I have been exposed to Kepware a lot more in recent weeks. It is a full featured driver suite, not just for PLC communications anymore! This week in particular I have been tasked with creating over 1200 devices in a single Kepware instance. Good news! They have a REST API that can be enabled and […]
Author: Dustin Symes
Canadian Email-to-Text Addresses
Little known fact: You can email people text messages. We use it all the time on SCADA systems to provide text alerts to operators. The format is: phonenumber@providerserver. Below is a list of the servers for Canadian mobile providers. Bell Mobility/President’s Choice txt.bell.ca Fido fido.ca Koodo msg.koodomobile.com MTS Mobility text.mtsmobility.com Rogers pcs.rogers.com Telus msg.telus.com Virgin Mobile […]
BettsM SCADA Forum and Demo Day
I spent some time down in Calgary today with BettsM Controls checking out the various products they represent and sell. There are some interesting tidbits people might be interested in. Xetawave radios – These are software defined radios. One part number is good for 900Mhz, 400Mhz. They are able to stand in for a Freewave, […]
DNP3 Address Mapping on Standard SCADAPack
This month has been a great learning month. I was able to build and complete a small water SCADA system here in Canada (thanks GlobalFlow for the opportunity!) and we made the communications work using DNP3. So this system is built with SCADAPacks talking over a serial radio. Conveniently the master radio is at the […]
Fun with Red Lion DSP – Polling MC-IIIs
The Red Lion DSP is a great little unit. It has mostly the same internals as their G3 HMI line but without the display. This makes it useful as a protocol conversion box, a data collector or a simple web based remote monitoring unit using the built-in web server. BUT it has its quirks; it […]
Remote SCADA Access to Prosoft E-AFC Card
I was asked recently to build a meter template for ClearSCADA for Prosoft’s new, enhanced E-AFC card. It is a 16 run flow computer module for Allen Bradley PLCs and it comes with Ethernet for simple connections. As I started testing things I immediately ran into a wall. It did not matter which platform I […]
Use a 4102 Multi-Variable Transmitter with a Floboss 107
The past few weeks have been incredibly busy. I cannot describe it. But I decided to make some time to try out something non-standard that might save clients some money on their transmitter costs. First off I need to give a shout out to Simark Controls for lending me this new 4102 transmitter so I […]
Secure ClearSCADA WebX
This is slowly coming… the need to secure our SCADA web clients. What follows are some configuration tricks for getting WebX secure and also enabling the ‘new’ WebX to talk properly to ‘original’ WebX for the purposes of client ease of use (mostly to let them have full Mimics and Maps at the same time). […]
Setup ClearSCADA Ethernet DNP3 Communications to a SCADAPack (non-E series)
So before the weekend I posted and put up screenshots detailing how to get DNP3 configured on SCADAPack to report up to a ClearSCADA SCADA host server. What follows is the matching ClearSCADA configuration to complete the loop. These screenshots were taken with the latest ClearSCADA 2017, but should also work fine in older (back to […]
Setup Ethernet DNP3 Communications on a SCADAPack (non-E series)
Its been a good month. I recently did some ClearSCADA training and apparently I might be one of a select few who has used the DNP3 features on SCADAPack in Western Canada. If you have also used DNP3 for your SCADA project, feel free to drop me a line, correct any non-sense, or otherwise comment […]