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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...

DNP3 Best Practices

DNP3 - short for Distributed Network Protocol - is one of the widely used protocols within the electrical and water utility industries for monitoring equipment over serial or IP. The DNP3 protocol is actually a set of...

Modbus Best Practices

Ever since the release of the Modbus protocol in the 1970's, many businesses have implemented networks based on this standard communication. The protocol itself is quite universal. This is unlike many vendor-specific...

Finding the Best Modbus Communication Protocol Device for Converting to SNMP

The telecom industry is all about connections. Users of telecom products - i.e. basically everyone - use them to connect to friends and family, clients and colleagues, and to connect those in need with those who can help. Telecom is vital. But if you're in the industry, you know that connections have to extend to all your remote equipment. You need to monitor your remote sites...

Remote Site Management Best Practices

Remote site management can feel like a fairly intimidating topic, especially if it's not the only aspect of your job. It's probably not something you have to do all the time. If you've never worked with it before, I...

Top Remote Monitoring Railway Technology Trends for 2020

As we prepare to broach a new decade, the rail industry is readying itself to achieve continued growth and meet the demands of the modern era. As infrastructure ages and technology advances, rail companies must leverage existing methods and develop new means of meeting the challenges of tomorrow. To accomplish this, rail companies must anticipate what the coming decade will mean for their business and lay the...

Monitor Colocation Sites

Colocation centers are a fact of life for many companies. It can be their only cost-effective way to operate. However, whether you own a colocation site or you just lease space inside of one, you know that the...

Server Rooms Vs Mountaintop Sites: Remote Monitoring Advice

Getting the right monitoring technology to protect your revenue-generating equipment doesn't have to be a complicated process - and it doesn't have to cost a fortune. Not all monitoring systems are created equal...

Effective Remote Monitoring in Your Security Architecture and Design

The first thing you ever designed with a security architecture may not have been too complicated. It was probably a clubhouse or tree fort, and the security consisted of a sign that said: "Keep Out". Maybe it had a skull and crossbones if you really wanted to secure the place. That's how people knew you weren't fooling around. Well, as the cost and importance of the facility...