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City Of San Marcos Selects Northstar Utilities Solutions’ Metersense Mdm
May 10th, 2010 | 
Author: OTTAWA – NorthStar Utilities Solutions, a division of Harris Computer Systems, is pleased to announce that the City of San Marcos has signed an agreement to acquire their MeterSense Meter Data Management (MDM) solution, to further advance the City’s smart metering project.
“We evaluated several Meter Data Management solutions and MeterSense came out on top,” said Tom Taggart, Director of Public Services. “MeterSense gives us strong and flexible validation plus configurable workflows to automate manual tasks. We’re confident that it will allow us to streamline our processes and get the maximum benefit out of our AMI system – in terms of both customer service and cost control. ”
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Scada Methods The Best Solution For Process Monitoring?
Although many people will in no way of heard of the SCADA program you could have been using 1 for a while. A minimum of in some kind of way. Mostly used in industrial situations where they require process monitoring across local and remote locations. Remote locations could be just down the road or span entire continents. Recent moves in network technologies and in particular the web have meant that there may be a large uptake within the use of SCADA systems.
Changes in the network protocols that run the web, increased speeds and protection have meant that the expenses to entry in to SCADA have been greatly reduced. Although this also signifies that there are concerns over the protection of utilizing SCADA methods for process monitoring. Of course whilst there is the potential of difficulties like these occurring modern software program and networking technologies are working to keep SCADA systems secure.
Tags: Smart Grid Cyber Security
The vision of the smart grid is to break down barriers between transmission and distribution, communications and back office systems to create a fully integrated network that provides diagnosis and resolution of problems as they arise and enables real time exchange of information between the utility and its customers.
Although smart grid security regulations and standards will continue to evolve as smart grid technology develops, utilities cannot afford to wait until standards are finalized to begin developing their smart grid implementation strategy and plan.
Human-Machine Interface Design for Process Control Applications-Aarksrore Enterprise
Ideal for users and designers of industrial control and monitoring systems, this book provides an easy-to-use, yet effective, method to configure, design, and validate human-machine interfaces (HMIs). Such systems include distributed control systems (DCSs); supervisory control and data acquisition systems (SCADAs); and stand-alone units.
This book also discusses the overall HMI design process; how that process relates to system design; detailed design methods, principles, and rules for individual displays and groups of displays; and integrating both software-based and hardwired HMIs
Etx And Kepware Opc Products – Sa Instrumentation And Control
eTX and Kepware OPC products – SA Instrumentation and Control
November 2009 eTX Data Services specialises in data-logging and data historian application developments. Its niche area of expertise in the larger MES and ERP markets is the physical hardware and software connection to the plant, processes and machinery. This enables the initial access to raw data. After it has been logged and archived, it can then be made available to people, software applications and information systems for inspection and analysis.
In-house skills include panel building, on-site wiring and connections, PLC programming, scada configuration, radio telemetry, GPRS telemetry, SMS alarm, warning and notification, database design and management and Web or office network based report development.