Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition

Abstract

Since the advent of control systems, SCADA has played an important role in the field of automation. SCADA systems offer a means of controlling remotely located devices in an industrial process. Supervisory control can be combined with data acquisition wherein the data is obtained from the devices and it is processed further according to the user's needs. This paper offers an insight into the functioning of a typical SCADA system and its applications in the real world. The types of architecture of such control systems have been studied, along with an overview of the security concerns pertaining to them.