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Schneider Electric announced the release of ClearSCADA 2017 with location services and integrated mapping functionalities. ClearSCADA 2017 is focused on helping to enhance insight and control for customers managing geographically dispersed operations, particularly those within the upstream oil & gas, water and wastewater sectors.
Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) adoption, coupled with broader economic, political and environmental developments, are driving market demand to better standardize technology adoption, enhance security protocols, and improve predictive analytic capabilities. These market forces are particularly impacting the management of remote assets, critical infrastructure and operations personnel spread over vast geographical areas.
ClearSCADA 2017 addresses these challenges with embedded location-based alarming and filtering, overlaid with real-time weather data and GPS mapping. This functionality provides insight into asset performance with alarming and graphical interfaces consolidating and transforming real-time process data into business critical information, helping to improve control and efficiency in, for example, telemetry and remote SCADA applications.
Key features and functionalities of ClearSCADA 2017 include:
- Location Support – helps to improve clarity of asset position and status via location-based alarming and filtering, with asset locations displayed on integrated maps
- Integrated Mapping – facilitates selection of online map sources, ArcGIS map information, and/or Web Map Service (WMS) information, or other GIS, weather and other real-time information
- Active Directory User Access – centrally manage ClearSCADA users and permissions through Active Directory (AD) with new User Accounts created automatically on logon when using AD Authentication
ClearSCADA offers tight integration with Schneider Electric Telemetry platforms yielding significant operational and maintenance advantages. Hardware integration capabilities within ClearSCADA 2017 include centralized configuration and deployment of SCADAPack-E, RealFlo, RealLift Solutions and diagnostics for the Trio-Q Data Radios.
ClearSCADA uses industry standard protocols to interface with third party telemetry hardware platforms, and also provides OFS (OPC Factory Server) communication with new and legacy Schneider Electric hardware and that of other vendors.
The release of ClearSCADA 2017 follows the 2015 R2 performance and scalability focused release of software formerly referred to as “StruxureWare SCADA Expert ClearSCADA.” ClearSCADA was rebranded to help strengthen its alignment within the Schneider Electric HMI/SCADA software portfolio.
Keywords: Infrastructure Management, Industrie 4.0, Remote Assets, Security Protocols, Predictive Analytic, ARC Advisory Group.