Building-Block Concept Helps Speed-Up SCADA Installation

A newly designed supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) system that employs true distributed architecture was installed by Santee Cooper in its Distribution Dispatch Center in Conway, South Carolina. The system uses a building block concept so that the 2 basic components - an operator stat...

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Published in:Transmission & distribution world 1989-10, Vol.41 (10), p.32
Main Author: O'Neill, Diane I
Format: Magazinearticle
Language:English
Subjects:
Advantages
Case studies
Communications systems
Computer networks
Electric utilities
Users
Work stations
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Summary:A newly designed supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) system that employs true distributed architecture was installed by Santee Cooper in its Distribution Dispatch Center in Conway, South Carolina. The system uses a building block concept so that the 2 basic components - an operator station and a communications station - could be installed 3 months after the complete system was ordered. These elements formed an "Early Delivery Work Station" that allowed operators to immediately begin building cathode ray tube displays and the system database. Santee Cooper is the source of power for more than one million South Carolina residents. The new SCADA system was needed to remotely monitor and control substations in a particular division. Each communications station can accommodate up to 10 communication lines, 80 remote terminal units, or approximately 8,000-10,000 calculated points.
ISSN:1087-0849