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. 2022 Mar 21;22(6):2415.
doi: 10.3390/s22062415.

One4all-A New SCADA Approach

Bogdan Vaduva  1 , Ionut-Flaviu Pop  1 , Honoriu Valean  2
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One4all-A New SCADA Approach

Bogdan Vaduva et al. Sensors (Basel). .

Abstract

The main purpose of this paper is to introduce a new concept, named "one4all" in the realm of SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) systems, used by a regional company (particularly a water supplying company) for managing the different views of its users. As a secondary purpose, the paper presents an integration of such an SCADA system with a GIS (Geographical Information System) system. All the regional water supply companies in Romania manage water and wastewater networks, many sensors and actuators, dozens of water pump plants, several water treatment and wastewater plants, tanks and many hydrophores in different parts of their operating range. Due to the wide geographical operating range, an SCADA system needs to be put in place, but the management of such a system in a traditional way is hard to implement, especially when the human resource is low. The methodology presented in this paper, involving adding helper tables and dynamic template windows within an SCADA tool ("one4all" tool), will show how efficiently the human resource can be used. Additionally, the paper shows that companies as described above, can use a single SCADA system that generates different views for all the managed sub regions instead of different systems for every sub region. Implementing only one SCADA system built with the concept "one4all" in mind, and integrating it with a GIS system that is built on the same principle, represents a new approach that will bring value to any organization willing to adopt it. The concept of "one4all", implemented as a software tool for an SCADA system, is a new concept that will help any developer to easily build applications that generate different views for different users based on their permissions and their operating range. Finally, the paper presents some examples of the same concept, implemented in a different vertical (GIS) and programming language, thus presenting that a "one4all" concept is viable and helpful, bringing value to the information technology industry.

Keywords: SCADA; acquisition; multi view project; one4all; sensing system; supervision.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

Figures

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Figure 1
Schema of the “one4all” tool.
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Figure 2
Huba Control sensor type: (a) overview image of the used sensor ensemble; (b) detailed view of our sensor.
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Figure 3
Level sensors: (a) Siemens ultrasonic level sensor; (b) TL-136 liquid level transmitter.
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Figure 4
Default view for a user with Administrator role (green dots represents the status of the current operated locations/cities).
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Figure 5
Custom view for a user with Operator role. (green means that the value shown it’s within normal limits, red means otherwise).
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Figure 6
Default mobile view for both Administrator and Operator role.
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Figure 7
Comparison between invoiced and actual consumption. (The highlighted pipe network has the red color; the clients are the green dots).
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Figure 8
Dynamic template window for pumping stations.
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Figure 9
JavaScript/Angular 2+ “one4all” framework example—default view.
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Figure 10
JavaScript/Angular 2+ “one4all” framework example—edit view.
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