded devices communicating through proprietary protocols. However, three main trends can be observed in modern...

The sovereignty of nations is highly dependent on the continuous and uninterrupted operation of critical infrastructures. Recent security incidents on SCADA networks show that threats in these environments are increasing in sophistication and number. To protect critical infrastructures against cyber attacks and to cope with their complexity, we advocate the application of a resilience strategy....

This paper presents the findings of part of a study that involves formulating an optimal development plan for the upgrading, expansion and replacement of the supervisory control and data acquisition, energy management systems (SCADA/EMS) systems and associated telecommunication networks for the efficient operation of the Kuwait Power System. This paper deals specifically with designs that are p...

Supervisory control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems play a core role in a nation’s critical infrastructure, overseeing the monitoring and control of systems in electricity, gas supply, logistics services, banks and hospitals. Monitoring safety and security properties in industrial control system (ICS) and SCADA environments faces unique challenges not found in typical enterprise networks. ...

1 : This paper presents the conceptual design and the related implementation of a bidirectional domain interconnection bridging Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems and Geographic Information (GI) systems. Due to the numerous common interests and the fact that both realms, SCADA and GIS, have their own central information, namely time-based sensor data and geographical posit...