COPA-DATA GmbH - New DNP3 constituent supports adjustable SCADA substation integration

SCADA software innovators COPA-DATA accept developed a DNP3 (distributed arrangement protocol) aperture for their zenOn 6.2 SCADA system. This complements archetypal SCADA adept operation with bondservant operation that allows utilities to accommodate added adjustable broadcast ascendancy architectures.

Widely acclimated in the electric account industry, DNP3 provides accessible communications over a advanced bounded area. In a DNP3 network, a ascendancy allowance SCADA adept about supervises broadcast plant. zenOn has accurate this DNP3 adept functionality for several years by agency of a software driver. However, utilities are added application zenOn for substation automation, accouterment a cogent amount abridgement compared to acceptable DCS-based systems.

With the accession of the new DNP3 aperture plug-in, zenOn can address anon to a college akin authoritative ascendancy system. Because both the zenOn SCADA System and DNP3 agreement are accessible technologies the bounded substation can address to abounding altered systems acknowledging DNP3.

Open connectivity with disparate networks and abutment for DNP3 facilitates bulb modernisation. Upgrading a bounded substation accoutrement a advanced bounded across to a SCADA-based arrangement is acceptable added accepted due to the adaptability of operation and the amount accumulation fabricated accessible by the use of added economical accessible computer hardware.

Localised ascendancy is accessible with zenOn because the software is advised for reliability. Any zenOn terminal on a zenOn arrangement such as DNP3 can be called as a aback up server with a individual bang of the mouse. This advancement server is again affirmed to accept abstracts after accident should a abortion occur, ensuring the abort safe bombastic operation that is capital to electricity infrastructure.

Features amiable to bombastic ability administration ascendancy systems are axial to zenOn operation. For example, all abstracts is stored as a leash absolute the abstracts itself, zenOn automatically abacus a millisecond-accurate time brand and the abstracts status.

Data authority advice is capital because ability basement is apparent to a asperous ambiance accoutrement a advanced bounded area, necessitating bombastic systems. A zenOn server could be acclimated to adviser a amount of bombastic RTUs. If zenOn detected a advice breakdown, any abstracts accustomed would be declared invalid application the cachet bits. Invalid abstracts could be afar from archiving or trending.

International electric utilities use zenOn because it is a reliable accessible belvedere that saves admired engineering time with its complete appearance for the ability industry. In accession to DNP3, zenOn supports over 300 drivers and gateways including IEC 60870, accepted amidst European utilities. Drivers and gateways are “plugged in” to the modular zenOn belvedere accouterment absolutely accessible bell-ringer absolute operation.

COPA-DATA is the a lot of avant-garde baton in the HMI/SCADA software market. They accept become all-around trailblazers due to their ability and acquaintance acquired from the accession of added than 50,000 systems in the automotive and apparatus architecture industries, and activity and assembly plants worldwide. COPA-DATA has been developing HMI/SCADA technology at it’s address in Salzburg, Austria back the mid- 80s. With the affairs apartment zenOn® the aggregation appear the aboriginal graphical decision arrangement that ran absolutely beneath Windows. The system’s absoluteness from Windows CE up to XP has facilitated abounding affinity from the terminal up to the ascendancy room, and a adult broadcast arrangement technology.

The new bearing 6 of zenOn, with automated engineering and awful able reusability of absolute activity locations reduces engineering time considerably. In addition, COPA-DATA’s STRATON® offers an acutely adjustable IEC-61131-3 development ambiance for anchored systems and bendable logic. Together, zenOn and STRATON crop a absolutely chip solution. Today’s COPA-DATA administration arrangement has subsidiaries in Germany, Italy, France and Middle East and ally all over the world. COPA-DATA anon employs added than 100 staff, and has an absorbing applicant advertence account including companies such as Festo, BMW and Audi.

COPA-DATA GmbH
Karolingerstrase 7b
5020 Salzburg / Austria
www.copadata.com
sales@copadata.at