Realflo and ClearSCADA Cross-Compatibility

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Realflo is a flow measurement application for the SCADAPack Smart RTU from Schneider Electric. 

Geo SCADA Expert / ClearSCADA includes an integrated driver for Realflo, which makes EFM management a whole lot easier. This is an extension to the SCADAPack Modbus driver for Realflo Gas Flow Computer-equipped SCADAPack controllers. A flow run object supports scheduled collection and demand polling of flow computer records: current readings, historical data (hourly, daily, event, alarm) and configuration data. Flow run data can be mapped to analog historical points in the historical database. The flow run object supports time synchronization, and allows users to initiate an orifice plate change and change to gas composition. Recent enhancements in version 6.91 add new functionality for flow computation of Liquid Hydrocarbons such as oil, condensates, and natural gas liquids (NGLs) to the existing application. The liquids functionality provides a flow computation platform on which additional upstream focused measurement applications can be built, such as Net Oil Computation (NOC), and Well Testing for allocation.

Realflo has a long history, and for many years has been tightly integrated into ClearSCADA to provide centralized configuration and device management capabilities. As the level of functionality in the Realflo platform has been improved, so has the integration within ClearSCADA to support the new functionality. The table below summarizes the matrix of support in ClearSCADA for the various releases of Realflo.

Table:

ClearSCADA / Geo SCADA Version v	RealFlo Version Number >	<5.20	<6.00	>=6.00	>=6.70	>=6.71	>=6.73	>=6.79	>=6.80	>=6.81	>=6.90	>=6.91	>=6.93	>=6.95	>=6.96	7.00	>6.70 Note 1	>6.82 Note 2	>6.70 Note 3
2015	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅  non 16-bit only	✅  non 16-bit only	✅  non 16-bit only	✅  non 16-bit only	✅  non 16-bit only	✅  non 16-bit only	✅  non 16-bit only	✅  non  16-bit  only					✅  non  16-bit  only	⚠  Hotfix 76.5745.1	✅  non  16-bit  only
2015 R2	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅				✅	✅	⚠  Hotfix 77.6807
2017	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅			✅	✅	✅
2017 R2	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅			✅	✅	✅
2017 R3	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅			✅	✅	✅
2019	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅			✅	✅	✅

Key:

⚠	ClearSCADA Version does not work with the version of RealFlo Hotfix is available.
✅	ClearSCADA works with this version.
ℹ	ClearSCADA works with this version but not all RealFlo features can be configured.

Notes:

Note 1	The following 16 bit controllers have had their features frozen to 6.70 features MICRO16, SCADAPack, SCADAPack Light, SCADAPack Plus, SCADAPack LP, and SCADAPack 100 Small Memory.
Note 2	The following 32 bit controllers have had their features frozen to 6.82 features SCADAPack 32 and SCADAPack 32P.
Note 3	For ClearSCADA 2014 R1.1, ClearSCADA 2015 R1 and ClearSCADA 2015 R2, support for flow computers newer than version 6.70 is not supported in 16-bit controllers
	ClearSCADA 2015 R2 version 77.6807 will work with flow computers newer than version 6.70 (in 16-bit controllers) but the features will be frozen to flow computers version 6.70

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  ClearSCADA works with this version but not all RealFlo features can be configured.