| The processes that the SCADA system monitors | | | | the process thus sending them to the control |
| may include the facility, infrastructure or the | | | | commands. |
| industrial based processes. The industrial processes | | | | There has been some ongoing confusion between |
| may encompass the power generation, refining, | | | | the supervisory control and data acquisition |
| production, fabrication and manufacturing. These | | | | system with the distributed control systems. |
| techniques may operate in discrete, batch, | | | | Basically the SCADA does not have direct control |
| continuous or repetitive modes. Facility processes, | | | | over the processes but it refers to the system |
| on the other hand, include facilities such as ships, | | | | that coordinates the processes thus indirectly |
| airports, space stations, private and public facilities. | | | | covering the system as well. The aroused |
| They manage the consumption, access, energy | | | | confusion may be due to the new |
| and HVAC. | | | | telecommunications technology that aids to enable |
| Another process comes under the supervisory | | | | low latency communications, high speed and |
| control and data acquisition system is the | | | | reliability. Disregard of the distinctive differences |
| infrastructure processes. They can either be the | | | | between the two systems, they can be |
| public or private infrastructures, including the | | | | eliminated as they are to be determined culturally. |
| wastewater treatment and collection, water | | | | In fact, the differences will become less significant |
| treatment and distribution, transmission, civil | | | | when communication infrastructures of higher |
| defense siren systems, electrical power | | | | capacity are made available. |
| distribution, gas and oil pipelines as well as the | | | | As a matter of fact, there are solutions in the |
| huge interaction systems.There are multiple | | | | SCADA system containing the constituents of |
| subsystems often present in the SCADA system. | | | | distributed control system. Easy logic processes |
| There is the apparatus that provides users all the | | | | are effortlessly executed without involving the |
| processed information and the process of passing | | | | master computer due to the presence of a |
| through this human operator's alert monitoring is | | | | smart PLC or something called the Ladder Logic. |
| named the Human-Machine Interface (HMI). | | | | They are block programming languages usually |
| Besides, there presents a supervisory system | | | | used to create programs running on RTU or PLC. |
| that has access to all the needed details regarding | | | | |