SCADA plug-in modules and instruments for federative organisation: Application on water management

Abstract

Present paper presents an approach related to the question of structuring a federation of SCADA systems, associated with the integrated water resource exploitation, from a certain catchment area. Utilized instruments for federation development there are: (i) DESCRIPTOR component, achieving topology description - resources (roots) associated with protocols, functionality and governance rules, combined in plug-in module TOPOLOGY; (ii) Integrated Supervisor, having supervision role related to exchanges between federation partners. This plug-in application is auto-configurable and is running correlated with the TOPOLOGY modules.