Industrial HiVision - SCADA Server

Now that Industrial Ethernet is providing the communications infrastructure for automation processes, it is critical that the Ethernet network is supervised, in the same way and using the same tools, as the rest of the system.

In the industrial world, the de facto standard for inter-vendor communication is OPC. As an Industrial Ethernet network management platform, Industrial HiVision of course offers an OPC server function.

Unlike other products, Industrial HiVision is not a simple SNMP to OPC gateway. SNMP is used to interrogate the network devices, and the information gleaned is placed in the Industrial HiVision database. Once this information has been processed in the database by the Industrial HiVision server, it can be retrieved using OPC. This additional processing, rather than one-to-one conversion, permits absolute granularity in terms of what information is available.

If in your SCADA system you want to provide precise information about an individual network device parameter, such as link state, power supply status, link bandwidth utilisation, or current redundancy situation, that information is available. On the other hand, if you need a single tag to represent the status of all devices in one of your user-defined sub-network folders, or even one tag to represent the status of your entire network, Industrial HiVision provides this.

User benefits:

• Network information is available in the supervision application that the operator is used to.
  
• No learning curve.
  
• The network is part of the application.
  
• The level of detail / information is customised to the operator’s requirements.
  
• Fast configuration / deployment.
• The tag structure is the same as the user-defined Industrial HiVision folder heirarchy.
• Tag names are in "plain" English.
  
• Tags are available for “non-SNMP” variables (network status, folder status, etc.).
  

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