SCADA of the Future

SCADA of the Future

Kelly Doran, Industry Solution Architect

AgendaSCADA Trends

– CRM– MOC

Evolution of SCADA Architectures

– T&D, DSS, Rally, Log Servers– Video, Mobile, GIS

SCADA Collaboration– War Rooms, Incident Response

Future SCADA– H/W innovations– Mobile RTUS (Drones)

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SCADA TrendsControl Room Management

Roles and ResponsibilitiesAdequate Information

– SCADA Displays, Safety Points, Point-to-Point – Back-up System Testing– Shift Turnover

Fatigue MitigationAlarm ManagementChange Management Operating Experience

– Training– Compliance Validation– Compliance Deviation

CRM – Driver of ChangeCRM features that have become more common include:• Alert subsystems • Intelligent alarm suppression• Emailing of alarms from SCADA • Tools for auditing changes

– Alarms, inhibits and forced overrides • Alarm shelving or parking, re-alarming, controller limits,

reminder alarms, test-mode alarms• Multiple alarm sets or profiles • Collation of shift relevant information • Commissioning tools for point to point verification

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API RP 1165/ASM• Color• Coding • Text• Navigation• Performance• Clutter• Change

Management

Evolution of the SCADA architecture• Rally or Muster Systems

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Evolution of the SCADA architecture• Rally or Muster Systems

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Operational Intelligence & Analytics

Operational Analytics

Business Analytics

Operational Intelligence

Business Intelligence

Continuous Exploration of Past

Business Performance To Drive Planning

Delivery of PastBusiness InformationBased On Consistent

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Real-Time Root CauseAnalysis To Solve The

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Reactive to Proactive

SCADA and Analytics

How Many, How Often, Where? (Top 5 Sites Energy Usage)

What Happened? (Daily Energy Usage)

What Is The Cause of The Problem? (Temperature)

What Action Is Needed? (Check HVAC)

What If Trends Continue?

What Will Happen Next? (Machinery Failure)

What’s The Best That Can Happen?

Why Is This Happening?

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Evolution of the SCADA architecture

Build Out of Test & Development Systems– Recognized best practice

• Early T&D systems were a copy of just the real-time SCADA

– Historical servers where added – Modern “T&D” systems are now fully distributed

SCADA system with all the replicated, redundant systems

– RTU’s and PLC’s were added so that polling and protocol changes could also be tested


Build Out of Test & Development Systems. – New points or bulk changes need to be applied to

the production system– “Pivot and transfer” tools will filter down to the

changes made and then provide a workflow to move changes to the destination system

• provides an auditable record of the changes made (recorded in the event journal on the receiving system)

Evolution of the SCADA architectureAdoption of Decision Support Systems (DSS)

• Delivers SCADA Data to Enterprise; protecting production SCADA– Originally serving casual users – DSS systems receive replicated near real-time and historical

information providing a safe and secure place to access SCADA data

– Firewalled to be able to receive the SCADA data from production and provide corporate access for a multitude of purposes

– As the business value of the DSS was realized, redundancy and availability and redundant match the overall architecture


Examples of DSS Utilization• Source for Reports (RealTime and Historical)

– SharePoint– Web services– Reporting services– Safer ad-hoc queries and trial reports

• Engineering and operational reviews– Efficiency, regulatory and safety reviews

• longer term retention of history

– Leak detection performance and threshold analysis• Alarm management

Evolution of the SCADA architectureLog Servers

• Error Logs are a key part of any computerized engineering solution – In some cases, the volume of error information generated has

become the root cause of a system failure– And the information being written to the log was lost

• In order to prevent loss of critical log information and to make sure that an error logging subsystem can never take down a live sever, separate Log Servers are now being architected into the overall SCADA system solution.– Additional benefits are the consolidation of all application logs

into a common centralized repository

Real-time Video Surveillance• Smart video cameras offer virtual monitoring providing

intelligence to make well-informed process decisions• Industrial video cameras alarm when temperatures

exceed limits – only meta-data transmitted

• Video cameras detecting natural gas releases have matured and are being installed as hardened industrial cameras monitoring remote stations

• Recent improvements to the hydrocarbon filters enable these cameras to detect liquid hydrocarbon releases on water– complimenting conventional CPL leak detection

Mobile SCADA The complex and extremely sensitive nature of critical infrastructures tend to not lend themselves to the convenience of data on mobile phones or tablets• Conversely, many SCADA systems feed information

into dashboards that provide important business intelligence – Decision makers are looking for up-to-date information

whether sitting at their desk or at the airport

Mobile SCADA • Many SCADA systems can now provide remote alarm

monitoring on tablet devices– If a controller takes an extended break longer a formal shift

handover procedure may need to be executed – With remote alarm monitoring, controllers can stay plugged

into their terminal and watch for critical alarms while on a short break or meeting

• Mobile solutions allow technicians to take readings in the field and verify displays with mobile HMI clients, using the same displays as the control room– Reducing the manpower required for the commissioning/

verification effort

SCADA Collaboration for Incident Response • SCADA is the nerve center for highly complex real-time

operations in both normal and abnormal operating conditions – When a serious incident takes place, it becomes an “all hands on

deck” situation– Operations shift from maintaining safe operations to mitigating the

circumstances – A “war room” environment is invaluable to provide up-to-date

information to the decision makers responsible for the actions taken – SCADA information is key, but only part of the labyrinth of

information needed for emergency response

SCADA Collaboration for Incident Response Incident Management

– Real-time incident tracking and situational monitoring• Tools present disparate information from multiple data

sources, visualized dynamically & updated with data fusion, correlation, and alerts

• Within this “integrated at the glass” environment, collaborative User-Defined Operating Pictures (UDOP) and/or Common Operating Pictures (COP) are created with little or no programming

• Data fusion provides for instant visualization, correlation, and analysis including 2-D and 3-D GEO mapping

GIS in the Control Room• Integration of GIS data with real-time data has been

slower than anticipated – Using a map to navigate an HMI is not GIS

• Merged applications need to be carefully planned to ensure that the human factors involved with the increased data is effective and not disruptive to normal operations

• The integration of SCADA and GIS data on the DSS platform can support both spatial and real-time data while protecting the live production SCADA system – Updating GIS in real time using publish and subscribe

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GIS in the Control RoomUsing the DSS architecture you can choose right GIS applications such as:

– Right-Of-Way / Permitting– Maintenance / Inspection Reporting– Emergency Operations– Asset Accounting and Tax Valuation– Alignment Sheet Generation– One-Call Response– Compliance Reporting– Risk Assessment

• Maintaining the command & control integrity of the mission critical SCADA system

Management of ChangeCRM regulations focus on ensuring changes that effect control center operations are communicated to controllers

– In order to do this efficiently, it has become necessary to better manage all elements of SCADA system change

• Change management tools such as source control and version management provide some MOC functionality – More comprehensive change management processes and

procedures have become another requirement for full- featured SCADA systems

Management of Change

Master DatabasesMultiple copies of the SCADA database complete with change-sets that provide the ability to revert to earlier versions, along with auditing tools that provide verification of the change process, will ensure all change follows the defined process

– Reports provide the evidence required to confirm the actions taken

Change EnforcementAutomatic enforcement when discrepancies are found between the master and the production system is possible – However due to the requirement to inform controllers of any

changes made to the system, caution must be used

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The Evolution of Cloud ComputingHosted Applications

• Operator Training• Liquids SCADA• RWIS• Weather

Forecasting/Load Forecasting

• W/W Solar Co.• Leak Detection

Computing TechnologiesContinuing Performance Improvements

– 64 Bit Computers/OS– Solid State Drives– SQL 2012 (Performance and Analytics)

– Storage Area Networks (SAN’s)• Readily accessible archived data

– Untethered Keyboard & Mouse– Circadian Lighting

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Computing TechnologiesVirtualization• Providing innovative new architectures

– Obvious benefits – cost• Power, deployment, Footprint

– Increased SCADA functionality• Snapshot, cloning for backup and testing

• SCADA Industry cautiously adopting virtualization• Testing, Engineering Stations, Decision Support• Small Systems

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Future SCADAWhat was science fiction in the recent past is now reality. Next generation HMI’s may include:

– LED projected keyboards– HMI navigation by eye movement – Control room displays viewed via “google glasses’ to

increase situational awareness – Laser holograms that display station equipment in

3Dproviding the most realistic representation of remote equipment and related information as technologically possible

Future SCADADomestic drones & driverless vehicles for continuous surveillance

– For third party intrusion and leak detection along pipelines, right of ways, and other

critical infrastructures

Mobile surveillance units will likely be configured as a node in the SCADA system and provide another form of input made available in real-time to SCADA.

The Future is Now….The technological offerings from the future keep on arriving at a continually faster pace • SCADA professionals remain current with new and emerging

technology however the industry tends to take a more conservative approach – Only adopting technology that aligns with all the drivers and best

practices of each industry– Economics pressures will not be relenting any time soon, so cost

reduction is always a major factor

• Any technology that has the ability to improve public safety and protect the environment will find its way from the future to the present

Thank you!

Kelly Doran Schneider Electric

[email protected]

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SCADA of the Future