SCADA of the Future

Kelly Doran, Industry Solution

Architect

Agenda
SCADA 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 Trends
Control Room Management
Roles and Responsibilities
Adequate Information
SCADA Displays, Safety Points, Point-to-Point
Back-up System Testing
Shift Turnover

Fatigue Mitigation
Alarm Management
Change Management
Operating Experience
Training
Compliance Validation
Compliance Deviation

CRM Driver of Change

CRM 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

Reduce Clutter?

Less Noise
Less Alarms
Less Color
Less Animation
More GIS
More Security
More Monitors

SCADA Trends
Adequate Information Legacy HMIs

SCADA Trends
Adequate Information Redesigned for Vigilance

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

Evolution of the SCADA

architecture

Rally or Muster Systems

Hot
Operationa
l

Replicate to

MCC

BCC

Backup and
Other Stations

DistribuSys
Modes,
Privileges,
Datasets

Hot
Ready

Rally or Muster
System

Hot
Op.

Hot
Op.

Stations
RTUs

Evolution of the SCADA

architecture

Rally or Muster Systems

Failed

Replicate to

MCC

BCC

Backup and
Other Stations

DistribuSys
Modes,
Privileges,
Datasets

Hot
Operationa
l

Rally - Muster
System

Hot
Op.

Hot
Op.

Stations
RTUs

Operational Intelligence &

Analytics

Reactive to Proactive

Real-Time Root Cause

Analysis To Solve The
Problem
Operational
Analytics

Real-Time Reporting
Operational
To Identify & Detect Intelligence
Inefficiencies,
Opportunities or
Threats

Continuous
Exploration of Past
Business Performance
Business
To Drive Planning
Analytics

Business
Delivery of Past
Intelligence Business Information

Based On Consistent
Metrics

SCADA and Analytics

Competitive Advantage
Competitive Advantage

Whats The Best That Can Happen?

Optimization

What Will Happen Next? (Machinery Failure)

Predictive
Modeling

What If Trends Continue?

Why Is This Happening?

Forecasting
Statistical
Analysis

Notification
Alerts What Action Is Needed? (Check HVAC)
Query
Drilldown
What Is The Cause of The Problem? (Temperature)
Ad Hoc
How Many, How Often, Where? (Top 5 Sites Energy Usage)
Reports
Standard
What Happened? (Daily Energy Usage)
Reports

Degree of Intelligence
Degree of Intelligence
Analytics & Intelligence Are Complementary

Intelligence Analytics
ComponentComponent

Evolution of the SCADA

architecture
Build Out of Test & Development
Systems
Recognized best practice
Early T&D systems were a copy of just the realtime SCADA

Historical servers where added

Modern T&D systems are now fully
distributed SCADA system with all the
replicated, redundant systems
RTUs and PLCs were added so that polling
and protocol changes could also be tested

Evolution of the SCADA

architecture
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

architecture

Adoption 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

Evolution of the SCADA

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

architecture
Log 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 realtime 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-todate 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
technology

GIS in the Control Room

Using 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 Change
CRM 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 Databases
Multiple 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 Enforcement
Automatic 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

The Evolution of Cloud Computing

Hosted
Applications

Operator Training
Liquids SCADA
RWIS
Weather
Forecasting/Load
Forecasting
W/W Solar Co.
Leak Detection

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Computing Technologies
Continuing Performance Improvements
64 Bit Computers/OS
Solid State Drives
SQL 2012 (Performance and Analytics)

Storage Area Networks (SANs)

Readily accessible archived data

Untethered Keyboard & Mouse

Circadian Lighting

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Computing Technologies
Virtualization
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 SCADA

What was science fiction in the recent past is

now reality. Next generation HMIs 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 3D
providing the most realistic representation
of
remote equipment and related
information as
technologically possible

Future SCADA
Domestic 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
Kelly.Doran@telvent.com