Report - Høgskolen i Telemark
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alarms, operator actions, informational messages, reporting and tracking/auditing<br />
messages.<br />
• OPC Historical Data (OPC HDA) - Provides access to data already stored, from a<br />
simple serial data logging system to a complex SCADA system, historical archives<br />
can be retrieved in a uniform manner [20].<br />
As presented in [1], a typical SCADA application using the OPC protocol is shown Figure<br />
2-9, the purpose of OPC is to define a common interface that is developed once and then<br />
reused by the different layers of the SCADA application. The OPC server provides an<br />
interface for software packages to access data from process devices such as PLC, DCS and<br />
RTU etc. Then Figure 2-8 shows a SCADA application using different protocols between<br />
software modules. This is a classical SCADA interconnection of different software modules<br />
where a custom interface or driver for an individual software module is developed for<br />
interfacing with other software modules.<br />
Figure 2-8: A general SCADA software application with a lot of different protocols between<br />
software modules [1]<br />
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