SCADA Systems
Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems are the lifeblood of the electrical grid. These are the information systems that collect and time stamp data from sensors at physical endpoints on the grid as well as from software applications that perform critical calculations to enable load control, demand response, and grid management. SCADA systems must have the ability to monitor an entire generation, transmission and distribution system in real time. However, the new intelligent grid systems of the future will have to do more than simply acquire and analyze data. They will need the capability to execute changes at any endpoint in real time as well. This will require fast, reliable, two-way data communications over a very secure network.
Metrum’s advanced, “IP to the Endpoint” technology provides the best solution for the next generation of SCADA systems. Metrum’s two-way, high-bandwidth, wireless solutions supports both DNP 3.0 and MODBUS, and sub-five second always-on data delivery, while also offering the reliability and multi-level security of embedded IP connectivity. Unlike other SCADA communications solutions that convert IP to proprietary radio protocols at various intermediate relay points, Metrum’s technology provides two-way IP data communications directly to and from every endpoint. And Metrum solutions don’t require huge investments in costly communications and network infrastructure. Instead they leverage the billions of dollars of infrastructure investments already made by the nation’s biggest and most successful wireless carriers.
Metrum’s advanced, “IP to the Endpoint” technology provides the best solution for the next generation of SCADA systems. Metrum’s two-way, high-bandwidth, wireless solutions supports both DNP 3.0 and MODBUS, and sub-five second always-on data delivery, while also offering the reliability and multi-level security of embedded IP connectivity. Unlike other SCADA communications solutions that convert IP to proprietary radio protocols at various intermediate relay points, Metrum’s technology provides two-way IP data communications directly to and from every endpoint. And Metrum solutions don’t require huge investments in costly communications and network infrastructure. Instead they leverage the billions of dollars of infrastructure investments already made by the nation’s biggest and most successful wireless carriers.