Remote Operations Devices Ideas

Teaan · ‎2020-09-21

The implementation and support of Ethernet/IP would be a great add on protocol for the SCADAPack 47x and 57x. This will allow for a great range of products supported where the client has an existing standard in place. This again ties in with DTM's where an EDS can easily be loaded and a DDT automatically created for integration.

Teaan · ‎2020-11-05

Hi, When creating large configuration for the SCADAPack 5X and probably the SCADAPack 4X it is near impossible to download the configuration over a slow communication link such as a radio network consisting of Trio M450 or similar radios. This situation is worsened if the radio network has a high utilization. Currently if a sizeable configuration with logic needs to be downloaded over a serial connection of 9600bps it take upward of 25 minutes to download with a direct serial cable link and therefore the probability of failure over a radio network with 4800bps bandwidth is extremely high A suggestion would be to allow for partial downloads to the SCADAPack. This would be suggested from Geo SCADA Expert as well as from Remote Connect. A staged download might be suggested where changes on different parts of the configuration can be indicated and only those changes downloaded to the RTU. As an example if an analog tag is added or changed then only the addition of the tag is added or if the logic is changed then only the logic is transferred. The same process can be followed with an upload which sufferers from the same problems as download. In this instance an upload can again be divided into different sections. Each section is downloaded and verified. Therefore if an upload should fail and sections have already been uploaded and completed. These are flagged as completed successfully and won't be uploaded again except if explicitly requested by the user. Regards Teaan

Teaan · ‎2020-09-10

The M580 makes use of DTM's to connect to Process drives, TesysT's etc. This allows for the use of IO Scanning registers on these devices through the use of Modbus Function Code 23 (might be incorrect code). I believe this is a key feature for quickly adding multiple Ethernet devices to the SCADAPack and help with advanced diagnostics on your Process network.

R2_D2 · ‎2021-02-01

To allow SP to load configuration upon startup when the SP is in Factory Clear mode. Similar to how it is implemented for Trio Radios. This will significantly improve deployment and maintenance of SPs in the field with no knowledge required of the software and cable connections.

BevanWeiss · ‎2021-02-25

The SCADAPack E-Series Modbus Scanner functionality allowed for Holding Registers and Input Registers to be used to store packed digital bits, and for these to still be exposed as DNP3 Binary Points without requiring any additional logic / custom code. This was a native function of the E-Series Modbus Scanner. In the x70, this functionality appears to have been lost, and now it is not possible to map digital bits in Input / Holding Registers into DNP3 Binary Points. There are a large number of Modbus devices that present all of their data in the Holding Registers, and to have to use custom code in the x70 to map these to DNP3 points is very frustrating. Even more so when the E-series RTUs did this without an issue. It seems crazy that a new RTU family (x70) would be so far less functional than the RTU that it is advertised to replace. In the Modbus Scanners dialog it should be possible to select Modbus Data Type: UINT and to select Object Type: Digital

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Remote Operations Devices Ideas

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SCADAPack 575 Partial Downloads for Slow Radio Networks

Implementation of DTM's to support Altivar Process drives and other Ethernet based products.

SCADAPack configuration via USB thumb drive

SCADAPack x70 Modbus Master/Client support for Binary DNP3 packed in Modbus Input / Holding Registers

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