SCADA LINKS TO TOPKAPI web pages
Updated: March 3rd, 2009
This page features some subjects that are of particular interest in regards with TOPKAPI SCADA Software applications. You will find here links to technical pages related to hardware, implementation, manufacturers, specific domains, etc.
For more details or questions about a particular subject, please send a mail to info-scada@areal.fr
Regarding supervision of PLCs for the control of industrial processes, TOPKAPI covers the product range of SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC, Siemens, Allen Bradley and many others. Note that SOFTLINK wizard of TOPKAPI allows to establish a link between the controllers' data and SCADA software, for example for the supervision of OMRON controllers as well as all the PLCs connected to an OPC server (the Sysmacway protocol can also be used with the Omron controllers).
SOFTLINK also handles configuration files *.scy Xtel and PL7-Pro from Schneider Electric, and *.sdf Simatic from Siemens. In the case of the workshop Unity-Pro of Schneider Electric, the link is bidirectional and allows the structured data exchange of type DDT and DFB.
Softlink is also used to incorporate In Touch applications to TOPKAPI after they have been converted by a utility program.
Regarding teleprocessing and telemetry systems in the field of water and waste, the main providers are Perax, SOFREL, Wit, Tbox, Napac, OVAL-MIRI AD2000, ACTL-EWON. If you seek alternatives to supervisor SOFREL PC500 functioning under QNX (also known under the name of Caesar), click SOFREL.
More specifically oriented towards the pumping stations, company ITT FLYGT proposes its stations MACTEC for which Topkapi is self configurable. Among the old equipment, a particular attention can be paid to DATAM FLUTEC, with many installations supervised by Topkapi; the manufacturer himself proposed during many years his Aqualix software, functioning under Unix, but this product does not evolve any more, which is not without risks: in the event of failure of the hardware it is not possible to find equipment of suitable replacement.
In the field of building automation, one finds Aritech for intrusion detection. For the regulators, find for example in the movie theaters the regulating products Sauter EYL Á330 used with equipment SOFREL via communications cards EYZ80484. For the supervision of SAUTER NOVANET networks, please display SAUTER page.
At the cinema, you will find TOPKAPI mastering energy in SET Gaumont air conditioning systems.
In fire detection applications, TOPKAPI features an open system, bringing more flexibility than manufacturers products like Synthesa or Visiodef.
Company ACT' L proposes with eWON an industrial programmable router which ensures in a native way of the functions of teleprocessing with direct connection to Internet/Ethernet TCP-IP or via telephone connections using the RAS services of Windows. This allows a mutualisation of the modem access between various applications functioning on the same computer.
For the redundancy, the testimony of the company Atys Co makes it possible to measure the simplicity of implementation of the Topkapi solution.
In architectures using the Remote Client Stations, as of 1994 we gave a report on the use of our technologies. This technique has many advantages, in particular very fast reaction times, a low use of the band-width and easy implementation.
Advantages and disadvantages of the
GPRS wireless solutions: The
maturity of the GPRS system has made it suitable for use as a transport medium
for remote monitoring of utility assets such as pipelines, dams, pumping
stations and where network flow and pressure measurement is required across a
wide area (e.g. district or nationally).
NEWS
A short return in the past enables you to note that certain advanced functions were proposed with Topkapi as early as of the Hanover fair in 2001 (see Hannover Fair 1).
Much noise made around "concepts" of Architecture of factory data management led us to carry out a small comparative table of the functions of Wonderware's Industrial Application Server compared to supervisory/SCADA In Touch and TOPKAPI. In the same way, one should not be confused about the concepts attached to the MES systems: MES requires a "system" approach rather than a "product" one. What leads a distributor of MES products to affirm: "With the supervision, we sell products. With xxx (MES product), we sell technology. It is a very other step ". At Areal, we adhere to the idea that selling MES is a change to another state of mind, and this is why we chose not to disperse us in this way. As for "selling technology", technology is as well in Topkapi as in cellular phones, and whatever you sell, you get to know what you sell, not only technology for technology...
Updated Supervision Specification is now available at SCADA Specs
For memory, note the charts relating to the version 16 bits, from now on obsolete in Chart its 16 bits and Carte France Telecom 16 bits
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