Supervisory Control and Data Acquisitions (SCADA) systems have revolutionized the power industry since their inception, giving owner/operators unprecedented visibility into powering their power ...

At Inductive Automation’s Ignition Community Conference (ICC) 2022, changes to the executive team announced this past summer were addressed up front. While Steve and Wendy Hechtmann will remain with ...

For smaller municipal utilities and co-ops, it can be a challenge to upgrade and automate existing distribution substations and support infrastructure due to constraints in space, budget, labor, ...

As manufacturers push for greater flexibility, virtualization and artificial intelligence are reshaping the software-defined automation market. Global technology intelligence firm ABI Research ...

While both human machine interface (HMI) and supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) technologies connect humans with equipment, HMIs tend to be local to a machine, allowing a user to ...

SCADA systems have long played a role in the power sector, managing and monitoring various processes and equipment in traditional power-generating settings. Now, the changing landscape of energy ...

The U.S. Department of the Interior’s USGS agency reports that there are about 67,000 large (utility-scale) wind turbines in operation in the United States. These thousands of wind turbines are ...

Two vulnerabilities found in industrial control system software made in China but used worldwide could be remotely exploited by attackers, according to a warning issued on Thursday by the U.S.

Microsoft today added two new recruits to its Secure Development Lifecycle (SDL) -- a SCADA and smart-grid supplier and the government of India. The software giant named the latest adopters of its ...

Some of the vulnerabilities could allow attackers to access systems with ease. Patches are not available for all the flaws. The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) published ...

Adam Stone writes on technology trends from Annapolis, Md., with a focus on government IT, military and first-responder technologies. Little-known fact: The power plant able to generate the most ...

All of this can be accomplished with the use of a SCADA system within the automation process. However, none of these functions are available if the system is not designed with a reliable power source ...