Aston Dane offers a broad range of proprietary SCADA systems via partner relationships.  In practice, however, the majority of shrink wrapped products have limited functionality when stretched to run as true SCADA solutions and exist mainly to service process and related industries as local HMI (Human Machine Interfaces) terminals.

Features that characterise a true Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition System are hard to find in shrink wrapped offerings. 

Alarms handling, a major requirement for a SCADA system, is often very limited and true Hot Standby redundancy capability at both server and Client level is also very rare.  Proprietary manufacturers often refer to "fail over" capability and other such euphemisms, which fall well short of true Hot Standby Capability which in practice is an extremely complex technical problem to solve and rare even on a Unix platform let alone Windows NT/2000.

Security Access, is another feature that challenges most proprietary systems.  One of the key requirements for a true SCADA solution demands layers of access tied to a range of Operational, Management and Technical personnel.  Once again in practice the security models available in shrink wrapped products fall far short of the demanding requirements of a true SCADA system.

At Aston Dane we have a wealth of Knowledge in SCADA.  Built up over the years of engineering and delivering hundreds of Solutions.

For more information contact a SCADA Specialist or go to AdJile™ solutions.