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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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