From the course: Learning SCADA: Collect, Analyze, and Visualize Data for Industrial Automation

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An overview of the different software used for SCADA

An overview of the different software used for SCADA

- [Instructor] SCADA software helps in connecting to field devices, controllers, and equipment to facilitate the process of having real-time data monitoring. But again, SCADA is more than just a software. SCADA is a system. It is a collection of both software and hardware components. In this video I will give you an overview of the different software used for SCADA systems. I'm not doing any comparison between them. My intention is to introduce you to some of the software available in no particular order. And keep in mind, in general, each manufacturer in industrial automation has a SCADA system for their products. Ignition software is by Inductive Automation. It is an industrial automation software platform that has a user interface that can be designed for SCADA system to show process data in real time. Ignition software is the software I'm going to use in this course. I'm going to explore it in detail in chapter three,…

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