The 8th International Conference on
Computer Science & Education (ICCSE 2013)
April 26-28, 2013. Colombo, Sri Lanka SaB3.7
Remote Access of SCADA with Online Video
Streaming
Dr. Syed Faiz Ahmed
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, Dr. Hazry Desa
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, Dr. Fahad Azim
3
, Ammar Surti
4
, Waqas Hussain
5
1,2 Universiy Malaysia Perlis, Malaysia, 3,4Hamdard Universiy (FES), Pakistan
50yegin Universiy, Turkey
syed[aizJunimap. edu. m, hJunimap. edu. my, faha. azim@hamdar.edu, ammarqsJhotmail. com,
waqas. hussain@ozu. edu. tr
Abstract--- Owners of industries traveling around the
world need some system from where they can monitor and
keep control of their industry remotely. Speedily
advancing sotware technologies have made it possible to
develop a new generation of Supervisory Control and
Data-Acquisition (SCADA) system. This generation of
SCADA is known as PROPOSED SCADA SYSTEMS.
This paper present a concept of how industrial and
commercial areas can be monitored and controlled via
SCADA system from anywhere in the world on supported
portable devices. Through Remote access of SCADA, the
Remote Desktop Protocol (ROP) brings SCADA real-time
and passes information to users. The presented solution
provides reduced sotware costs while improving
reliability. The system also allows Open Process Control
(OPC) linkage between the controller and SCADA
systems. An additional monitoring approach in this system
is lP CAMERAS based online visual monitoring. Life
videos of the industry and commercial area can be viewed
from anywhere in the globe on the portable devices. The
proposed concept is simulated on two prototype industrial
plants 1) An automated Car Wash System and 2) Load
Cell based luggage segregation. Proposed system was
tested on simulator and show remarkable results.
Keywords- SCADA, IP Cameras, Industrial Process,
Remote Access, PLC
I. INTRODUCTION
The architecture of a SCADA system changed with the
attitude of computing in organizations, rom mainrame
dominated, centralized computing systems to network-based
distributed computing in the early 1990s [ 1]. Supervisory
Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems for data
handling, controlling and monitoring control processes has
shown a considerable growth
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over the last years including
industrial and commercial areas. The current trend in SCADA
for remote monitoring and control is to use the wireless
communications resulting in a decrease wired systems. This
enhances and expands the usability, utility and useulness of
SCADA.
In this paper, concept is developed for live video monitoring
and controlling the system processes rom anywhere in the
world. This particular approach is taken mainly due to the
large and common usage of portable computing and
communication devices in everyday use. Another key concept
is the usage of an Ethernet element that provides the SCADA
to be connected over the network to provide web based
interface for easy to use with worldwide coverage.
An Internet/Intranet and SCADA system interconnection
based on communication standards is offered as a solution.
The interconnection allows linking between SCADA system
and authorized users. Web server rom the company Internet
linked to the SCADA system permits users to easily access to
SCADA data. Users access that information via Remote
Desktop Protoco I.
Security, portability and low cost of RDP based sotware;
administration and managing are provided by the presented
solution.
This also regards the whole SCADA system as a Web-based
application. This adds more lexibility and scalability to the
system and allows the system to beneit rom all available
Intenet technologies
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The remainder of this paper is organized as follows. Section II
deines the problem solution in detail. Section III comprises of
the basic information about SCADA systems and OPC server.
Section IV deines the proposed concept design for a Web
based SCADA system and tools for live video monitoring.
Two simulation plants described for implementing
PROPOSED SCADA unctions are shown in Section V, and
Section VI provides a conclusion.
II. PROBLEM DEFINITION
Nowadays every industrial and commercial process needs
control system; it can be either by means of old relay
technique or by using highly advanced electronic controllers.
With this necessity in mind, comes the requirement of
monitoring and controlling of these processes rom remote
locations, for which SCADA systems were introduced.
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