Article: Decreasing The Cost Of SCADA

With the ever increasing demands of regulatory reporting and security, customers are required to invest in SCADA infrastructure to monitor critical water assets. However, many customers may harbor bad memories of SCADA from past experiences. Twenty years ago remote monitoring was expensive, black-box technology; controllers were not user friendly and only manufacturers had the ability to program their proprietary system. Communication through radios or leased lines was intermittent and prone to failure.