Foxboro SCADA Software

Overview
Foxboro® IASCADA is a world-class software application designed to enable SCADA remote site communications in the most demanding applications. It provides a scalable, secure, cost-effective operational solution for virtually any process automation system or device in use today on UNIX® platforms.

The software’s SCADA system components are arranged redundantly to support very high availability applications. Real-time object distribution and management provide object-level redundancy, as well as load sharing, in the master station. Redundant components may include front-end processor (FEP), database, calculation, history, communications, network and workstation elements.

IASCADA provides an open-systems-based, real-time control environment for the integrated enterprise. Standard interfaces provide low-risk connectivity for high-level industry applications and enterprise-wide integrated solutions.

Benefits
• Reduce engineering
• Cut costs
• Simplify industry solutions
• Enable scalability
• Provide remote access

Applications
• Oil and gas midstream SCADA
• Multi-Utilities
• Unixsystem

Features
Scalability
- Program’s modularity and distributed nature allow system capacity to grow with the enterprise
- IASCADA can scale from a single-workstation installation to large, high-performance enterprise systems

User interaction
- Users enjoy “operate from anywhere” network connectivity to SCADA database
- Each remote station has same HMI functions as IASCADAmaster station
- Operators can visualize data from a wide range of graphic displays, in multiple enhanced virtualized HMI domains
- Operators can navigate to/from each graphic
- Supervisory control is managed directly from observed display via presentation of all relevant information
- Data can be represented by multiple specialized dynamic foreground objects

Data management and application development
- Users can archive history data on Oracle Solaris zones
- An object interface library (OIL) of the application programming interface helps integrates OEM process applications, user-developed application packages and real-time data interfaces using C/C++ programming language
- Program enables open database connectivity (ODBC) to enterprise databases for corporate data exchange and personal computer desktop applications access using Structured query language (SQL)

Maintenance and support
- SCADA process monitor module runs in each UNIX workstation to supervise and report on SCADA subsystems in each machine
- Advanced support provided via Schneider Electric’s continuously current support, along with multi-control center support capability