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Efficient Substation SCADA Design for Preventing Downtime in Utilities

In 1880, the town of Wabash, Indiana, became the first city to have electric lights. In 1882, the first central power station opened in Godalming, England. Later that year, Thomas Edison built the first electric station - Pearl Street Station - in New York. This all seems like a long time ago, but in the scope of human history, it wasn't. In a short time, though, our lives...

How to Use SCADA Equipment for the Oil and Gas Industry

The oil and gas industry has a very large footprint. Across the three broad sectors - upstream, midstream, and downstream - that footprint includes many examples of remote sites hosting expensive, important assets. Assets from wellheads to pipelines to holding tanks are often more than two hours away from the nearest maintenance worker. This causes delayed responses, which can allow problems to worsen. SCADA equipment for oil and gas companies helps...

SNMP Manager Comparison

Are you looking for a competent SNMP manager for your system? Are you not sure what you should be looking for yet? You've probably studied many options in terms of SNMP alarm masters - varying in price and features - that...

Empower a Remote Asset Monitoring System for Protecting Your Highly-Valued Equipment

The oil and gas industry is incredibly huge and lucrative. It spans the globe, drilling on land and sea, and spurs worldwide competition between nations. But it also relies upon each of its parts - wells, rigs, compressors, tanks, and rectifiers. It's an industry whose worth is measured in the trillions but whose fortune comes down to protecting individual pieces of equipment. That's why remote asset monitoring is...

SNMP RTU Price

SNMP, short for Simple Network Management Protocol, is nothing more than a standard language that computers use to control each other and report important data. Its advantage today is that a very large number of devices can...

RTU Troubleshooting for an Effective SCADA System

SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) systems are powerful tools. They provide central office technicians, dispatchers, and managers with the ability to see a company's entire physical footprint. As information flows from the company's widespread locations up the network into the central office, so too can your command flow down from the office to the branches. Why send a technician out to an overheating equipment room 150...

Top 3 CRAC Monitoring Best Practices

Computer room air conditioners - aka CRACs - help keep your data center cool. However, as equipment in your computer room becomes more complex and compact, you can watch your power draw and heat generation rise quickly to the point that...

How to Reduce Your Warehouse Security System Cost by Eliminating the Middleman

In a sprawling national economy, warehouses dot the landscape across densely urban areas and far-flung remote locations. But no matter where they are, they need security. They need to be monitored around the clock. There are too many things - accidental and intentional - that can go wrong. If you're looking to monitor a remote station, your warehouse security system cost is going to be both mission-critical and expensive. This...

How to Implement a SCADA Network

SCADA network and control can save you a lot of money and increase profitability. However, your SCADA implementation (if not done properly) can be a sinkhole of cost overruns, delays, and limited capabilities. Let's go...

5 Industrial Hurricane Preparedness Strategies for Remotely Monitoring and Controlling Your Equipment

What's the point of a train? To connect distant locations. So, naturally, railways sprawl. Some cover millions of miles of track, trains, stations, telecommunications equipment, and more. A million miles is a lot to follow. So, it's easy to start losing track, and monitoring all of it can become challenging. Those dozens, thousands, or millions of miles of track and infrastructure travel through the real world where...