While the Industry 4.0 revolution has gained momentum and many organisations are exploring new ways to leverage IoT with expectations to enhance business processes and overcome existing challenges, there are many questions people have around IoT implementation with the existing infrastructure. At present the burning questions in the market include “will IoT replace Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) in a new era?” “What does this mean for existing processes?” “What impact does interconnectivity have on security?” “How do we maintain security?”
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Today the SCADA market is projected to grow by 6% by 2022,
which is influenced by the integration of IoT environments, and industrial
control systems becoming more digitised and automated. However, the progression
of 4th generation IoT SCADA systems brings new challenges for operators, with
some even predicting that as IIoT and Edge Computing develop and become
increasingly fundamental in industrial applications, they may entirely replace
SCADA systems.
SCADA is much like IoT. Yet IoT, the shiny new technology, is developing faster than anything we’ve seen in recent years. Instead of replacing SCADA though, these technologies will add new capabilities to SCADA platforms, as they can contribute to strengthening industrial communications, improving plant efficiency and performance whilst reducing downtime.
So, SCADA systems are still predominant within heavy asset
industries. With three generations of SCADA – standalone, distributed and
networked – working alongside new tech.
To better understand how these technologies are being used in existing SCADA systems we take a look at how three Australian organisations, Coliban Water, Shell QGC and Coopers Brewery are harnessing modern SCADA system capabilities to increase efficiency and network security.
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