What is SCADA Technology

In this modern world of Industrialization and automation, energy plays a major role in the growth of any organization.  The utilization of energy plays an impacting and direct role in the growth of organizations like Visakhapatnam Steel Plant.

            In Vizag Steel Plant, there is a supervisory control and data acquisition system (SCADA) present for monitoring of energy networks which are present throughout the plant.  The objective of this proposed SCADA system is to monitor the energy usage and demands of various consumers of the plant and exercise effective control over their energy consumption optimum utilization of in-house energy resources.

            In this modern world of competition, the technology is changing very rapidly.  To compete with the changes and to  sustain the development, Visakhapatnam Steel Plant is going for up gradation of its existing SCADA system with the latest state of art – technology with the features like using high speed processors having cache – memory and using the powerful PLC’S(Programmable Logic Devices) controls.

            This project makes a brief study of existing “SCADA” system present in Visakhapatnam Steel Plant and the changes that are going to come to in the proposed SCADA system that is to be installed in the near future.